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[[File:GARBAGE-DAY.jpg|link=Narm|thumb|300px|[[Memetic Mutation|GARBAGE DAY!]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE3k&NR=1 After that, he pulls out a gun. We don't get it either].]]
 
{{quote| ''"[[Ear Worm|Santa's watching, Santa's waiting...]]"''}}
 
'''''Silent Night, Deadly Night''''' is a series of [[Slasher MoviesMovie|slasher]] (and later outright horror) films. The series began in [[The Eighties]] during the slasher movie boom started by ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]]'' and ''[[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|Friday the 13th]]'' and, like those two series, centered around a holiday - in this case, Christmas. Despite there being several Christmas-themed horror films released before the original ''Silent Night, Deadly Night'' was the one that caused the [[Moral Guardians]] to froth at the mouth in rage over the film [[Berserk Button|depicting Santa Claus as a villain.]] The film was pulled from theatres quickly, but found a cult following on home video and was followed by four sequels.
 
But let's face it, you're only here because of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE3k Garbage Day] scene.
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''When your nightmare ends, the real terror begins!''
 
Awakening from a coma due to forming a mental link with a blind [[Psychic Powers|psychic]] girl Ricky (who has snazzy clear dome replacing the top of his head, [[Body Horror|exposing his brain and its fluids]]) becomes obsessed with the girl and stalks her as she heads to her grandmother's house for the holidays, killing everyone in his way. On Ricky's trail [[Halloween (Filmfilm)|are his slightly mad doctor and a high ranking law enforcement official]].
 
'''''Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4''''' (1990)
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Loosely connected to the previous film this one gets more into the holiday spirit, featuring [[Living Toys|toys that kill]]. After the mysterious death of her husband a woman, her son and her former lover begin investigating the toys produced by an enigmatic toymaker named [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Joe Petto and his son Pino]]. Mickey Rooney portrays Joe, despite being one of the most vocal haters of the original film; he probably [[Rock Bottom|needed]] [[Money, Dear Boy|the work]] and plays a mean, scary drunk surprisingly well.
 
After being in [[Development Hell]] for years, a remake (simply called ''Silent Night'') is finally being made.{{when}}
 
