Violent Night
When an elite team of mercenaries breaks into a family compound on Christmas Eve, a disgruntled Santa Claus must take them out to save both the hostages and his Holiday.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Released
- 2022
- Country
- United States, Canada
Details
Release year: 2022
Storyline
When an elite team of mercenaries breaks into a family compound on Christmas Eve, a disgruntled Santa Claus must take them out to save both the hostages and his Holiday.
Top credits
David Harbour — Santa
John Leguizamo — Scrooge
Beverly D'Angelo — Gertrude
Alex Hassell — Jason
Did you know
• In a 2022 interview, Tommy Wirkola spoke about referencing Home Alone (1990): "Obviously when I was a kid I loved Home Alone (1990), but as you get older you think, 'Oh they would die if you did those things to them', so that was basically the approach to the scene. All right, let's just do traps very similar to Home Alone (1990) and let's just see what it does to a human being, and I think what makes it so funny as well is that the little girl, she doesn't realize she's hurting them. She just thinks she's doing like the movie, 'Ah, this is fun and games!'
• Morgan Steel (Cam Gigandet) is based on Mark Wahlberg. Like Wahlberg, Steel stars in several films about the military, and he says he could've stopped the hijackers on 9/11 had he been aboard the plane, a claim Wahlberg made (and apologized for) in 2012.
• The logo on the catering company van is called "Farkus and Dill" after the bullies in A Christmas Story (1983).
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $50,057,405
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $13,450,240 (2022-12-04)
User reviews
This Santa Dies Hard
Exactly what you'd expect.
Better than I expected, in the Die Hard field.
