Violent Night

David Harbour's killer Santa action-comedy Violent Night drops on digital platforms (at premium VOD prices) just in time for Christmas.

There is also another huge impediment to the future box office success of Violent Night: the December 16 release of the long-awaited James Cameron sequel Avatar: The Way of Water. This is most likely a bid to get as many eyes on the film as possible before next year. [Violent Night](https://screenrant.com/tag/violent-night/) has made a surprise drop on digital platforms just ahead of Christmas on Sunday. [ComicBook.com](https://comicbook.com/movies/news/violent-night-now-available-streaming/), digital platforms have received an unexpected Christmas present in the form of a surprise [release of Violent Night](https://screenrant.com/violent-night-santa-naughty-list-plothole-explained/). Despite being so early its theatrical run, there are several reasons why Universal may have decided to put the film out digitally so early. This digital release comes less than three weeks after the film's December 2 theatrical premiere, allowing fans at home to experience the bloody cheer for themselves while gathering at home with their families.

Amid the deluge of sequels, remakes, and adaptations that suffuse theater screens, it's always refreshing to see a film that makes you think: How has nobody ...

During his rescue mission, Santa establishes a radio line with Trudy, who has managed to escape and hide in the attic. Bryan Adams sings, “Something about Christmas time / That makes you wish it was Christmas every day / To see the joy in the children's eyes,” as Santa revives his Viking spirit in a grisly showdown with the armed robbers. In a later scene, after suffering a knife wound to his hip (incurred while thrusting a tree-topper star through one of the mercenary kidnappers’ eyes and plugging the light into the electrical outlet, igniting his face), Santa takes his shirt off to stitch up his cut, revealing his scarred and tattooed chest. Wirkola cleverly applies the same idea to a Christmas movie, reimagining Santa as an immortal Norse berserker from the 11th century. With a pithy backstory established, the film wastes little time getting to the action. Dejected with the consumerist, video game-obsessed youth of the day, Santa has turned to alcohol.

Violent Night, with David Harbour as a badass Santa Claus, is the best Christmas movie of 2022 - here's where you can watch and stream it.

It’s priced at $19.99 for rental and $24.99 to purchase the movie. [here](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/violent-night-review-bad-santa-meets-die-hard-in-new-christmas-classic-1972428/), and our interview with director Tommy Wirkola about what to expect from the sequel [here](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/what-to-expect-from-violent-night-2-director-tommy-wirkola-teases-rudolph-and-mrs-claus-in-sequel-1987667/). We’re talking Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Scrooged, Krampus, The Night Before, Christmas Bloody Christmas, and more. You can check out our review of Violent Night Is Violent Night on streaming? Violent Night is available to buy or rent from

As many studios do now, if a film first makes a theatrical release, it eventually comes to streaming. Which streaming service will Violent Night be on?

However, since it’s a Universal Pictures film, the production will most likely stream on Peacock since the company is owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment division of NBCUniversal. Which streaming service will Violent Night be on? If you haven’t seen Violent Night on the big screens yet, you really need to!

Production Company: 87North Productions. Director(s): Tommy Wirkola. Writer(s): Pat Casey, Josh Miller. Cast: David Harbour, John Leguizamo, Alex Hassell, ...

Just watching this may have put me on the "Naughty List", but it sure is a lot of fun! As it says in the title, it is violent, with a lot of blood, gore, dismemberment, torture and brutal deaths. As mentioned, the plot of the film is great and the movie flows well with an excellent and fast paced rhythm. John Leguizamo is always fun to watch, and he does a great job as the leader of the thieves giving a great performance as the man who wants to kill Christmas! The production value of this film is good with some nice special effects and some well-choreographed fight scenes. On Christmas Eve, the audience finds that Santa (David Harbour) has become disillusioned with Christmas and specifically his place in this modern world that he finds solace in the bottom of a bottle.

The Gist: BELLCHH. It's Christmas Eve, and Santa's (Harbour) crocked. He laments how kids just want money and video games anymore.

But Violent Night hits the perfect tone for Christmas blasphemy, the movie equivalent of stepping out of the family party for a minute to sneak a shot of whiskey. This Santa could really use a fresh jolt of Christmas spirit, and he finds it in two things: a little girl’s innocence, and the sweet, sweet release of gratuitous violence. It’s not the first movie to flip the table on sentimental Christmas cheer, and follows its own formula of subversion – hey, lookit Santa, he’s barfing and bashing in skulls. Thing is, John McClane never whaled on the bad guys with a stocking full of pool balls or creamed thugs with a sledgehammer to the tune of ironic Christmas carols. Jason’s sister Alva (Edi Patterson) is also a Piece of Work who’s raising a Piece of Work influencer teen boy Bert (Alexander Elliot) and dating a Piece of Work actor (Cam Gigandet). The not-so-jolly old elf is smack in Harbour’s wheelhouse, and he and Leguizamo deliver spoofy hard-boiled action-movie one-liners with juicy aplomb. Granted, it indulges a couple of those feelings so it doesn’t fall into and get stuck in the depravity pit, but for the most part, it rebels against the feelgood slop of most holiday fodder. Santa catches wind of the shenanigans and before you know it, he’s kinda John McClaneing through the mansion while Scrooge Hans Grubers his way to the vault. [Amazon Prime Video](https://www.amazon.com/Violent-Night-David-Harbour/dp/B0B8JTLFMR?tag=decider08-20&asc_refurl=https://decider.com/2022/12/21/violent-night-stream-it-or-skip-it/&asc_source=web)) casts [Stranger Things](https://decider.com/show/stranger-things/) star David Harbour as a badass Santa who can handle his booze and his warhammer better than he handles his reindeer. He’s the real deal. Joy to the world for all the selfish entitled a-holes. [VIOLENT NIGHT](https://decider.com/movie/violent-night/): STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?