#SILENT NIGHT BLOODY NIGHT (1972)

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On October 3, 1981, Silent Night, Bloody Night was screened on Elvira's Movie Macabre.

Here's a new drawing of Mary Woronov!

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Candy Darling in Silent Night, Bloody Night aka Night Of The Dark Full Moon (1972)

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Silent Night, Bloody Night, 1972

Dir. Theodore Gershuny

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Night of the Dark Full Moon (Silent Night, Bloody Night) (1972) Theodore Gershuny

December 19th 2024

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W A T C H I N G

[goryhorroor]

What are some underrated horror films? I have watched all the popular ones and need more! Thanks!

mentally prepare yourself because im ready to give a gumbo list (this has been sitting in my inbox because i had to ask all my friends and this is the list we came up with):

curse of the demon (1957) the serpent and the rainbow (1988) paranoiac (1963) the old dark house (1932) countess dracula (1971) golem (1920) haxan (1968) island of lost souls (1932) mad love (1935) mill of the stone women (1960) the walking dead (1936) the ghoul (1933) tourist trap (1979) the seventh victim (1943) ganja & hess (1973) dead of night (1945) a bay of blood (1971) let's scare jessica to death (1971) alice sweet alice (1976) the deadly spawn (1983) the brain that wouldn't die (1962) all about evil (2010) black roses (1988) the baby (1973) parents (1989) a blade in the dark (1983) blood lake (1987) solo survivor (1984) lemora: a child's tale of supernatural (1973) eyes of fire (1983) epitaph (2007) nightmare city (1980) slugs (1988) death smiles on a murderer (1973) intruder (1989) short night of glass dolls (1971) the children (2008) alone in the dark (1982) end of the line (2007) the queen of spades (1949) the housemaid (1960) tormented (1960) captain clegg (1962) the long hair of death (1964) dark age (1987) the crawling eye (1958) the kindred (1987) the gorgon (1964) wicked city (1987) baba yaga (1973) 976-evil (1988) bliss (2019) decoder (1984) amer (2009) the visitor (1979) day of the animals (1977) leptirica (1973) planet of the vampires (1965) lips of blood (1975) berberian sound studio (2012) a wounded fawn (2022) matango (1963) the mansion of madness (1973) the killing kind (1973) symptoms (1974) morgiana (1972) whispering corridors (1998) dead end (2003) infested (2023) (this just came out but im adding it) triangle (2009) the premonition (1976) you'll like my mother (1972) the mafu cage (1978) white of the eye (1987) mister designer (1987) alison's birthday (1981) the suckling (1990) graveyard shift (1987) messiah of evil (1987) out of the dark (1988) seven footprints to satan (1929) burn witch burn (1962) the damned (1962) pin (1988) horrors of malformed men (1969) mr vampire (1985) the vampire doll (1970) contracted (2013) impetigore (2019) eyeball (1975) malatestas carnival of blood (1973) the witch who came from the sea (1976) i drink your blood (1970) nothing underneath (1985) sauna (2008) seance (2000) come true (2020) the last winter (2006) night tide (1961) the brain (1988) dementia (1955) don't go to sleep (1982) otogirisou (2001) reincarnation (2005) mutant (1984) spookies (1986) shock waves (1977) bloody hell (2020) the den (2013) wer (2013) olivia (1983) enigma (1987) graverobbers (1988) manhattan baby (1982) evil in the woods (1986) death bed: the bed that eats (1977) cathy's curse (1977) creatures from the abyss (1994) the dorm that dripped blood (1982) the witching (1993) madman (1981) vampire's embrace (1991) blood beat (1983) the alien factor (1978) savage weekend (1979) blood sisters (1987) deadly love (1987) playroom (1990) die screaming marianne (1971) pledge night (1990) night train to terror (1985) the devonsville terror (1983) ghostkeeper (1981) special effects (1984) blood feast (163) the child (1977) godmonster of indian flats (1973) blood rage (1980) the unborn (1991) screamtime (1983) the outing (1987) the being (1983) silent madness (1984) lurkers (1988) forver evil (1987) squirm (1976) death screams (1982) jack-o (1995) haunts (1976) a night to dismember (1983) creaturealm: demons wake (1998) the curse (1987) daddy's deadly darling (1973) nightwing (1979) the laughing dead (1989) the severed arm (1973) the orphan (1979) not like us (1995) prime evil (1988) the monstrosity (1987) dark ride (2006) antibirth (2016) iced (1988) the soultangler (1987) twisted nightmare (1987) puffball (2007) biohazard (1985) cameron's closet (1988) beast from haunted cave (1959) the she-creature (1956)

