Happy Christmas, everybody. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. I'm Mike Munser, your host,

and I'm bringing you a little bonus episode this week, because this week sees the release of the new

movie Silent Night, Deadly Night. This is the kind of reboot remake of the 1984 slasher classic

written and directed by Mike P. Nelson. It's going to be in cinemas from

the 12th of December. That's this Friday. And so I thought this was a nice opportunity to do

something a little bit festive and revisit the original Silent Night, Deadly Night. It's been about five years since I last

watched and discussed that movie. And I thought, what better time to go back and revisit that 80s

classic? So I sat down with Friend of the Pod, Becky Dark, to discuss Silent Night, Deadly

Night, 1984 in depth. So you're going to hear that discussion in a little bit.

But first of all, here is my interview with the director of the new Silent Night Deadly Night,

Mike P. Nelson. This is a spoiler-free discussion. We just talk a little bit about making the film

and why Christmas and horror go so well together.

Mike P. Nelson. Hello. How are you doing? It's good to be here, Mike. It's so good to have you

here. Merry Christmas. I want to talk to you a little bit about Christmas horror generally,

first of all, before we get into the movie. Why has Christmas always been such a perfect backdrop for horror, do you think?

I mean, I think it is, it is because there's like a strange juxtaposition of like how warm and cozy and, you know, people coming together and there's just a good feeling.

Yeah.

And then putting it together with something that's such a bad, a bad thing.

And like how, and I think that, that it strangely doesn't butt heads as much as you'd think.

It actually kind of comes together.

I also feel like there is a strange, Christmas has always been, there's also kind of like a weird mystery.

Even some of the music is a little bit creepy, you know, like Santa Claus is like a very joyous

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