{"id":588,"date":"2013-11-03T22:03:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T22:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=588"},"modified":"2013-11-03T22:03:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T22:03:02","slug":"silent-night-deadly-night-wanted-dead-or-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Silent Night, Deadly Night \/ Wanted: Dead or Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Silent Night, Deadl<\/strong><strong>y<\/strong><strong> Night<\/strong><\/span> (1984)<\/p>\n<p>Classic 80s slasher flick, about a young man with a mortal fear of Santa ever since his parents were killed by a criminal wearing the costume.\u00a0 After taking a job at the local toy store and eventually being forced to dress up as Santa, he snaps and goes on a rampage punishing all the bad &#8216;children&#8217;.\u00a0 There are some pretty comical and suitably blood soaked deaths in here, and some great scenes too including one where he begrudgingly gives a blood stained knife to a small girl as a present, after finding she really hasn&#8217;t done anything bad all year.\u00a0 The film isn&#8217;t taking itself the least bit seriously, and neither is it an outright spoof &#8211; I had a great time with it.\u00a0 Ending could have been more satisfying but this is definitely one to catch!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wanted: Dead or Alive<\/span><\/strong> (1986)<\/p>\n<p>A bounty hunter is offered a huge payout to go after a middle eastern terrorist following the bombing of a busy cinema.\u00a0 Rutger Hauer is a bit of a hit &amp; miss actor, he&#8217;s played some amazing roles in films like Blade Runner, Sin City and of course Hobo With A Shotgun.\u00a0 This film &#8211; wow, it&#8217;s hopeless.\u00a0 The terrorists are caricatures who are impossible to take seriously, the script is poor and even Rutgers character is wooden, compounded by a definite off-day on the acting.\u00a0 The story and continuity are a mess too, in fact the only redeeming feature of the whole film is at the very end, where he pulls the pin out of a grenade placed firmly in the mouth of the lead terrorist.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so bad I don&#8217;t even mind spoiling it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) Classic 80s slasher flick, about a young man with a mortal fear of Santa ever since his parents were killed by a criminal wearing the costume.\u00a0 After taking a job at the local toy store and eventually being forced to dress up as Santa, he snaps and goes on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}