Silent Night, Deadly Night

Opened on the same weekend as A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and briefly out-grossed the latter by around $161,800-since this film was playing in more than twice as many theaters as "Nightmare"-before the gross fell about 45% by the second weekend, even before this film was pulled from theaters.

(at around 8 mins) The convenience store that is held up by the man in the Santa suite isn't modified from its 1984 look at all to fit the look of a store from 1971 when this part of the film takes place. This is most noticed when reading the price signs, which advertise prices that are too high for the time period. The poster in the doorway advertises a 6 pack of Pepsi cans for $1.99, which is over three times more then it would have been in 1971, and the sign above the check out counter advertises $1.00 ice bags. Also the Visa and MasterCard logo stickers in the windows have the 1980's logo, MasterCard was "Master Charge" until 1979 and Visa was "BankAmericard" until 1976.

A later version released on video contains an extra 3 minutes featuring more gore than the theatrical version.

Edited into Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)