Violent Night

• Action
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Thriller

A darkly comedic and aggressively unconventional action-fantasy, *Violent Night* dismantles the comforting tropes of the holiday season with gleeful abandon. When a mercenary team invades a wealthy family’s Christmas Eve gathering, they encounter a spectacularly disillusioned and surprisingly capable Santa Claus who’s had enough of spoiled children and cynical materialism. What unfolds is a brutally inventive, spectacularly chaotic battle for survival fueled by equal parts festive spirit and explosive violence—a subversion of the ‘hero saves Christmas’ narrative, where Santa becomes the unhinged instrument of righteous, albeit extreme, justice. The film doesn’t offer saccharine sentiment, but instead a surprisingly cathartic release through its over-the-top action, examining themes of familial dysfunction and the lost magic of believing, punctuated by a cynical yet ultimately defiant holiday spirit.