Sometimes the holiday season can just be a little too sweet. It’s why stories like How the Grinch Stole Christmas endure, or movies like Bad Santa find success – not everyone wants to gulp down saccharine sentiments at Christmastime.
Enter Violent Night, in which David Harbour plays a murderous Santa Claus. Borrowing heavily from Die Hard and Home Alone (both of which are name-checked), and utilising every Christmassy saying and pun, throw in some extra bloody kills, and voila: a holiday actioner for the gore-hounds.
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Summary:
Can't decide whether it wants to be naughty or nice, and ends up being neither.
