Violent Night

Amid the deluge of sequels, remakes, and adaptations that suffuse theater screens, it's always refreshing to see a film that makes you think: How has nobody ...

During his rescue mission, Santa establishes a radio line with Trudy, who has managed to escape and hide in the attic. Bryan Adams sings, “Something about Christmas time / That makes you wish it was Christmas every day / To see the joy in the children's eyes,” as Santa revives his Viking spirit in a grisly showdown with the armed robbers. In a later scene, after suffering a knife wound to his hip (incurred while thrusting a tree-topper star through one of the mercenary kidnappers’ eyes and plugging the light into the electrical outlet, igniting his face), Santa takes his shirt off to stitch up his cut, revealing his scarred and tattooed chest. Wirkola cleverly applies the same idea to a Christmas movie, reimagining Santa as an immortal Norse berserker from the 11th century. With a pithy backstory established, the film wastes little time getting to the action. Dejected with the consumerist, video game-obsessed youth of the day, Santa has turned to alcohol.

David Harbour's killer Santa action-comedy Violent Night drops on digital platforms (at premium VOD prices) just in time for Christmas.

There is also another huge impediment to the future box office success of Violent Night: the December 16 release of the long-awaited James Cameron sequel Avatar: The Way of Water. This is most likely a bid to get as many eyes on the film as possible before next year. [Violent Night](https://screenrant.com/tag/violent-night/) has made a surprise drop on digital platforms just ahead of Christmas on Sunday. [ComicBook.com](https://comicbook.com/movies/news/violent-night-now-available-streaming/), digital platforms have received an unexpected Christmas present in the form of a surprise [release of Violent Night](https://screenrant.com/violent-night-santa-naughty-list-plothole-explained/). Despite being so early its theatrical run, there are several reasons why Universal may have decided to put the film out digitally so early. This digital release comes less than three weeks after the film's December 2 theatrical premiere, allowing fans at home to experience the bloody cheer for themselves while gathering at home with their families.

(WAND) - On this edition of WAND Presents The Reel Geno, Geno looks at a movie that could be added to his Holiday Movie Marathon.

Violent Night, with David Harbour as a badass Santa Claus, is the best Christmas movie of 2022 - here's where you can watch and stream it.

It’s priced at $19.99 for rental and $24.99 to purchase the movie. [here](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/violent-night-review-bad-santa-meets-die-hard-in-new-christmas-classic-1972428/), and our interview with director Tommy Wirkola about what to expect from the sequel [here](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/what-to-expect-from-violent-night-2-director-tommy-wirkola-teases-rudolph-and-mrs-claus-in-sequel-1987667/). We’re talking Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Scrooged, Krampus, The Night Before, Christmas Bloody Christmas, and more. You can check out our review of Violent Night Is Violent Night on streaming? Violent Night is available to buy or rent from

As many studios do now, if a film first makes a theatrical release, it eventually comes to streaming. Which streaming service will Violent Night be on?

However, since it’s a Universal Pictures film, the production will most likely stream on Peacock since the company is owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment division of NBCUniversal. Which streaming service will Violent Night be on? If you haven’t seen Violent Night on the big screens yet, you really need to!

Production Company: 87North Productions. Director(s): Tommy Wirkola. Writer(s): Pat Casey, Josh Miller. Cast: David Harbour, John Leguizamo, Alex Hassell, ...

Just watching this may have put me on the "Naughty List", but it sure is a lot of fun! As it says in the title, it is violent, with a lot of blood, gore, dismemberment, torture and brutal deaths. As mentioned, the plot of the film is great and the movie flows well with an excellent and fast paced rhythm. John Leguizamo is always fun to watch, and he does a great job as the leader of the thieves giving a great performance as the man who wants to kill Christmas! The production value of this film is good with some nice special effects and some well-choreographed fight scenes. On Christmas Eve, the audience finds that Santa (David Harbour) has become disillusioned with Christmas and specifically his place in this modern world that he finds solace in the bottom of a bottle.

The Gist: BELLCHH. It's Christmas Eve, and Santa's (Harbour) crocked. He laments how kids just want money and video games anymore.

