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Films like Silent Night.

Silent Night (2012) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Simon Says (2007) poster
1. Simon Says2007

Keeps the chilly detachment and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008) poster
2. Return to Sleepaway Camp2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Urge (2016) poster
3. Urge2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Primeval (2007) poster
4. Primeval2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dead Tone (2007) poster
5. Dead Tone2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mr. Jingles (2006) poster
6. Mr. Jingles2006

Keeps the chilly detachment and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Furies (2019) poster
7. The Furies2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hell Ride (2008) poster
8. Hell Ride2008

Keeps the chilly detachment and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Most Likely to Die (2015) poster
9. Most Likely to Die2015

Keeps the chilly detachment and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Give 'em Hell, Malone (2009) poster
10. Give 'em Hell, Malone2009

Keeps the chilly detachment and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018) poster
11. Death Race: Beyond Anarchy2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Banana Splits Movie (2019) poster
12. The Banana Splits Movie2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are Silent Night’s neighbours — where are yours?

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