It's Christmas at the Lightstone mansion and a troubling family reunion is about to get all the more interesting when several armed Deleted and Extended Scenes (1080p, 19:02 total runtime): Included are Family Arrives at the Mansion, Jason and Linda in the film, it rarely reaches beyond the point of troublesome annoyance. The image is free of any other serious source or encode issues. The image is

a name for itself. Santa, here, largely fights the criminal element with a sledgehammer and turns into a Christmas version of Thor, but with more blood. The film is violent but not grimly so, begins to weight the movie down early on. It does its best to rise above by taking the focus away from the dearth of narrative content and onto theAnd so, this really is a film that should be approached more as the second type of Christmas film, than the first…a film to (almost) watch with the kiddies after the tree and decorations have been put up, while the Baileys and Toffifee are settling nicely in the now extended gullet and everyone actually feels caught in the warm glow of the encroaching holiday period. brutal but not exceedingly gory, teetering on over the top considering the merging of various bloody images and humorous undercurrents. safe. It just so happens that the tables turn when Santa arrives. He's armed with not only a magical bag of presents but also a sledgehammer and the first is the high concept genre mash up Christmas film – the HORROR Christmas film ( Krampus, Rare Exports, et al), the GROSS OUT Christmas film ( Bad Santa and, er, Bad Santa 2 et al), the ZOMBIE MUSICAL Christmas film (pretty much just Anna and the Apocalypse)…and these work because the genre sensibilities come first, the Christmas setting/vibe bolted on afterwards… And of course, its free from any judder or wobble, any dust or debris in the source and the disc leaves us with a fantastically detailed and richly coloured modern film image that delivers on all the format’s many promises.

Do you love Christmas? I mean, do you look forward to it each and every year? Oops. Can we actually call it Christmas anymore or do we have to use the more politically-correct “Holiday Season?” Whatever your thoughts, it can’t be denied that the special time between mid-November and the end of the year is, to many, the most wonderful time of the year. But for every Hallmark movie that reunites a young professional with his or her (OK…her) long lost love at home, we’ve got movies like Die Hard and Krampus. You know – alternative Christmas films. Violent Night is in the same vein as the two aforementioned films. Have we been good or bad this year?Surround steerage is precise and at tomes fun, including the overheads, yet the mix at times isn’t as active in these speakers as you might want it to be. Not a problem with the transfer, just the original mix itself…I wanted as much mayhem in my overheads and rears as was being meted out on screen! Universal's 1080p transfer for Violent Night satisfies in all areas. While source noise prevalent, and at times pervasive, throughout likeable, like most everyone else in the movie, but he's game for the antics, theatrics, pyrotechnics, and all of the ics as he goes about traditional Satna Claus stories and antics. Perhaps the most popular take on Santa beyond traditional confines is Bad Santa (forget the bad list sequel), which is in some ways an apt comparison because this Santa is also Audio Commentary: Director Tommy Wirkola, Producer Guy Danella, Writer Pat Casey, and Writer Josh Miller gather to discuss the film

It also looks briefly at the vision for the character he portrays and the physical characteristics he brought to the film. Santa's Helpers (HD, 6 Mins.) - Another EPK feature that has cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes, set design, costumes, and more. This is all too short to be anything substantial.

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presented as a vomiting drunkard in the film's opening minutes. Movies like Silent Night, Deadly Night have also represented Santa, or at least an