But Violent Night hits the perfect tone for Christmas blasphemy, the movie equivalent of stepping out of the family party for a minute to sneak a shot of whiskey. This Santa could really use a fresh jolt of Christmas spirit, and he finds it in two things: a little girl’s innocence, and the sweet, sweet release of gratuitous violence. It’s not the first movie to flip the table on sentimental Christmas cheer, and follows its own formula of subversion – hey, lookit Santa, he’s barfing and bashing in skulls. Thing is, John McClane never whaled on the bad guys with a stocking full of pool balls or creamed thugs with a sledgehammer to the tune of ironic Christmas carols. Jason’s sister Alva (Edi Patterson) is also a Piece of Work who’s raising a Piece of Work influencer teen boy Bert (Alexander Elliot) and dating a Piece of Work actor (Cam Gigandet). The not-so-jolly old elf is smack in Harbour’s wheelhouse, and he and Leguizamo deliver spoofy hard-boiled action-movie one-liners with juicy aplomb. Granted, it indulges a couple of those feelings so it doesn’t fall into and get stuck in the depravity pit, but for the most part, it rebels against the feelgood slop of most holiday fodder. Santa catches wind of the shenanigans and before you know it, he’s kinda John McClaneing through the mansion while Scrooge Hans Grubers his way to the vault. [Amazon Prime Video](https://www.amazon.com/Violent-Night-David-Harbour/dp/B0B8JTLFMR?tag=decider08-20&asc_refurl=https://decider.com/2022/12/21/violent-night-stream-it-or-skip-it/&asc_source=web)) casts [Stranger Things](https://decider.com/show/stranger-things/) star David Harbour as a badass Santa who can handle his booze and his warhammer better than he handles his reindeer. He’s the real deal. Joy to the world for all the selfish entitled a-holes. [VIOLENT NIGHT](https://decider.com/movie/violent-night/): STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Violent Night” starring David Harbour is one of the most stupid movies you're likely to love.

Years from now, there will be a “Violent Night” drinking game based on the icicles, candy canes, stars and tinsel used to maim and kill throughout. Subscribe now to not miss a thing.](https://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/NewsletterSignup/Page) This is a movie that spends an inordinate amount of time showing Santa get piss-house drunk and urinate and vomit on people from his sleigh. This is a family that lives in fear of its uber-powerful matriarch Gertrude (Beverly D’Angelo in fantastic and filthy form) even as they jockey constantly for top billing. On the flip side is only son Jason (Alex Hassell), his ex-wife Linda (Alexis Louder) and their daughter Trudy (Leah Brady). And it doesn’t give two craps about all the ginormous plot holes that will drive you to drink if you waste any thought trying to make sense of them.

The action movie is the latest project from 87North, a production company founded by David Leitch and Kelly McCormick. Few filmmakers can compete with Leitch ...

We would have to whisper while we were prepping, and then as soon as we got a window, we’d shoot pieces of the sequence. Usually, that’s weeks and weeks of rehearsal, but we mapped it out the day before. We had to shoot like a splinter unit, in between shots on the main unit. We had to figure out how to execute this with David while still preserving a level of energy for the fight. I have an Eastern sensibility when it comes to action, but I think I have a Western sensibility when it comes to story. It took almost a week to shoot, including a day or two for the main unit. So we try to keep the stunts true to the characters and true to the actors’ abilities. And the room we shot in was small, so we had to reconfigure a lot of things to make it appear bigger. So you have to take in the fact that they’re children, but the progression’s the same — you start really small and build up, build up, build up. Black Widow only had a few fighting scenes with him, but for this [film], he really took the bull by the horns and just kind of went for it. Personally, I like to get them early on so I can teach them a base library of movements. BTL: One thing I love about your action scenes is how they show the physics of the stunts.

Violent Night Stunt Coordinator Jonathan “Jojo” Eusebio Talks David Harbor Training for the Season's Beating Ups and His Love of Hong Kong Action Movies ...

[Y](https://nnn.ng/videodownload/youtube-downloader/) kelly mccormick. [y](https://nnn.ng/videodownload/youtube-downloader/) bar? [Leitch and McCormick](https://nnn.ng/violent-night-stunt-coordinator-jonathan-jojo-eusebio-talks-david-harbor-training-for-the-seasons-beating-ups-and-his-love-of-hong-kong-action-movies/#Leitch and McCormick) [Tommy Wirkola](https://nnn.ng/violent-night-stunt-coordinator-jonathan-jojo-eusebio-talks-david-harbor-training-for-the-seasons-beating-ups-and-his-love-of-hong-kong-action-movies/#Tommy Wirkola) Eusebio: The camera crews are as essential in the fight as everyone else. We would have to whisper as we got ready, and then as soon as we had a window, we would shoot parts of the sequence. Like in John Wick, we use a certain rhythm for the shots. BTL: Hong Kong action movies have a distinctive pace, much like your action in Violent Night. I have an Eastern sensibility when it comes to the action, but I think I have a Western sensibility when it comes to the story. She talked about how she saw Black Widow as part of preparing her to train Harbor and why working with children isn’t too different than working with adult actors (safety remains top priority). So we try to keep the stunts true to the characters and true to the skills of the actors. Eusebio has worked on an incredible variety of films marked by superior action, from entries in the John Wick, Matrix and Bourne franchises to Marvel movies like Blade II and Deadpool 2.