[ladamarossa]

Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)

[bitter69uk]

“Mary Woronov burned herself into my brain when, as a college student in 1966, I first saw her smouldering, imperious performance in Andy Warhol’s epic film Chelsea Girls. She was one of the most original, stylish and articulate sexual personae of the royal House of Warhol. I never forgot her, and I followed her subsequent movie career with great fascination … Warholism, which is my philosophy as a critic, merged the visual and performing arts and closed the gap between high and popular culture. Thirty years later, it can be clearly seen that the Warhol Factory, with all its riveting decadent excesses, was as seminal an avant-garde circle as that of the Dadaists and Surrealists after World War I in Paris.”

/ Camille Paglia from the back cover blurb on Mary Woronov’s 1995 autobiography Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory /

Born on this day (8 December 1943): insolent Warhol Superstar turned queen of cult movies, actress, writer, visual artist and recovered amphetamine enthusiast … Mary Woronov! I love the strikingly angular Woronov’s deadpan performances, resting bitch face and witheringly contemptuous voice in Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972) (recommended Christmas viewing), Death Race 2000 (1975), Rock’n’Roll High School (1979), Eating Raoul (1982) and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989). (I just recently caught Woronov in the apex of lurid 1980s exploitation cinema, Hellhole (1985) (tagline: “CAPTIVES … stripped naked. Forced to submit to the ultimate experiment … pray they don’t succeed!”). Even in a cast including Edy Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Williams and Dyanne Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS Thorne, Woronov totally dominates as – what else? – the sadistic villainess). But hell, Woronov is even great value doing guest spots on episodes of Charlie’s Angels (1976) and Murder, She Wrote (1985). One of the best things she ever did was play the mother in punk band Suicidal Tendencies' 1983 video “Institutionalized” (“All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me”). Pictured: cute couple! Woronov with Lou Reed, when she was one of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable stage dancers.

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okay fine, great big horror-ish movie recommendation time

DISCLAIMER: this is not a list of only good or only scary movies this is a list of movies i think are either fun or interesting with the intention of not just listing the top 50 of all time (there will be some standards on here but if you want only good movies it's a very different list and you've seen most of them) this is more like you walk into a video store i somehow have and this is what i have put on silent on the tv. As with most horror check for content warnings before viewing

