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Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) KILL COUNT is the one hundred and twelfth video of The Kill Count.
Overview
In 1971, 5-year-old Billy Chapman and his family go to visit a nursing home in Utah where his catatonic grandfather stays; when Billy remains alone with him for a few minutes, his grandfather suddenly awakens and tells Billy to fear Santa Claus, as he gives presents only to the children who have been good all year, and punishes the ones who have been naughty, no matter how briefly. While driving back, a man dressed in a Santa outfit seemingly has car trouble and gets Billy's family's attention. As they pull over to help, the Santa-clad criminal shoots the father with a pistol. He forcibly removes the mother, attempts to rape her and slashes her throat with a switchblade. Billy runs off to hide, leaving his baby brother Ricky in the car.
Three years later, in December 1974, 8-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Ricky are celebrating Christmas in an orphanage run by Mother Superior, a strict disciplinarian who persistently strikes children who misbehave and considers punishment to be a "necessary" and "good" thing. Sister Margaret, the only one who sympathizes with the children, tries to help Billy play with the other children, but Billy is constantly subject to Mother Superior's scrutinizing eyes and regularly punished. On Christmas morning, the orphanage invites a man in a Santa Claus suit to visit the children; Billy gets dragged by Mother Superior and he punches the man before fleeing to his room in horror.
10 years later, in the spring of 1984, Billy turns 18, and leaves the orphanage to find a normal life, and obtains a job as a stock boy at a local toy store, thanks to Sister Margaret. At the store, he develops a crush on his co-worker Pamela; he has sexual thoughts regarding her which are often interrupted by morbid visions of his parents' murders. On Christmas Eve, the employee who plays the store's Santa Claus has been injured the night before and as a result Billy's boss Ira Simms makes him take his place. After the store closes, the staff has a Christmas Eve party. Billy, still dressed in a Santa Claus suit, tries to have a good time at the party, but he keeps having memories of his parents' murders, causing him to feel depressed. At one point, Billy sees his co-worker Andy Neal making out with Pamela and they both walk into the back room. Billy walks after and hangs Andy with Christmas lights Billy ends up killing Pamela with a utility knife.
A highly intoxicated Mr. Simms goes into the back room to check on the noises he heard, and Billy kills him as well as his manager Maria Randall before leaving.
As Sister Margaret arrives she sees Mrs. Randall's dead body, screams in horror, and returns to the orphanage to seek help via telephone. Meanwhile, Billy breaks into a nearby house where a young couple named Denise and Tommy are having sex, and a little girl named Cindy is sleeping; Billy then impales Denise on a set of deer antlers and throws Tommy through a window. When this awakens Cindy, Billy then confronts her and asks her if she has been nice or naughty; she says she has been nice, and he gives her the utility knife he had used earlier. After this, he witnesses bullies picking on two sledding teenage boys and decapitates one of the bullies with his axe as the other screams in horror.
The next morning, the orphanage is secured with Officer Barnes and Captain Richards aided by Sister Margaret, who knows that Billy has committed the murders. The deaf pastor, Father O' Brien, who was dressed in a Santa outfit, is mistakenly shot by Barnes upon coming forward, mistaking him to be Billy. Barnes is then axed by Billy while distracted. Due to his Santa outfit, Billy gains access into the orphanage and confronts Mother Superior, now in a wheelchair. She taunts Billy due to her disbelief in Santa Claus and just as he prepares to kill her with his axe, Richards appears and shoots him in the back, much to Sister Margaret's shock. As the dying Billy lays on the ground, he utters to the nearby children "You're safe now, Santa Claus is gone." before succumbing to his wounds. As the children gather around, Ricky, coldly staring at Mother Superior, utters "Naughty".
Deaths
Counted Deaths
- Liquor Store Clerk - Shot 3x by Santa criminal - 9 mins in
- Jim Chapman - Shot by Santa criminal - 11 mins in
- Ellie Chapman - Throat slit by Santa criminal - 12 mins in
- Andy - Choked to death w/ Christmas lights - 44 mins in
- Pamela - Torso slit open w/ boxcutter - 46 mins in
- Mr. Simms - Hammer claw to the head - 47 mins in
- Mrs. Randall - Shot through back w/ arrow - 50 mins in
- Denise - Impaled through back on deer antlers - 56 mins in
- Tommy - Strangled, beaten, thrown out of window - 59 mins in
- Mac - Decapitated w/ axe - 1 hr 6 mins in
- Father O' Brien - Shot 3x in the back by Officer Barnes - 1 hr 11 mins in
- Officer Barnes - Hacked in chest w/ axe - 1 hr 19 mins in
- Billy Chapman - Shot 2x in back by Captain Richards - 1 hr 21 mins in
Non-Counted Deaths
- Snowman - Broken into pieces