We've seen no shortage of actors lining up to play Santa over the years, including Paul Giamatti, Ed Anser, Kurt Russell, Tim Allen, and even Billy Bob ...

I think one of the explorations of the movie is, ‘Who was this guy?’ In our culture, he is this saccharine version of himself. Let the carnage and hilarity commence. For those who are intrigued but unfamiliar with Violent Night’s premise, it tells the tale of a down-and-out Santa on Christmas Eve as he grapples with his plummeting festive spirit.

Let's be honest: if the Home Alone movies were truly accurate to the real world, the Wet Bandits probably should have succumbed to their grievous injuries ...

"But I'd say that was a perfect example where we had to change the ending and then what do we do now? Everyone was pulling in the same direction and trying to make the same movie. [Dozens of holiday Hallmark movies](https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/hallmark-1) and [Dr. There was a bit where Trudy set one of them on fire and we were going to do a full body stuntman running on fire burn sequence. [Here,] everything just fell into place and you're like, 'Oh, this is a way better ending.’ It's not as big and spectacular, but emotionally, it has a way bigger catharsis for Santa and Scrooge." A perfect example of that synergy can be found in the movie's climax, where Santa (David Harbour) kills lead mercenary, Mr. But also it was like, ‘How can we have like fun with her?’" the movie's co-writer, Josh Miller, admitted during a recent Zoom conversation with SYFY WIRE. I feel like our first conversation with him, he was like, ‘This Home Alone sequence, we have to make it bigger!’" I think that was the one where the studio was like, ‘We can't have like a little kid set a person on fire. [Home Alone movies](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/home-alone-2-prank-left-joe-pesci-with-serious-burns) were truly accurate to the real world, the Wet Bandits probably should have succumbed to their grievous injuries in the first film. A normal human being can't just walk off a hot iron to the face or a jet of roaring flames to the forehead. These haphazard traps, impressively concocted in the young girl's mind after a single viewing of Home Alone, turn out to be incredibly lethal for two of the mercenaries attempting to rob the fortified family compound.

David Harbour - of Stranger Things fame - is the action-hero version of Santa Claus as he fights a group of mercenaries on Christmas Eve. “Violent Night” is ...

On Christmas Eve, a group of mercenaries takes a wealthy family hostage. [Violent Night” is available to stream on Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/Violent-Night-David-Harbour/dp/B0B8JTLFMR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19J9DO5G4LP4N&keywords=violent+night&qid=1671738923&s=instant-video&sprefix=violen+night%2Cinstant-video%2C96&sr=1-1). [Amazon Prime ](https://www.amazon.com/amazonprime)started the Christmas celebration early, making [“Violent Night” available for stream](https://www.amazon.com/Violent-Night-David-Harbour/dp/B0B8JTLFMR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19J9DO5G4LP4N&keywords=violent+night&qid=1671738923&s=instant-video&sprefix=violen+night%2Cinstant-video%2C96&sr=1-1).

There are radical differences between how Christians in free nations celebrate Christmas and how Christians in nations hostile to Christ celebrate ...

While we can't know where attacks will occur or which of our brothers and sisters will suffer the most, we do know how to respond — with prayer. Or will a gathering of Christians in the Middle East be spoiled by family members enraged that a loved one is following Isa al Masih, the Son of God? Even in the worst circumstances, God's presence can bring peace and joy, the gifts of a loving Father to his children. But it takes a lot of hard work, time, and money to do what we do. While most of us in the west take this freedom for granted, it is a bold act of faith and courage for Christians who live under constant threat of persecution. In the days surrounding the celebration of Christ's birth, Christians — especially those who worship openly — are targeted and often killed. But despite past attacks and the ongoing threat of more attacks, Christians in nations hostile to Christ will gather to worship him this Christmas. Joseph, having been warned by an angel, flees Bethlehem with Mary and the baby Jesus to avoid Jesus' murder at the hands of Herod's henchmen. The following day, Hindu radicals attacked a church in northern India during its Christmas service. Persecuted by their government, extremist groups, or even their own family members, they do what they can to minimize the risk of raids or attacks. In free nations, we gather in our churches and sing "Silent Night." In free nations, we boisterously sing our demand for figgy pudding.