Silent Night, Bloody Night (1973)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2003
SYNOPSIS: No, not Silent Night, DEADLY Night. This one's bloody, not deadly. Well...it's deadly, too. It's about a house and the legacy of evil that's plagued it through the ages. It's not haunted so much as the site of a bunch of crazy murders...it was a private home that got turned into an asylum from which the inmates escaped and murdered the staff and the director's daughter. Then all the crazies got sane (it's never explained how) and became model townsfolk. Now, years later, someone's selling the house and picking off the former inmates one by one. A truly sad, sad performance by John Carradine. He has a total of ONE croaked word: either they couldn't afford to pay him scale for a speaking part, or he really does suffer from throat cancer.
Bryan Cassidy