Silent Night, Bloody Night

An early 70's independent proto-slasher psychological thriller/mystery, that despite it's low-budget, manages a few solid flashes of maybe being a decent genre flick. However for the most part, the movie is just a dull, tedious, garbled mystery that fells like part "Black Christmas"(1974) and part "The Changeling"(1980), but instead boring and bad. Unfortunately, the film is more notable for its cast of Warhol regulars and proto-slasher flair, rather than being much of an entertaining watch.

Could have been rather good with proper editing and some overall polishing.

Pretty average horror movie not of much note. The main dude actor was pretty creepy though.

Quite a bit better than I was expecting, there are a few goofy nonsensical parts but nothing too terrible. The ending felt rushed and twist didn't work.

wake me up when its over. boring snoozefest with real choppy audio just to make it even more painfull to sit through

Not that bad, really, but you can tell that this was a troubled production

Interesting, low-budget pre-_Halloween_ holiday maniac movie. Imaginatively done despite budgetary limitations, with a couple of gory killings, a haunting sepia-toned flashback featuring Andy Warhol regulars Darling and Ondine, and good turns from Woronov, Carradine, and O'Neal in the Janet Leigh role.

A few nice visual flourishes here and there (the jerky sepia-toned flashbacks really look like they were filmed in the early 1900s), with a convoluted and murky storyline to match the horrid print. I probably missed something somewhere but I also don't see what this has to do with Christmas, and how do you put John Carradine in a movie and not give him a speaking part? Was that supposed to be a joke?

Gershuny keeps the audience right on the edge of its seat with the suspense, and adds some class in his deft handling of some flashback sequences.