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Cineverse’s ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ Reboot Punishes the Naughty With Official Poster
This Christmas… you’d better be good. Bloody Disgusting’s parent company Cineverse is punishing the naughty with a brand new vision of slasher classic Silent Night, Deadly Night on the big screen in late 2025, and the first official poster has been unleashed this afternoon.
The poster was created by Creepy Duck Design. Check it out below!
Additionally, Deadline reports that Studiocanal’s new genre label Sixth Dimension has “picked up global rights excluding North America,” with Cineverse releasing in North America.
Directed by Mike P. Nelson (Wrong Turn, V/H/S/85), Cineverse’s Silent Night, Deadly Night goes into production this Spring and will slash into theaters in late 2025.
A reimagining of director Charles E. Sellier Jr.’s original 1984 slasher classic, Silent Night, Deadly Night centers on a young boy who witnesses the murder of his parents at the hands of a man dressed as Santa, only to grow up and become a killer himself. Haunted by trauma and fueled by a twisted sense of justice, he puts on the Santa suit and punishes the naughty.
“Blending psychological horror, brutal slasher thrills and a touch of the supernatural and, shockingly, a sprinkle of romance, the new film hopes to deliver a modern new take on the ultimate holiday nightmare.”
Written and directed by Mike P. Nelson, the reboot is produced by the original 1984 Tri-Star film’s producers Scott Schneid and Dennis Whitehead. The executive producers include Jamie R. Thompson, Anthony Masi and Steven Schneider. Erick Opeka, Yolanda Macias, Brandon Hill and Brad Miska will serve as executive producers for Cineverse.
When it was released in 1984, the first Silent Night, Deadly Night quickly became the most controversial movie of the year. It was followed by four sequels, which frequently strayed from the original storyline and Christmas theme altogether, as well as a remake in 2012.
It’s been eight years since Ari Aster came onto the scene and helped usher in a new wave of horror with Hereditary, one of the rare horror movies from the past ten years that still seems to come up in conversation every single week. And it’s back in the conversation this week, with Ari Aster revealing at an event that he’s already written a prequel to Hereditary!
Ari Aster was on hand at the American Cinematheque for Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair last week, a Los Angeles festival that screened all of Aster’s movies to date. The website Gold Derby reports that Aster revealed the Hereditary prequel script during a Q&A at the event, and you can watch the full Q&A conversation below for confirmation on the website’s report.
“I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster told the crowd, referring to Hereditary. “It never feels like the right time to do it. It’s a prequel, not a sequel so I don’t know where this goes.”
Would a potential Hereditary prequel dig deeper into the mythology of demon king Paimon? Unfortunately, Aster provides no further details on his prequel approach at this time.
Aster said of Hereditary during the same Q&A, “I was just trying to make a really good horror movie.” I think most horror fans would agree that he more than accomplished that goal, and the past eight years have proven that Hereditary is an enduring classic of its generation.
We celebrated the fifth anniversary of Hereditary here on BD back in 2023.
Ron Breton wrote, “Hereditary offers a similar emotional resonance to this new generation of horror – my generation of horror– as movie-goers in the seventies when they first saw Exorcist. Much like Aster’s film, we see the incomprehensible evil wear the face of a young girl; the victim of a raw deal she had no say in, as it tears a family to its core. Sure, both films offer so many terrifying visuals that can make the hair stand up on anyone’s neck – but it also depicts intense relationships and emotions that are tangible. Real. Familiar.”
“In that familiarity lies the uncanny, ready to rear its ugly head and force us to confront thoughts and horrors laying dormant and clawing at our psyche,” Breton continued his 5th anniversary celebration of Hereditary. “And it doesn’t matter if it’s been five or fifty years. These horrors are always there, as we become pawns in its horrible, hopeless machine.”
Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, and Milly Shapiro star in Hereditary. In the film, “A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.”
That’s putting it mildly, eh?!
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