Violent Night
When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.
- Released: 2022-11-30
- Runtime: 111 minutes
- Genre: Action, Comedy
- Stars: David Harbour, John Leguizamo, Beverly D'Angelo, Alex Hassell, Alexis Louder, Edi Patterson, Cam Gigandet, André Eriksen, Alexander Elliot, Mitra Suri, John B. Lowe, Sean Skene, Vance Halldorson, Thomas Lorber, Adam Hurtig, Ron Borges, Adrian Persad, Marc-André Brisebois, Dylan Rampulla, Maxime Laurin
- Director: Tommy Wirkola
Comments
- serahserah - 6 May 2024
A delightful romp
A delightful romp with one of the best death scenes I have EVER SEEN and I LOVE horror and gore.
Now I just have to write words to use up word count. Because let's face it IMDB not every movie is some deep intellectual discourse on the state of society that requires a deep review.
Some movies are just fun like Violent Night. With a simple plot and nothing much more than that plus some really good violence. So to end the word count I am just going to list actors from the film. David Harbour as Babbo Natale. John Leguizamo as Jimmy the sad little boy who grew up to be a terrorist. Alex Hassell who is oddly hot despite his weird face. VICTORY IS MINE! Dumb word count! - siavashahi - 24 January 2024
Hard to watch
It was hard to watch. Ravish: bad acting. How it got 6.7 point! Was it made for kids? No it had a lot of violent, so I'm sure it wasn't made for life's maybe it is made for retired people? To make them to believe in Santa! Not a good way to make grown up people to believe in Santa.
The worst family ever! To show they are reached there were a tree in any corner.
I Just wanted to know where it goes and it gets bad and bad and bad and bad to the worse.
And didn't they just break the son' finger!
Oh I just want to throw up! Kill me please Come one! You don't need to make a movie just to make. Movie. - Coventry - 29 December 2023
HO HO HO Holy Mother, that was fun!
Isn't it fantastic when everything you love nicely comes together? Especially around Christmas! What I like to do most during the holiday period is watching at least one - preferably more - Christmas horror movies, but the two mainstream non-horror Christmas movies that I've seen the most (that everyone has seen the most, for that matter) are "Die Hard" and "Home Alone".
"Violent Night" may not be a genuine horror movie, but it's excessively violent for sure, and - moreover - it's a love letter to the two aforementioned cinematic Christmas landmarks! Tommy Wirkola, who brought us the refreshing "Dead Snow", goes mainstream with this thrill-ride of an actioner about Santa Clause - the real one - battling a small army of evil scoundrels and protecting a cute girl and her rotten wealthy family during a heist/home invasion. It's not very original, it's not particularly sophisticated, but it sure is a lot of fun.
Certain ideas and gimmicks in the script are genius, like Santa having a Viking background, the casting of Beverly D'Angelo as a loathsome hag of a matriarch, or the killing of thugs with Christmas attributes like candy canes or electric lights. Other parts are clichéd and/or sentimental (but mandatory), like the overlong "true meaning of Christmas" conversations, but that's just a minor default. The "John Wick" type of battle in the bar is déjà-vu but nonetheless exciting, especially because it's to the cheesy tones of Bryan Adams' "Christmas Time". There are other jolly great songs on the soundtrack, like from Slade and Burl Ives, and a great role for John Leguizamo as über-villain "Scrooge". - Vivekmaru45 - 8 January 2023
First, check out Deadly Games 1989 and thank me later.
Now that's done, back to THIS awful mashup. It's Die Hard or Commando or Rambo mashed up with old Kris Kringle. David Harbour returns from Hellboy 3 in a new role as "The father Christmas".
Well the transition from Hellboy 3 to Santa shouldn't be too hard for him because he's got a good sense of humor. So what to expect from this flick? We have the Christmas spirit, we have Santa against the bad guys, we have the expectations of getting Christmas presents from Santa. Wait! Also as an added bonus we have BOTH Beverly D'Angelo John Leguizamo. You won't ever see a combination of these three ever again so enjoy it while it lasts.
Do I recommend this as a family Christmas movie? No. These has some violent scenes, hence the title.
