Film critic Gene Siskel roasts the people who made the 1984 film “Silent Night, Deadly Night”: “You people have nothing to be proud of.”
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I’ve been rewatching a ton of Siskel & Ebert in the last year thanks to a YouTube channel who keeps uploading oodles of episodes, and while I was never a fan of either of these blowhards when I was growing up in the 80s, Siskel comes across as a real bully and a snob these days.
Fuck that guy.
What a prick! Silent Night Deadly Night is a classic and who could forget the sequel Silent Night Deadly Night 2… “GARBAGE DAY!”
I still remember people picking theaters when it came out. Of course because of that theaters had lines around the block to see it.
Never was a huge Siskel fan. Ebert was always my jam. I would buy his year end big review book. Still love reading his reviews. Such a massive hole in film criticism since TheRog passed.
What a ringing endorsement. They should’ve made that their commercial
Punish! PUNISH!
They don’t make critics like Ebert & Siskel anymore. that was back when journalism and movie criticism were seen as prestige companions to art and film
These guys were such pussies. Film critics sucked as much then as they do now. They’re nothing more than snobbish high-falutin douchebags who don’t understand what audiences want or what filmmakers are trying to accomplish, of who most are hacks which couldn’t cut it in the business in the first place.
Reagan era propaganda.
Siskel and Ebert are funny guys, oftentimes you can learn about film as an art from their discussions. But, just as often, they espouse lame, oldhead, rich white guy garbage.
Santa is a fictional character who was popularized by a enormous super Corp to push sales. He’s not a religious figure. Having him hold and axe in a movie is not a big deal dude don’t be such a pussy.
“Your profits truly are blood money.”
I mean, only if people actually died in the making of the film. Prop blood doesn’t count.
I remember watching this when it aired, because I’m old. Gene & Roger were never very kind to horror films in general, slashers in particular, but even for them, this was over the top. It’s like geez, Gene, switch to decaf. 😆
Due to protests in front of theaters and reviews like this, “SN, DN” was pulled from theaters after only a week or two, which of course turned it into a must see.
When it was released on video the following year, the VHS box called it “The Movie THEY didn’t want you to see!”
This is great!
I love how Gene Siskel not only calls out the studios responsible but names the writer, director and producer. No one in the media has the balls to do that today.
Gene would have crushed on the net. He was a twitter troll long ago.
Garbage day!!!!
Yeah the 1st one was fun back in the 80’s with all the other slasher movies. Didn’t they make 3 or 4 sequels?
“Your profits truly are blood money”
Either he doesn’t know what truly means or he doesn’t know what blood money means.
What a hater
Siskel and Ebert were notorious for pearl clutching about slasher films. Ebert hated other films like When a Stranger Calls just as much.
People back then weren’t as generally desensitized to endless screen bombardment and mediation of emotion through video as we are these days, so they reacted in ways that seem quaint or bizarre nowadays to these things. See also: people fainting in The Exorcist screenings and similar cases.