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: The drunk Joe Petto's habit of smacking his son Pino around in ''The Toy Maker'' (occasionally killing him and rebuilding him later).
* [[Accidental Murder]]: In the first film Officer Barnes shoots a man in a Santa suit he thought was Billy when the Santa fails to back off from the orphanage children when Barnes yells at him too. Turns out the Santa was Father O'Brien, who was deaf.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: Used at least once by every film in the series, but ''Better Watch Out!'' seems particularly fond of this trope, giving us three dream sequences in the first fifteen minutes alone.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Janice from ''Initiation''.
{{quote| '''Janice:''' "You look wonderful! Welcome to the family! Now, you have to bring us the boy..."}}
* [[Ascended Meme]]: The "Garbage Day!" line has appeared on the covers of some of the DVD releases of ''Part 2''.
** It appears on the trailer too.
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** Hank's father in ''Initiation''.
* [[Attempted Rape]]: SO. MUCH.
* [[Attack of the 50 -Foot Whatever]]: The ''gigantic'' cockroach from ''Initiation''.
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Billy's main weapon. Ricky also uses one to kill Mother Superior in ''Part 2''.
** Noah and Sarah use one to attack Pino in ''The Toy Maker''.
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* [[Barrier-Busting Blow]]: Ricky punching through a door to grab Jerri in ''Better Watch Out!''.
* [[Berserk Button]]: The color red sets off Ricky's murderous urges in ''Better Watch Out!'' (and maybe ''Part 2'').
* [[Big Creepy -Crawlies]]: The larvae and cockroaches in ''Initiation''.
* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: Ricky (and to a lesser extent Chip's) crazy, fluttery eyebrows from ''Part 2''.
* [[Blind Seer]]: Laura of ''Better Watch Out!''
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* [[Creator Cameo]]: The director of ''Part 2'' plays one of Ricky's victims in the "Garbage Day" sequence, and the film's cinematographer later pops up as a charity collector who Ricky kills for his Santa outfit. Likewise, director Monte Hellman plays the poor fool that wakes up Ricky (and gets killed for his trouble) in ''Better Watch Out''.
* [[Curiosity Killed the Cast]]
* [[Death Byby Sex]]: Denise and Tommy in the first film, Jerri and possibly Chris in ''Better Watch Out!'', plus Meredith and Buck in ''The Toy Maker'' (though the former survives the toy attack).
** Averted by {{spoiler|Kim}} in the fourth film; the very first time we see her she's having sex with her boyfriend, but they both survive the film.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Ricky by the end of the series.
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* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Billy stabs Mr. Sims in the head with a claw hammer in ''Silent Night, Deadly Night''.
** Pino tries to kill Noah with one ''The Toy Maker''.
* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: {{spoiler|Ricky at the end of ''Better Watch Out!'' - Laura holds out a sharpened stick, and Ricky trips over and fatally impales himself on it}}.
* [[Dull Surprise]]: Samantha Scully in ''Better Watch Out!'' Granted, she's playing a character whose blind, but still...
** In the same film there's a scene where Ricky punches through a door to attack Jerri. As his girlfriend is being throttled Chris says "Holy shit!" in a really, really subdued manner.
* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Both Billy and Ricky are confronted with a young child in the middle of their respective rampages. Those children are the only people who get to live.
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: Ricky causes a car to blow up in ''Part 2'' by shooting it in the grill.
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* [[Hollywood Nuns]]
* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]
* [[I Just Shot Marvin in Thethe Face]]: Right after Ricky kills Chip and Jennifer in ''Part 2'' an obviously rookie cop tries to arrest him, wielding his gun in a really impractical manner which winds up resulting in his death.
* [[Infant Immortality]]
** In ''Silent Night, Deadly Night'' while the Santa criminal goes looking for Billy after killing the Chapman parents he doesn't bother with baby Ricky, whose crying in the car. Billy at first looks like he's going to kill Cindy, but leaves her alone when she claims she was good all year.
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** The cult tries to force Kim into killing Lonnie in ''Initiation''. While she does abduct him, she stops short of killing him at the last minute and saves him.
** ''The Toy Maker'' has Lonnie putting on a pair of rigged roller skates which rocket him full speed into a car. At first it looks like he died, but turns out he's just horribly mangled...
* [[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice]]
** Denise being impaled on the antlers of a mounted deer head in ''Silent Night, Deadly Night''.
** Rocco getting impaled with an old umbrella (which pops open right before it rains) in ''Part 2''.
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* [[Jerk Jock]]: Chip in ''Part 2''.
* [[Just a Machine]]: Joe Petto beat his creation Pino in ''The Toy Maker'', claiming he could never love him "like a real son". At the end of the movie the barely functioning Pino grabs Sarah's leg and she starts frantically stomping his head into bits and pieces of machinery. She's stopped by her son Derek, who says "Its just a toy, mommy."
* [[Karma Houdini]]: The guy who killed the store clerk and the Chapman parents, plus Mother Superior. [[Off Withwith His Head|At least until the sequel.]]
* [[Knife Nut]]: Ricky in ''Better Watch Out!''.
* [[Large Ham]]: Ricky in ''Part 2''.
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* [[The Nth Doctor]]: Mother Superior is played by a different actress in ''Part 2''. To hide this its mentioned she had a stroke, which horribly disfigured her face somehow.
* [[Number of the Beast]]: Mother Superior's home address.
* [[Off Withwith His Head]]
** Mac (who gets his head chopped off while sledding) in ''Silent Night, Deadly Night''.
** Mother Superior (who has her head put back on her body afterward) in ''Part 2''.
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* [[Series Continuity Error]]: In the first film, a priest in a Santa suit is mistaken for the killer and is fatally shot after he failed to follow a cop's order to freeze. It turns out he was deaf. But in the sequel, it's said that the deaf man who was shot dead was the janitor at the orphanage. While the film-makers don't explicitly say why they made this change, they imply on the DVD commentary that they were uneasy about the thought of killing a priest. Killing a ''nun'' is apparently just fine and dandy, though.
* [[Spontaneous Human Combustion]]: Featured twice in ''Initiation''.
* [[Stay in Thethe Kitchen]]: This is the attitude of Hank's father in ''Initiation''.
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Ricky in the theatre in ''Part 2''.
* [[Straw Feminist]]: The cult in ''Initiation'' is made up of these.
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