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The Changeling S1E1: First Comes Love

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W A T C H I N G

[brokehorrorfan]

Violent Night will be released 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray and Digital) on November 7 via Universal. The 2022 Christmas action comedy comes from the producers of John Wick.

Tommy Wirkola (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Dead Snow) directs from a script by Pat Casey & Josh Miller (Sonic the Hedgehog). David Harbour stars with John Leguizamo, Cam Gigandet, Alex Hassell, Alexis Louder, Leah Brady, Edi Patterson, and Beverly D'Angelo.

Violent Night is presented in 4K with HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director Tommy Wirkola, producer Guy Danella, and writer Pat Casey and Josh Miller

Santa’s Helpers: The Making of Violent Night featurette

Quarrelin’ Kringle featurette

Deck the Halls with Brawls featurette

Deleted and extended scenes

When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound taking everyone inside hostage, they are not prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus. David Harbour stars as St. Nick, delivering some serious season’s beatings to save the family and the spirit of Christmas.

Pre-order Violent Night.

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WATCHLIST 2022: Violent Night

[richdadpoor]

LaKeith Stanfield on New Horror Show

With a limited amount of pre-press happening for new shows right now due to the strikes, this “Inside Look” featurette teasing Apple TV+’s The Changeling may be one of few tidbits you can watch before the show arrives September 8. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing for this eerie adaptation of Victor LaValle’s novel, starring LaKeith Stanfield and Clark Backo as a couple facing a terrible,…

[wornoutspines]

The Terminal List (S1 Review) | Entertaining but Still a Bit Off

Re-watched S1 of #TheTerminalList and as interested as am still for a S2 the tweaks in S1 were just OK even with the cast's great performances. #TVAdaptation #BookToTV #TVReview #PageToScreen #ChrisPratt #JackCarr

I like a good action thriller, and when there’s a military and or spy element to it I’m more eager to check it out. So I was excited when I heard that one of the books on my TBR was being adapted. The Terminal List is based on the book series and the first book in said series written by former Navy SEAL Jack Carr. The series was adapted by David DiGilio and stars Chris Pratt, Constance Wu, Taylor…

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Copshop

Palkkamurhaajagubbea kuset housussa pakeneva nutturatukkagubbe päätyy selliin. Luulee olevansa siellä turvassa pahalta maailmalta. Ahihi. Pian porukkaa alkaa lappaa ineen ovista ja ikkunoista.

Aivot narikkaan toimintarämistely. Hieman liian venytetty pit��äkseen otteessaan.

2/5

[fromthestacks]

Violent Night

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Violent Night 2022

[gameofthunder66]

-watched 12/7/2023- 3 [1/2] stars- on Amazon Prime

DAVID HARBOUR as Santa Claus in Violent Night (2022)

[ratleyland]

My last Christmas movie for 2024

Never knew a movie about a Bad arse Santa Clause saving a family's Christmas from the bad guys would be such a good watch.

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Now Playing: Universal Pictures "Violent Night" (12/2/2022)

It was only a few short months ago when I discussed the Universal Pictures release “Violent Night” with the Official Trailer (seen HERE ICYMI) and today the film is out for all to enjoy for the upcoming holiday season. Of course that’s only if your holiday season includes Santa Claus kicking some major villain behind when they try to ruin Christmas. When I discussed the trailer I pointed out how…

[hannahwatcheshorror]

VIOLENT NIGHT (2022)

Violent Night plays out like Die Hard meets You’re Next but leaning much more into the Christmas aspect of Die Hard. It is technically marked as an action comedy as well as a thriller but I count it as a horror because how terrifying a scenario to have everyone around you killed and suddenly you are a hostage but the only person able and willing to help you out is saying that he is the actual Santa Claus? Some scenes played like a slasher movie, I swear my mom had to cover her eyes! A very fun and different addition to your regular Holiday Haunts!

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Our movie begins with a very disenchanted Santa, the poor guy has had it with Christmas and everyone's lack of spirit. We also meet a family of very rich people who don’t seem to get along very well but who really cares about them because back to Santa who is in that house delivering gifts when suddenly everyone there is being held hostage! Dun dun dun! Santa barely escapes with his life and he has a choice to make, help the family out, or just flee, and Santa goes back in! He wants to save the little girl who is on the nice list even though her family seems like they would all be on the naughty list, especially her father who stole the money from his mom but we will get to that in a bit.

Turns out Santa used to be a war hammer toting baddie so he makes the baddies pay in a big, big way. Seriously, the shed scene was wack and a half. Santa has been around a long time and married to Mrs. Claus a long time and wants to get back to her in one piece so needs to dispose of these naughty folk and help this family post haste so he can get Christmas back on track! Anyway around now the baddies find out that the little girl's dad stole the money they want to steal so they are REALLY mad. They break the group up for no real reason but plot (I guess) and to make the bad guys easier to kill.

