The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Silent Night, Bloody Night on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 9:15 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.
Silent Night, Bloody Night
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In Brief: 'Tis the season for holiday horrors with the THPS, so for the next three Thursdays we'll be showing a selection of seasonal slashers sure to sate the sadists. We're kicking things off with the film that started this surprisingly replete subgenre, 1972's Silent Night, Bloody Night. This may well be one of the earliest examples of the slasher film, and would go on to influence everything from Bob Clark's classic Black Christmas (which we'll be screening later in the month) to the giallos of Fulci and Argento as well as the early output of John Carpenter and Wes Craven. But beyond its horror pedigree, Silent Night, Bloody Night also harbors arthouse aspirations as evinced by homages to Hitchcock and Welles and the presence of Warhol Factory mainstays Candy Darling and Ondine. It may not be a perfect film, but its atmospheric creepiness and gothic setting are on par with any of the slasher movies that would follow and its influence on '70s horror cinema as a whole is certainly beyond question. Could there be any better way to get into the Christmas spirit than with this obscure and underscreened progenitor of postmodern gore?
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| Genre: | Slasher Horror |
| Director: | Theodore Gershuny |
| Starring: | Mary Woronov, Patrick O'Neil, James Patterson, Astrid Heeren, Ondine, Candy Darling, John Carradine |
| Rated: | R |
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