Why ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ Went to Extreme Lengths to Make You Like Its New Killer Santa

Why ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ Went to Extreme Lengths to Make You Like Its New Killer Santa

Mike Nelson unpacks how Pixar movies, "Frailty," and more influenced his new holiday slasher for Cineverse, starring Rohan Campbell as killer Santa.

“The Fun We Were Able to Have with Just a Blood Cannon” — Interview: SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT Director Mike P. Nelson on Billy Chapman Slaughtering Nazis

If there’s one scene you’d hope to bring us all together for the holidays, it’s Billy Chapman and his axe going to war with Nazis in the remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night. Needless to say, it’s a real crowdpleaser of a scene. Nobody full of hate is safe in the sequence—as Billy dispenses his own curious sense of judgment. In the hands of Mike P. Nelson, this is a different Billy Chapman (Rohan Campbell). There’s a touch of fantasy to his jour…