We get to see some Home Alone style traps that were much more deadly (but then again, how not-deadly were the Home Alone traps really?). A little girl smokes a grown man with a simple trap setup and it was honestly pretty funny. Next Santa comes to the rescue after the traps slow down the girls would-be killer. Then there is a firefight, a little chase, and finally it is Santa against the big Baddie, the Christmas Hater himself! Santa is able to take him down with a little Christmas magic but not before he is shot! But it is okay! Because everyone believes he is Santa! So that magically makes him heal! Okay! Christmas!

This was cute, fun, gory as hell, and very scary in some moments because I genuinely thought that the little girl (or Santa) was going to die! The bad guys were very, very bad so that is why I have this review on my horror blog. Violent Night was just that, an extremely violent evening and that is why it is one of my Holiday Haunts.

[brokehorrorfan]

Violent Night will be released on Digital on January 20 followed by Blu-ray and DVD on January 24 via Universal. From the producers of John Wick, the 2022 Christmas action comedy is currently available on PVOD.

Tommy Wirkola (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Dead Snow) directs from a script by Pat Casey & Josh Miller (Sonic the Hedgehog). David Harbour stars with John Leguizamo, Cam Gigandet, Alex Hassell, Alexis Louder, Leah Brady, Edi Patterson, and Beverly D'Angelo.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director Tommy Wirkola, producer Guy Danella, and writer Pat Casey and Josh Miller

Santa's Helpers: The Making of Violent Night featurette

Quarrelin' Kringle featurette

Deck the Halls with Brawls featurette

Deleted and extended scenes

When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound taking everyone inside hostage, they are not prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus. David Harbour stars as St. Nick, delivering some serious season's beatings to save the family and the spirit of Christmas.

Pre-order Violent Night.

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Copshop (2021) was co-written and directed by Joe Carnahan. Joe was born in Sacramento and has 16 director credits from 1998, to this, his most recent.

His other notable credits include The A Team. His 20 writing credits include Smokin Aces.

[romilly-jay]

Once Again*, On The Topic of Deja Vu

[*Could Not Resist This]

***spoilers***

So, watched this one relatively soon after the latest re-watch of Tony Scott's Deja Vu. That movies was in the back of my mind when part of the three-way dialogue at the top of the second act touched onto the concept of Deja Vu (link and below, there's a presumably unofficial transcript online, no dialogue attribution to specific characters but does capture the key dialogue and action sequences)

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/copshop-2021-transcript/

Deja vu.

That’s not deja vu, dummy.

Yes, it is.

No, it’s not. Deja vu is when you experience the exact same thing a second time. Or the sensation that you have.

Why are you taking his side?

How the fuck am I taking his side?

You said that your great-grandfather had to fight, that he was overrun and he had no choice, like me, sitting right here. Deja vu.

Okay, whatever. You win.

Wouldn't have described myself as the ideal target audience for this movie, based on the poster and blurb, BUT, I was persuaded to watch it and - to my surprise - I enjoyed it (on the whole) VERY much. Would have preferred it to go a little lighter on the violence but the (spoiler) callous and abrupt dispatching of all the minor characters over the course of the movie is a feature I'd certainly vote to retain.

100% the reason I was initially drawn into this story was the performance of Alexis Louder as rookie cop Young. To chime in on the review (link below), IMO she MORE than held her own, strong as Gerard Butler and Tony Grillo clearly are whenever they're on screen:

But the reason I wanted to write about this movie was the strange - and quite effective - isolation bubble atmosphere. The very few "crowd" scenes (a bar-type fight and a shootout) take place outside and the film restricts itself to a very small number of locations.

Most of the action is in some part of the titular Cop Shop - lots of different spaces but often only 2-3 actors in any scene and often with extended scenes that are dialogue-focused and static. Two of the really important set pieces, for instance, take place inside the lock-up, with the two male leads locked up in cells on opposite sides of the room and, in the second of these scenes, the female lead sitting by the door in the corridor space between them.

It really had the feel for me of a low-budget movie - and to be fair, yes it was, although its original $10m ish budget was //quadrupled?// when GB came on board. BUT there was something else going on and anyone who has checked the film's information will already know what it is... and it's that the shooting took place during the final months of 2020 aka in the heat of the Covid pandemic. Frank Grillo talks about this at the beginning of his interview w Screenrant:

No big moral - just interested by how strongly (IMO) the constraints of the moment have shaped not just the way the movie came into being but also the way the movie continues to "feel".

Personally, I found the claustrophobia and isolation appropriate to the story the movie was telling even if it pushed some of the choices in a more extreme direction e.g. the tendency to keep all the scenes down to 2-3 people and mostly just 2 people, the choice to kill people with very little preamble, so that they are dispatched from the scene.