“Makes no damn sense, compels me though”. Not to be confused with ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ although this movie has went by many other titles. The TUBI listing has it as ‘Silent Night, Bloody Night’ but the copy of the film, which I do say is very poor quality title card reads ‘Deathouse’.
I must admit, was incredibly hard to follow since the sound quality was quite poor and TUBI’s autogenerated subtitles kept giving characters multiple names because of it; Tess for example was called Jess many times. Jeff was called Jack once, I recall. As this movie has a lot of exposition, it can make it incomprehensible. I did have to get out the good old wikipedia to make sure I understood what I just watched.
But I like it. Something about it compelled me. There’s something to a 1970’s low budget movie than a modern low budget movie, because this has so many creative shot. There’s an entire flashback sequence that is shot like a silent film. It’s quite eerie. They do some POV from the killer’s perspective shots predating the likes of ‘Black Christmas’ and ‘Halloween’. I must admit Carter and his mistress’ kill by the first 20 minutes caught me off guard, really reminded me of the first time I witnessed Marion Crane’s cruel fate in ‘Psycho’ after thinking she was going to be the main character for the whole film.
It’s brutal, it’s bloody, it’s atmospheric. Recommend it.
“Makes no damn sense, compels me though”. Not to be confused with ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ although this movie has went by many other titles. The TUBI listing has it as ‘Silent Night, Bloody Night’ but the copy of the film, which I do say is very poor quality title card reads ‘Deathouse’.
I must admit, was incredibly hard to follow since the sound quality was quite poor and TUBI’s autogenerated subtitles kept giving characters multiple names because of it; Tess for example was called Jess many times. Jeff was called Jack once, I recall. As this movie has a lot of exposition, it can make it incomprehensible. I did have to get out the good old wikipedia to make sure I understood what I just watched.
But I like it. Something about it compelled me. There’s something to a 1970’s low budget movie than a modern low budget movie, because this has so many creative shot. There’s an entire flashback sequence that is shot like a silent film. It’s quite eerie. They do some POV from the killer’s perspective shots predating the likes of ‘Black Christmas’ and ‘Halloween’. I must admit Carter and his mistress’ kill by the first 20 minutes caught me off guard, really reminded me of the first time I witnessed Marion Crane’s cruel fate in ‘Psycho’ after thinking she was going to be the main character for the whole film.
It’s brutal, it’s bloody, it’s atmospheric. Recommend it.
