"Buried beneath the blood-soaked Santa suit, Silent Night, Deadly Night has something a lot of slasher films lack — a unique identity, and thus cult film status."
—Salon.com
Billy Chapman, who was traumatized by his parents' Christmas Eve murder, then brutalized by sadistic orphanage nuns, grows up to dress as jolly St. Nick for a yuletide rampage to punish the naughty.