Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming

SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT: THE HOMECOMING (2013, UK, dir. James Plumb) is a remake of the American horror flick SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT from 1974, this one made in Bridgend on a tiny indie budget. The story involves an ancestral home being visited by various characters and one of its previous inhabitants returning to get rid of the intruders who've dared to show themselves...

Truth be told, this is awful stuff, the very worst kind of material that you see in independent cinema. There's no plot to speak of, the script is dull and the acting is seriously awful. The story merely consists of one murder sequence after another, as various courting couples turn up at the house and are bumped off by a mystery villain with a covered face. The gore is slapdash and typically involves scenes of an axe rising and falling and blood splashing on a wall. There's an obligatory shower scene and a boring reveal at the climax, but it's all so appallingly conceived that I hated every minute of it. The nice slipcover art is the only thing good about this film.

Bought this for £3.50 and it wasn't even worth that! One of the worst films I have attempted to watch. The cover and synopsis on the back left my wife and I thinking we would be in for a half decent scare-fest. We were so wrong. Acting that we spent most of our time laughing in disbelief at, overdubs that were so badly out of sync they reminded me of really bad adverts on the TV and a killer who's "menacing" voice sounded ridiculous! We are actually only 37 mins into the film as I write this and it is that bad I couldn't wait until it finished. Terrible, I can't find anything good to say about it unfortunately.

I really can't even muster up the energy to write a full in depth review for this title. It was only on the off chance that I picked up this film, I looked at the awesome cover and read the synopsis and believe this had the potential to be a really good film.

I was wrong, as the saying goes; you can never judge a book by it's cover. The acting was poor, the storyline was terrible and the camera work was below that in which you would find in a soap opera.

It was obvious the budget was low but I feel more money went into the cover than that of the film. There was heaps of potential but it was never realised. Sadly and it pains me to say this, but this is one of the worst films I've ever seen. I've sat through, Freddy Got Fingered and Gigli and still they seemed so much better than this film.

British horror is dead and only seemed any good with the help of Shaun Of The Dead. Please bear in mind, this is only my opinion. One star might be harsh but two would be too kind.

I agree with the other reviewer. I was also fooled by the favourable reviews on the DVD cover and the great-looking picture on the box. However, this turned out to be the equivalent of cinematic excrement. The plot doesn't make sense, the sound quality is abysmal and I have seen better acting in a pantomime. Believe me, this film makes the Friday The 13th franchise look like Citizen Kane. Don't waste your money on this film or your time by watching it. If you want to see a good Christmas-themed slasher movie, then check out Silent Night Deadly Night or the original Black Christmas. You will thank me later. This film is truly awful and only belongs in a bargain bin, but even that would be too kind a fate for this. Utter rubbish of the highest order.

James Plumb's gory, violent festive horror is for adults only, about a man who inherits his grandfather's home, unaware that an axe killer lives there too.

This is a British remake of the original version of Silent Night, Bloody Night, released 41 years earlier - and the final product here is one that should never have been done.

The story concerns the uninhabited house of Wilfred Butler (Philip Harvey), a rich but concerned man who killed himself in 1987, who has been willed to his grandson, Jeffrey (Alan Humphreys).

The home has sat in turmoil since Wilfred's demise, standing in the way of creators who desire to turn the property into residential homes.