There are plenty of good Christmas movies to see like Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 1984 and How The Grinch stole Christmas. A Christmas Story 1983 and Christmas on Division Street 1991. Not to forget the first two Home Alone movies. - KingMarg - 6 January 2023
Santa in a way you've never seen him before
This was amazing they put Santa in a whole different red spotlight. Very gruesome, brutal but beautiful. Anyone who enjoys over the top violence and blood in fight scenes should love this movie. Acting was overall fine especially good from the villain of the movie, you don't expect a Robert De Niro performance from this type of film. The plot is good and the humour is very nice. I also really liked the title it's a playoff from the Christmas song Silent night I assume. This is in my opinion a great film. You can sit down and watch this with your family, your dads and uncles will probably enjoy this. This is a great movie to watch whether it's a Friday with a pizza or Christmas Eve night. I will definitely be making this a Christmas Eve special from now and I recommend you do as well. - sweetcakesmomma - 4 January 2023
Better then expected
I expected this to be just another corny Christmas movie. We get so many these days that I don't even make it to the end. It actually hit all my Christmas joy bells & whistles TY! Alittle humor,alittle violence and omgoodness I'm gonna say it... alittle sexy *blush* I wasn't a big fan of the actor before this and I am on a normal basis, repulsed by facial hair but ... my tree toppin stars... hammer swinging Santa makes me hotter then cocoa. Ho ho ho ! I would love to see a second movie next Christmas. Give alittle more funny maybe ( not corny ) but surely Santa sees plenty go down in his eves of adventure. Can't wait ! - otetubiu - 2 January 2023
Potentially a Christmas Classic
This is easily my favorite Christmas Movie ever The title does nothing to give away the excellent joy and laughter that the movie brings They were able to match the magic of Christmas and Santa with the craziness, naivete and vulnerability of life and humanness Harbour is a genius, the chuckles and the laughter, I felt like Santa was in the room The other characters were beautiful in their own way, but the standout obviously was the Kid with her throwback Home Alone moments. I laughed and clapped when the shenanigans ensued What a movie, what a show they put on.
Amazing amazing amazing. I would watch this again. - cheapbird-58418 - 1 January 2023
Die hard IS a Xmas film......
Definitly worth a watch! David Harbour is an awesome Santa...played the role super well!
The film overall was about 20 mins too long and stretched out, too much padding out in the middle of the film when not necessary, however, was still good!
It's basically Die Hard 2 but the question of "Is it a Christmas film?" Is totally non questionable! This is definitely a Christmas film!
Good characters. The story line not too silly, but silly enough to entertain and create chuckles. Nothing out there and unpredictable, good easy watching christmas film.
I would watch again and recommend to others. - absurdlystrangedimension - 30 December 2022
its actually perfect
Ive not watched a great xmas horror in so many years, this film should have a perfect 10. David harbour is perfect for this role, i cant imagine anybody else playing santa and i just love the backstory of jolly saint nick, a viking warrior that was very bad himself and was cursed to be santa basically, the violence in this film is on john wicks levels, so much gore in this flick, perfect mixture of magic and mayhem and a very heart warming ending, has elements of home alone in it too, this is probably going to be one of them films i will watch every xmas now :D i love horror films, its my favourite genre, i loved the film fatman with mel gibson, that film is so great, but THIS film is perfect. The visuals, the story, the acting, its all spot on, i saw a few negative reviews which just proves how boring some people are, these poeple do not watch a film to enjoy it, they all want brownie points on their reviews, they only watch them to review not to enojoy, it just shows you that they probably wouldnt be able to enjoy any film. - gazelle444 - 29 December 2022
LOST, Movie with no identity
I had low expectations of this movie in the first place, Boy was i wrong.
It's not funny, infact it was boring at best.
There is no doubt in my mind that anyone who rated this better than 5 was paid to rate this garbage.
This thing called a movie lacked any direction, It went from semi serious to ridiculous at will, It was like watching several movies cut into one randomly.
Government Security forces could use this to extract any information from anyone easily using this rubbish, Trust me when you have seen it once your not going to watch it ever again.
It was weeks ago i cringed through this movie and just seeing an advert for it made get on here just to bag it.
Now sit back and every 15 mins pause it (assuming your not dumb enough to go pay to see it) are you ready to confess to something you may or may not have done yet!?