Barbarian 2022

Skinamarink 2022

Malignant 2021

Spree 2020

Mandy 2018

Creep 2014 - Creep 2 2017

WNUF Halloween Special 2013

[REC] 2007

Silent Hill 2006

The Descent 2005

Saw 2004

The Others 2001

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust 2000

Ravenous 1999

Event Horizon 1997

From Dusk Till Dawn 1996

In the Mouth of Madness 1994

Ghostwatch 1992

Candyman 1992

Tremors 1990

Re-Animator 1985 - Bride of Re-Animator 1990

The Lair of the White Worm 1988

Slumber Party Massacre II 1987

The Evil Dead 1981 - Evil Dead II 1987

A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors 1987

Hellraiser 1987

TerrorVision 1986

The Company of Wolves 1984

Something Wicked This Way Comes 1983

The Monster Club 1981

My Bloody Valentine 1981

Possession 1981

Nightmare City 1980

Tourist Trap 1979

Phantasm 1979

Eyes of Laura Mars 1978

Suspiria 1977

Hausu 1977

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats 1977

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 - Shock Treatment 1981

Deep Red 1975

The Stepford Wives 1975

Black Christmas 1974

Madhouse 1974

The Wicker Man 1973

Don't Look Now 1973

Flesh for Frankenstein 1973 - Blood for Dracula 1974

The Blob 1958 - Beware! The Blob 1972

The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971

The House That Dripped Blood 1971

Viy 1967

The Haunting 1963

Carnival of Souls 1962

The Innocents 1961

House on Haunted Hill 1959

Plan 9 from Outer Space 1957

The Night of the Hunter 1955

[shoeboxasylum]

In case you have nothing to watch for the holidays, here are 41 Underrated and Obscure Christmas movies.

You're welcome~ 🍬🎄❄️

Family Friendly:

Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (Rankin/Bass 1985)

The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold (Rankin/Bass 1981)

Year without a Santa Claus (Rankin/Bass 1974)

The town Santa forgot (Rankin/Bass 1993)

Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) --- know what I mean, Verne? (I miss this man...)

Elf Bowling the Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike (2007)

Blue Toes the Elf (1988)

Olive, the other reindeer (1999)

Annabelle's Wish (1997)

Santa's apprentice (2010), Santa's Apprentice and the Magic Snowflake (2013)

The Tangerine Bear (2000)

Older kids and families:

Fred Claus (2007) — Hits different if your an older sibling

Elf-Man *starring Wee Man!* (2011) — Elf comedy

Santa Conquers the Martians (1964) Rifftrax version (2014)

Santa and the ice cream bunny (1972) Rifftrax Version (2010)

A Christmas Karen (2022) — cliche but kinda cute and funny

Nostalgic Honorable Mention Specials:

He-man and She-ra: A Christmas Special (1984)

Christmas Comes to Pacland (1982)

The Smurf's Christmas Special (1982)

Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish (1990)

Power Puff Girls: Twas the Fight Before Christmas (2003)

Ed, Edd ‘n Eddy: Jingle Jingle Jangle (2004)

Billy and Mandy Save Christmas (2005)

The best, worst and most underrated movies I can find so far:

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) — Santa slasher

Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) — Zombie musical for the holiday season

All American Christmas Carol (2013) — white trash Christmas carol

Scrooged (1988) — Bill Murray carol

Deck the Halls (2006) —Danny Devito and Christmas lights

The Big Gift (2022) —Egocentric Santa Vs. Parents

Rare Exports: a Christmas Tale (2010) — wtf Finland?

Cadaver Christmas (2011) — Hilariously low budget holiday zombie flick

Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) — Robot Santa kill spree

Christmas Evil (1980) — Santa slasher

Monsters!:

Christmas zombies (2020) —elves and zombies

Santa claus vs the zombies (2010) — low budget fun

Werewolf Santa (2023) — self explanatory

Santa Claus is a vampire (2016) — self explanatory

Santastein (2023) — should be obvious

Krampus vs Bigfoot (2023) — christmas drugs are a hell of a sci-fi

Santa jaws (2018) ---Sharks. It's Asylum ‘nuff said

Jack Frost (1997) — Evil Frosty

Killing tree (2022) — it's literally a kill-happy Christmas tree

Nutcracker Massacre (2022) — cursed nutcracker slasher

[horror-in-my-veins]

Holiday horror movies part 7

Nightmare Beach -1989- Easter

Noc Walpurgis -2015- Walpurgis Night

Outback Vampires -1987- Christmas

Pontypool -2008- Christmas

Red Christmas -2015- Christmas

Red Clover -2012- St. Patrick’s Day

Return of the Living Dead -1985- Independence Day

Santa Jaws -2018- Christmas

Seance -2006- Thanksgiving

Silent Night, Bloody Night -1972- Christmas

[onewizardgirl]

Molly?!

The only older girl lily could turn to. Little does she know...

