Silent Night, Bloody Night

(1974)

85 minutes

Horror / Thriller

Directed by Theodore Gershuny

Cast:

Patrick O'Neal as John Carter 
James Patterson as Jeffrey Butler 
Mary Woronov as Diane Adams 
Astrid Heeren as Ingrid 
John Carradine as Charlie Towman 
Walter Abel as Mayor Adams 
Fran Stevens as Tess Howard 
Walter Klavun as Sheriff Bill Mason 
Philip Bruns as Wilfred Butler in 1929  
Staats Cotsworth as Wilfred Butler's voice 
Ondine as Inmate 
Tally Brown as Inmate 
Lewis Love as Inmate 
Candy Darling as Guest 
Harvey Cohen as Inmate

Wilford Butler’s home has been transformed into a mental institution for the criminally insane when he returns on Christmas Eve. The same day he returns, he dies from being caught on fire. Everyone believes his death was an accident and the institution is closed down. He leaves the house to his grandson Jeffrey, inwhich he decides to sell the house a few years after. The Mayor along with everyone else feels no one should be near the house, especially when there is a serial killer on the loose. The killer stays in the house and threatens anyone who comes near it. Do his actions have anything to do with what happened to Wilfred years ago?