The other film that we watched was a complete opposite of the last one. This one was called Violent Night. It came out last year and I had heard of it but thought it was a horror film. This is about Santa Claus being over kids wishing for just video games and not believing him in him anymore. Meanwhile there's this little girl named Gertrude who everyone calls Trudy who just like the last film wants her family to get back together again. The family goes to Greenwich Connecticut and meets up with her dad's family who is stinking rich. Well, Santa is at the house delivering gifts a whole ass group of mercenaries show up to steal 300 million bucks that granny is hiding. Santa impales one of these guys on the icicle after a very violent fight. In this movie Santa gets shot at, he gets cut, all kind of crazy violent things are happening and he's able to communicate with the little girl through a walkie-talkie that her father had given her. She very much still believes in Santa Claus and these mercenaries led by one calling himself Scrooge is very upset that he is being taken out by someone dressed as Santa. He also had a traumatic experience as a child dealing with Christmas time.
So as Santa starts to lose faith in himself and he does not have his reindeer because they ran off after someone shot up the roof you see little flashbacks of him from years ago where he was a viking and just slaughtering people with a hammer. This movie lives up to its name because it's like a violent version of Home Alone. There is so much blood and carnage in this damn movie. I didn't mind it and I thought the movie was actually really good. This is one of those ones I would watch again not during the holidays but when I just need an action movie fix. And I am happy to report that the little girl in this was not annoying but I did sing a song about little girls being mixed because in both of these films the child was a mixed child. Welcome to the future! And I also discovered that there's a mid-credit scene that I did not know about and will have to go and look at.
David Harbour as Santa Claus
John Leguizamo as Scrooge
Alex Hassell as Jason
Alexis Louder as Linda
Edi Patterson as Alva
Cam Gigandet as Morgan Steel
Leah Brady as Trudy
Beverly D'Angelo as Gertrude
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