The loveable Lily evans, a young girl attending hogwarts in 1972, friends with pureblood Molly Prewitt, was currently panicking.

it seems that the gryffindor courage has left her right now, but any gryffindor girl woud've had her courage drained when met with the sight that was before Lily right now.

the poor girl had gotten up to use the bathroom at about one in the morning according to the clock on Lily's nightstand, when in the dim light created by a candle on the wall revealed Lily's underwear, a typical pink and blue floral pattern was stained crimson with lily's blood.

Lily had no clue what to do, all she knew was her period had just started for the first time ever in her 12 years of life.

Lily would've rather not gotten her period in the dead of night but, she did and now she had to figure out what to do. not wanting to bother her teachers who were obviously sound asleep in their own personal chambers, the only thought she could think of that might help would be to wake Molly in the 5th year girls dorms and ask her to help.

Lily thought to herself and considered the likelyness of Molly being able to help her. She was older, a girl as well, likely knew more about periods than Lily did, had things to handle the blood with, and was nearby, and just a short hallway down from Lily.

So as silently as she could, the young redhead made her way down the hallway. The 5th year door creaked but Lily was silent, she tiptoed into the room toward Molly's bed, the second to the left. She knew this was Molly's because on the nightstand next to it lay two knitting needles and a bundle of yarn that quietly continued knitting a scarf.

"Molly? Molly! Wake up," Lily whisper yelled at the ginger. Molly stirred awake quickly and saw the second year she loved like a sister.

"Lily? What the bloody hell are you doing awake? Come on, cuddle up and we can go back to bed." Molly said lifting the blankets up, inviting Lily to climb underneath

"About that molls, i need your help, i just got my period for the first time and i haven't the slightest idea what to do," Lily explained her voice warbling ever so slightly from her emotions.

"Well why didn't you say so? Come on, I'll get you set right in no time love, then we can go back to bed and sleep in, tomorrow is saturday afterall" Molly said sitting up quickly and dragging Lily to the bathroom in the 5th year dormitory

As Molly and Lily entered the spacious bathroom Molly saw the back of Lily's nightgown

"Scourgify," she whispered making the blood vanish.

"Now, d'you know how to put a pad on?" Molly asked

"No," Lily said blushing a light shade of pink

"No problem lilyflower, i can show you, just give me a moment to get some clean underwear for you, ok" molly said exiting the bathroom,

Lily's dorm was far darker than the 5th year dorms, but that mattered not, since a whispered "accio lilys green underwear" and she had her hands on Lily's underwear without even needing to look.

"Right then," Molly said reentering the bathroom where Lily was still in the same spot molly left her, nervously playing with a small piece of her hair that had fallen out of its braid.

Molly squatted and got a pad from under the sink, and kneeled infront of Lily, who was sitting on the toilet.

"So, after you unwrap the pad like this, you peel it off the backing and stick it here like a sticker, then you take this bit of paper off the wings and fold them around so the pad stays in place as you're walking around, this one’s got two sets of wings since its meant for nighttime, other ones will usually only have one set of wings on them." Molly explained, showing Lily what she meant as she explained everything.

"So daytime ones are smaller?" Lily asked trading her bloodied underwear for the clean ones with the pad in.

"Yeah, the night ones are bigger since you're laying down and shifting in your sleep and sometimes while you sleep the blood can go further back than when you're awake," Molly said before apparating Lily's bloody underwear back to her dorm to let the house elves take care of them. Every girl knows the house elves are miracle workers at getting blood from their favorite garments when an unexpected surprise ends up leaving a stain.

"Go on and finish up here, I'll be waiting in my bed," Molly said letting Lily have a bit of privacy.

Molly sat on her bed and waited only a minute until Lily had emerged from the bathroom and walked to Molly's bed.

Molly drew the curtains and tied them closed, she then cast a silencing ward over her bed so as to not wake the other girls in the room from hers or Lily's obnoxious snoring. And finally tucked herself and Lily into bed with a whispered promise of a long talk tomorrow just to make sure Lily was well informed of any questions she may have had.

