Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming

Name: Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming
Released: 2013
Duration: 79 min

21/100Festive FactorWhy it scores 21 ↓

UK certificate 1879 min
Horror

A cheap Welsh slasher that gets more from its Christmas deadline than its budget suggests.

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The CineClaus Christmas score

Festive Factor

A different kind of Christmas.

Two paper elves inspect a miniature dark mansion beneath a red lamp. Snow surrounds its gate, blank sign and porch, with amber lights trailing down the wall. — A little magic in the making.

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Christmas in the storyChristmas is the deadline.15/30

What we ask: Take Christmas out. Does the plot survive? Worth up to 30 of the 100 points.

A world dressed for ChristmasVisibly Christmas for a scene or two.0/20

What we ask: How much of the running time is visibly Christmas? Worth up to 20 of the 100 points.

The little seasonal details2 of the 10 kinds of Christmas icon we count turn up on screen.3/15

What we ask: How many kinds of Christmas icon turn up on screen: trees, lights, snow, carols and the rest? Worth up to 15 of the 100 points.

A Christmas heartHow far the ending rests on goodwill, family and belief: not at all.0/20

What we ask: Does the ending depend on what Christmas means: goodwill, family, redemption, belief? Worth up to 20 of the 100 points.

A returning traditionNiche at Christmas (under 25,000).3/15

What we ask: Is it actually watched at Christmas in the UK? Worth up to 15 of the 100 points.

11/100

Cosiness Rating Rating

Chilly in tone. Grim. A bleak ending.

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Festive Factor measures how Christmassy a film is. Five ingredients add up to 100: story (30), setting (20), seasonal details (15), emotional heart (20) and returning tradition (15).

Cosiness is a separate score for warmth of tone, sense of safety, visual comfort, a reassuring ending and how easily you can settle into it.

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United KingdomChecked 19 Oct 2026

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The story

About Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming

Wilfred Butler dies in a fire in 1987 and leaves his mansion to his grandson Jeffrey, with instructions that it be kept exactly as it is. Twenty-five years on, Jeffrey ignores the will and arranges to sell the house for cash, the money due on Christmas Day. As he and his lawyer arrive to close the deal, and a young journalist, Diane, digs into the family's past, someone with an axe is already living in the house. A low-budget Welsh slasher and an unofficial remake of the 1972 American film Silent Night, Bloody Night.

The CineClaus verdict

A cheap Welsh slasher that gets more from its Christmas deadline than its budget suggests.

The house sale due on Christmas Day gives the killings a clock to run against, and a murder with fairy lights is the one moment that properly uses the season. Elsewhere it is a dark old house, a masked man with an axe and some uneven acting from a local cast.

Fans of the 1972 original will find a respectful, rough-edged remake.

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