Silent Night, Deadly Night remake casts Rohan Campbell as the killer Santa (2025)

Rohan Campbell is going from playing a Michael Myers copycat to playing a killer Santa Claus, as our friends at Bloody Disgusting have announced that the Halloween Ends star has been cast as Billy Chapman, who dons a Santa Claus costume and goes on a killing spree, in a remake of the classic Christmas slasher movieSilent Night, Deadly Night(watch itHERE).

Four years have gone by sincewe heardthat Orwo Studios and Black Hanger Studios, the folks behindJeepers Creepers: Reborn, were going to be making a reboot ofSilent Night, Deadly Night, and while those plans didn’t work out and Orwo Studios and Black Hanger Studios are no longer involved, aremake is still moving forward. Last November, we learned that the film will be coming our way from Cineverse, the company behind theTerrifierfranchise,with writer/director Mike P. Nelson at the helm. A couple of months ago, Sixth Dimension, the new in-house genre label at Studiocanal, picked up the global rights (excluding North America) to the project. The newSilent Night, Deadly Nightwill be heading into production soon, aiming to reach theatres by the end of this year. Cineverse will be releasing the film in North America.

Directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr. from a screenplay by Michael Hickey (with Paul Caimi receiving story credit), the originalSilent Night, Deadly Nighthas the following synopsis:Bearing the emotional scars of a young boy who has seen his mother and father brutally murdered by a savage killer in a Santa Claus costume, 18-year-old Billy explodes into a lethal frenzy – he’s asked to put on a Santa Claus suit himself to entertain the customers of the department store where he works. Reminded of the tragic events that have marked his life, Billy embarks on a killing rampage that is as ghastly – and controversial – as anything ever seen on film.Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Britt Leach, Nancy Borgenicht, Linnea Quigley, and Leo Geter star.

Nelson already has some reboot experience, having directed the 2021 version ofWrong Turn. His credits also includeThe Domesticsand a segment of the anthology filmV/H/S/85. The reimagining is being produced by Scott Schneid and Dennis Whitehead, executive producers of the original film, alongside Erik Bernard and New Dimension’s Jamie R. Thompson. Brandon Hill and Brad Miska are overseeing the project for Cineverse and serve as executive producers with Erick Opeka, Yolanda Macias, Anthony Masi, and Steven Schneider.

Sixth Dimension’s Jed Benedict provided the following statement: “At Sixth Dimension, our mission is to find bold, high-concept genre movies from great storytellers. We found exactly that in Mike P. Nelson’s thrilling vision and combined with the virtuoso Cineverse team, Jamie R. Thompson, the originalSilent Night, Deadly Nightproducers and Steven Schneider, this wildly entertaining reimagining will not only deliver on blood-splattered, axe-wielding festivities, but smuggles in a love story too. ‘Tis the season to be gory!“

Rohan Campbell previously told Collider, “I’m entirely enamored and in love with horror because it seems like the origin of some of the greatest weirdos on earth. Even the Coen Brothers started out with horror shorts and stuff like that. So, for me, it’s like my collection of weirdos that feel like me. So, my heart is in horror, truly. I’m obsessed with theCrystal Lakething that A24 is developing. AnythingFriday the 13thwould be unbelievable, but then also, you watchLonglegsand stuff, and just anything original, too. I really want to work with some young artists and make some smaller horror stuff and find some original ideas that are cool, too.” Campbell recently appeared in Longlegs director Osgood Perkins’ Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, and while we wait to hear if he’s going to land a role on Crystal Lake, now we know that we’ll get to watch him play a killer Santa in Silent Night, Deadly Night.

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