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:''Not to be confused with the 1972 horror film ''Silent Night, Bloody Night''.'' ''Silent Night, Deadly Night'' is a 1984 American slasher horror film directed by Charles E. Sellier, Jr., produced by Ira R Barmak, written by Michael Hickey, and starring Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Linnea Quigley, Britt Leach and Leo Geter. Set during Christmas, the story concerns a young man, who after witnessing his parents murdered and raised tumultuously in a abusive Catholic orphanage as a young boy, begins to suffer traumatic experiences years later and emerges into a spree killer (donning a Santa suit) himself. Released by TriStar Pictures on November 9, 1984, the film gained controversy upon release towards the advertising's deception. In response, the film received negative reviews and was pulled out of theatres a week after its release. While successful during its opening week, the film became a box office bomb with $2.5 million made overall. Since its release, the film has developed a cult following and created a franchise consisting of five sequels (with the forth and fifth installment having no connection to the film) and a loose remake released years later. ==Plot== In 1971, on a visit to his institutionalized grandfather, who warned 5-year-old Billy Chapman that Santa Claus punishes the naughty, his family happens to come across a man in a Santa Claus outfit seemingly having car trouble. The man, actually a criminal who has used the disguise to rob a liquor store, mercilessly kills Billy's father with a handgun in front of him and his infant brother Ricky, then slashing their mother's throat with a switchblade and leaving the children alive. Three years later, Billy and Ricky are celebrating Christmas in an orphanage run by Mother Superior, a strict disciplinarian, who persistently strikes children who misbehave and considers punishment for their wicked actions as a good thing. Sister Margaret seems to be the only one who sympathizes with the children, trying to get Billy to open up and play with the children, but they are constantly under Superior's scrutinizing eye and they regularly end up getting punished. On Christmas morning, the orphanage has a man in a Santa Claus suit come by, and of course Billy is terrified of him. Mother Superior drags him kicking and screaming to Santa until Billy punches the Santa in the face and runs back to his room. Ten years later, 18-year-old Billy leaves the orphanage in hopes of finding a normal life. He gets a job as a stock boy at a local toy store. He has a crush on his coworker Pamela, but his thoughts of having sex with her are often interrupted by morbid visions of his parents' murderer. Steadily growing unstable, Billy is volunteered by force to dress up as Santa Claus for the store on Christmas Eve. Shortly after the store closes and everyone parties with alcohol, he happens upon Pamela almost being raped by another coworker Andy. Turning insane, Billy hangs him with a string of Christmas lights and kills Pamela with a utility knife uttering that punishment is good. His boss Mr. Sims, comes in and is killed by a hammer. After Mrs. Randall discovers Billy's grisly work, is attacked and killed with a arrow after attempting to escape. Sister Margaret discovers the carnage and runs back to the orphanage for help on the telephone. Meanwhile, Billy breaks into a house and kills two teenagers Denise and Tommy, who are having sex. Denise is impaled on a set of deer antlers while Tommy is thrown through a window. A little girl interrupts him and he asks her if she's been naughty or nice; he smiles and warmly gives her the utility knife used earlier. Witnessing bullies picking on two teenage boys while they are sledding, Billy decapitates one of the bullies, causing the other bully to flee. Meanwhile, the authorities are still investigating with the aid of Sister Margaret, who assuming that Billy is the killer and postulates that he is making his way back to the orphanage. The next morning, a man dressed in a Santa Claus outfit approaches the orphanage. Officer Barnes warns to stop (who refuses), where he is forced to shoot. He discovers that the killed Santa was Father O'Brien, a deaf pastor on his way to the orphanage. Unbeknowist that Billy is nearby, he kills a distraught Barnes with a double-bit axe. Later, Billy arrives at the orphanage and is allowed to come in as the children believe him to be Santa. Mother Superior, now in a wheelchair, disbelieves in Santa Claus. Billy raises his axe to kill her and yells out "Naughty!", before Captain Richards arrives and shoots Billy. A collapsed Billy looks at the children and says "You're safe now, Santa Claus is gone" before scumming to his demise. As the children gather around, an attending Ricky, coldly stares at Mother Superior before eerily uttering "Naughty". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Silent Night, Deadly Night」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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