Silent Night, Deadly Night is a 2025 slasher holiday film written and directed by Mike P. Nelson. It’s the second remake of the 1984 film of the same name after the first remake in 2012, as well as the seventh overall installment in the series. Silent Night, Deadly Night premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 21st, 2025 and was released in the United States by Cineverse on December 12th, 2025. 

On Christmas Eve, eight-year old Billy Chapman is traveling by car with his parents when the vehicle stops on a remote road, a man dressed in a Santa costume approaches and murders Billy’s parents in front of him, leaving him alive. The killer is later revealed to be Charlie, a Janitor working at Billy’s Grandfather’s care home. Years later, Billy is living a transient life, moving between towns and avoiding long term-relationships.

As Christmas approaches, Billy begins to hear a disembodied voice that identifies itself as Charlie. The voice urges Billy to “punish” people that it deems “naughty” and directs him to follow a ritual linked with an advent calendar, instructing him to kill every day leading up to Christmas. Billy carries out the murders in a Santa costume to hide his identity. 

Rohan Cambell as Billy Chapman 

Ruby Modine as Pamela “Pam” Sims

Mark Acheson as Charlie

David Lawrence Brown as Mr. Sims 

David Tomlinson as Max Benedict

Overall, the film is decent. I’d give it a 7/10, as it’s supposed to be a remake yet it has many differences from the original – the original having no disembodied voice calling out to Billy. In the original, Billy is put into a catholic orphanage and has a mental breakdown instead of the foster system and then having the voice convince him to kill, the biggest difference being the 2012 version not even including Billy at all, seemingly having a completely different plot following a killer dressed as Santa.