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Silent Night, Bloody Night
Directed by Theodore Gershuny197285 min
On Christmas Eve a grandson inherits a New England mansion that used to be an asylum — and the town starts dying. Theodore Gershuny’s 1972 proto-slasher, written with Jeffrey Konvitz (later The Sentinel), is an early holiday horror: locked rooms, old sins, phone calls in the dark, John Carradine as the half-blind newspaper man. Mary Woronov and Patrick O’Neal anchor the living; Warhol Factory faces (Candy Darling, Ondine) flicker among the inmates. Shot on Long Island, released by Cannon, with a young Lloyd Kaufman among the producers. Gloomy, cheap, and a few years ahead of the Christmas slasher boom, it is the silent night that isn’t.
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On Christmas Eve a grandson inherits a New England mansion that used to be an asylum — and the town starts dying. Theodore Gershuny’s 1972 proto-slasher, written with Jeffrey Konvitz (later The Sentinel), is an early holiday horror: locked rooms, old sins, phone calls in the dark, John Carradine as the half-blind newspaper man. Mary Woronov and Patrick O’Neal anchor the living; Warhol Factory faces (Candy Darling, Ondine) flicker among the inmates. Shot on Long Island, released by Cannon, with a young Lloyd Kaufman among the producers. Gloomy, cheap, and a few years ahead of the Christmas slasher boom, it is the silent night that isn’t.
- Director
- Theodore Gershuny
- Year
- 1972
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Genres