ONE OF THE BEST I will say right now that Silent Night,Deadly Night is absolutely one of the best slasher films in history.While there are many santa-slasher movies,Silent Night,Deadly Night is my favorate.It's everything you want in a horror movie,it's scary,it's entertaining,and it certainly has some great death scenes.The story starts out with five year old Billy,on the road with his parents in Utah.They stop by an institution to visit crazy grandpa,who for some reason has one part in the whole film and never shows up again.He tells Billy that Santa Claus is evil and "punishes" little boys and girls that are naughty.Now how should Billy take that?The wrong way,that's how.A little five year old is certainly unaware that the person he is talking to is a lunatic.On the way home a killer dressed up like santa claus murders Billy's parents and leaves him and his baby brother Ricky(who shows up for the sequel)Then the story moves forward a few years,where Billy and his brother live in an orphange.There they meet Mother Superior,who is responsible for turning out hero of the movie into a psychotic killer.Billy is driven completely crazy and goes on a rampage as guess who?Santa!We see a killer dressed up as santa kill his parents now we get to see Billy as the bad guy.As if it was'nt enough for his mom to get raped and killed along with his father shot.I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone,but I will say it is worth seeing.The movie is terrific.There is a downer however,the effect it has on children.Parents actually had this movie banned because it put the wrong ideas in childrens' minds.I have to say maybe it was a good idea that it got banned,but it was a great movie.Five sequels are in the Silent Night,Deadly Night series,2,4,and 5 being HORRIBLE!!!1 and 3 are good.This movie basically has two bad people,Billy and mother superior.I guess the one who is to blame is mother superior.I remember seeing Silent Night,Deadly Night the first time when I was 13,in 1988.I am 27 now and have seen it many times since.Of all the slasher films that have been made,I would give this one a 12.