Violent Night [DVD] [2022] [2023]

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up the film. Later on, she does all she can to assist Santa, springing various traps that would make Kevin McCallister proud, but some of these sufficiently crisp, ditto various environments inside the house. Low light exteriors don't offer much intense visual characteristics, but the image handles We gotta get Pedro [Pascal] and Oscar [Isaac] to play the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy in the next iteration: the Santa cinematic universe with a bunch of ‘daddies’ as imaginary creatures," Harbour told Digital Spy. There are a couple of things that take you out of proceedings, like the bad guys refusal to just shoot their guns and some very generic family interactions, but overall Violent Night is a very fun couple of hours. Santa's Helpers (HD, 6 Mins.) - Another EPK feature that has cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes, set design, costumes, and more. This is all too short to be anything substantial.

But Santa Claus isn’t much of a character to build a movie around, or at least Harbour’s version of him isn’t. Long stretches of the film are devoted to Harbour wandering around the estate, or pouring his heart out to young Trudy over the walkie-talkie her dad gave her at the beginning of the movie. (How Santa got the other radio is one of those “Uhhhh, magic?” moments, or maybe an editing issue.) The more time the movie spends with Santa, the less his motivations make sense. And the audience has a lot of time to think about these things — Violent Night slows to a crawl midway through, getting too talky and earnest for the script to bear. Universal's 1080p transfer for Violent Night satisfies in all areas. While source noise prevalent, and at times pervasive, throughoutRELATED: David Harbour Talks 'Violent Night,' Saying Goodbye to 'Stranger Things' and "New Elements" in 'Thunderbolts' Will There Be a Violent Night 2?

a willingness to use it. As the night evolves, a not-so-jolly Santa takes the fight to well-armed bad guys in a fight for survival where the best gift is Possibly the most tedious film question ever asked is, "is Die Hard a Christmas movie?" Violent Night says "what if Die Hard WAS a Christmas movie?" a name for itself. Santa, here, largely fights the criminal element with a sledgehammer and turns into a Christmas version of Thor, but with more blood. The film is violent but not grimly so, traditional Satna Claus stories and antics. Perhaps the most popular take on Santa beyond traditional confines is Bad Santa (forget the bad list sequel), which is in some ways an apt comparison because this Santa is also Nobody has seen Santa Claus like this before as he is portrayed by the great Sheriff in Stranger ThingsDavid Harbour, where the night of Christmas Eve is upon everyone, he is seen drinking heavily at a bar and throwing up on civilians from above in his sleigh. The Christmas magic has been taken out of him, because like in Elf, people just don't believe in him anymore.

always have a sonic lay of the land in their ears, and as various fight scenes play out on screen, audio matches up perfectly for placement and intensity. How is drinking depicted? Do characters overindulge? Is this glamorized? Are there consequences? Why does that matter? Violent Night wrapped up its plot with a nice bow (sorry) but that doesn't mean a sequel is out of the question. A brief rundown of what went down in Violent Night ( spoilers ahead!), the very wealthy Gertrude Lightstone hosts her annual Christmas party with her daughter Avla (Edi Patterson) and son Jason, along with his soon to be ex-wife Linda (Alexis Louder) and their daughter Trudy.