Silent Night Bloody Night

[DEATHH DREAMS author]

(Not to be confused with Silent Night Deadly Night). What a pleasant surprise! Very atmospheric and creepy, and a bit too dark and grainy in some places, but this is all part of the fun. Patrick O'Neal plays the lawyer whom you'll recognize from the original Stepford Wives. Above all this story is well written and has good camera work. Recommended.

Plot Summary for
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974)
Wilford Butler returns home on Christmas Eve and his house had been turned into a mental institution for the criminally insane. But the day of his return, he is set on fire and dies. The towns people believe his death was an accident, and the institution-house is later closed down. Wilford leaves the house to his grandson Jeffrey. A few years later, Jeffrey finally decides to sell this grandfather's house, but the towns people including the Mayor have mixed feelings on keeping people away from the house, especially when a serial killer escapes from another institution and finds refuge there. The killer makes frightening phone calls and kills anyone coming near the house. But what does the killer have in common with what happened to Wilford Butler years before?

[zwoti]

Originally Posted by DEATHH DREAMS author

(1974)

classic horror section = pre 1970 :)

[Doc Faustus]

I thought it was a bit weak. I liked the sepiatone stuff and John Carradine, though. Warhol crony Candy Darling is in one of the sepiatone scenes.