By the time breakfast came the next morning the girls were sleepily cuddled together when Molly's wand began glowing and acting as an alarm clock.

Molly woke up and cast her finishing spell and got Lily awake as well. When she untied her curtains and opened them her friends, Alice, Sadie, and Mary all looked at her bed and the extra person.

"Morning girls, I haven't missed breakfast have I?" Molly asked jokingly.

"No, but why is there a 2nd year in with us?" Mary asked pulling on her hoodie.

"oh, this is Lily. She's one of my closest friends and kind of like the little sister I never had. She's in with us because sometimes whether it's a nightmare or something else she'll come and cuddle with me to feel safe. Usually I can sneak her out before you wake up." Molly explained.

"oh, that's really sweet mols. Can we hang out today, like us four with Lily too?" Alice asked.

"I don't know girls, it depends if Lily's up for it, she had a bit of a rough night. She got her first period and didn't know what to do," Molly explained after Lily had gone to dress for the day.

"poor thing, if she's not up for walking around we can camp out up here in the tower and only go down for meals." Sadie said. Molly looked at Mary and Alice and they both nodded in agreeance.

"I'll ask her if she'd like to do that, and I think if you girls would like we can start being like big sisters to her. She doesn't really have anyone to lean on, she's so sweet but often ends up alone." Molly told

When Molly found Lily again she proposed the idea to the younger ginger and smiled when she gave an eccentric yes.

Through the day Lily became very close to Molly's friends and had a whole dorm of 5th year girls to look out for her.

Hope you enjoy ❤️

[fruitchouli]

Silent Night, Bloody Night, dir. Theodore Gershuny (1972)

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Silent Night, Bloody Night, 1972

Dir. Theodore Gershuny

[frankendykes-monster]

I forgot if I've seen Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) or not because of the fact that I watched Christmas Evil (1980) and Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972) last year. I can't keep track of these fucking things.

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Movie Review | Silent Night, Bloody Night (Gershuny, 1972)

Mild spoilers in the second paragraph.

If you're looking for a Christmas horror movie, this certainly fits the bill. As far as the Christmas goes, there's some pretty nice lighting, in or away from the presence of Christmas lights, while the interior scenes have a very cozy brown look, let's call it the Hot Cocoa aesthetic, the kind of colour scheme you just want to curl up in. As far as the horror goes, the violence is surprisingly gnarly, more blood and severed limbs than you'd expect. So the movie certainly does justice to the second part of the title, with all the blood and what have you, but maybe not the first part, given all the screaming in pain characters do as they're being killed.

After we see a man burned to death in flashback, the plot moves to a lawyer played by Patrick O'Neal who comes to town with his girlfriend played by Astrid Heeren so he can sell the creepy old house now belonging to the son of the guy who burned to death. You'll notice right away that his girlfriend is a few decades younger than he is, but before you chime in to criticize the age gap, I'll have you know that ***SPOILERS*** both of them get horrifically murdered a third of the way in. So I hope you'll think twice about criticizing their relationship. Let us exercise some tact. Let us remember them fondly, instead of lecturing their corpses about the "half your age plus seven" rule. ***END SPOILERS***

Anyway, this is gonna be the weirdest fucking thing I've ever written here, but Astrid Heeren's eyebrows are like cute little caterpillars. I don't even like caterpillars, but the point is that her eyebrows are pretty striking. And she's not the only one in the cast where that's the case. Mary Woronov and James Patterson, the latter of whom looks like he could be the lovechild of David Hess and Jean-Paul Belmondo, have some pretty striking eyebrows too. So the casting director probably had a thing about them.

Anyway, I wouldn't call this a lost classic, but I enjoyed it. It's nice and cozy and bloody, and there's also the off-kilter tone to the affair, thanks to the weirdly deadpan performances by most of the cast, but in particular Woronov and Patterson. And there's some stuff that anticipates another Christmas horror classic, like the POV scenes and creepy phone calls, so you can turn it into a double feature if you're in the mood.