Silent Night, Bloody Night

Silent Night, Bloody Night
Silent Night, Bloody Night film poster
Directed by	Theodore Gershuny
Produced by	Ami Artzi Jeffrey Konvitz Lloyd Kaufman Frank Vitale
Screenplay by	Theodore Gershuny Jeffrey Konvitz Ira Teller
Story by	Theodore Gershuny Jeffrey Konvitz Ira Teller
Starring	Patrick O'Neal James Patterson Mary Woronov John Carradine
Music by	Gershon Kingsley
Cinematography	Adam Giffard
Edited by	Tom Kennedy
Production company	Armor Films Inc. Cannon Productions Jeffrey Konvitz Productions Zora Investments Associates
Release date	November 1972
Running time	85 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$295,000 (estimated)

Silent Night, Bloody Night (Also released as Night of the Dark Full Moon and Death House) is a 1972 American horror film directed by Theodore Gershuny and co-produced by Lloyd Kaufman. The film stars Patrick O'Neal and cult actress Mary Woronov in leading roles, with John Carradine in a supporting performance. The plot follows a series of murders that occur in a small town on Christmas Eve after a man inherits a family estate which was once an insane asylum.

Many of the cast and crew members were former Warhol superstars: Mary Woronov, Ondine, Candy Darling, Kristen Steen, Tally Brown, Lewis Love, filmmaker Jack Smith and artist Susan Rothenberg. It was filmed in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York in 1970 but was not released theatrically until 1972.

On Christmas Eve 1950, Wilfred Butler runs out of his rural house and appears to have been set on fire. He collapses in the snow and is believed to be dead.

Twenty years later, lawyer John Carter and his assistant Ingrid arrive in a small Massachusetts town on Christmas Eve. John meets with the town's nobles, Mayor Adams, Tess Howard, Sheriff Bill Mason and Charlie Towman. Towman had a tracheotomy and cannot speak yet still smokes cigarettes.John is revealed to be the lawyer of Jeffrey Butler, Wilfred's grandson, and is trying to sell the Butler mansion for $50,000 by noon the next day. After a call to his wife, John is revealed to be having an affair with Ingrid. The two stay the night at the Butler mansion, unaware that they are being watched. After dinner, the two go upstairs to a bedroom to have sex. The mysterious person walks in on them and kills them both with a felling axe. The killer calls the police and reveals himself to be "Marianne."