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Violent Night: A sequel is already being planned with possibly Noomi Rapace as Mrs. Claus

Posted 4 years ago

Violent Night is one of many tongue-in-cheek genre-twisting movies to involve Christmas. It’s also a movie that went up against big Hollywood releases such as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and turned heads when it still performed better than estimated despite...

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Violent Night Interviews: David Harbour, John Leguizamo & Tommy Wirkola on making a future holiday classic

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Everyone loves a good Christmas action flick. Die Hard, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Batman Returns – the list goes on and on. There’s nothing that gets us into...

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Violent Night featurette goes behind-the-scenes of David Harbour holiday thriller

Posted 4 years ago

David Harbour of Stranger Things and Black Widow plays Santa Claus in Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola’s R-rated holiday thriller Violent Night, which has been described as a perfect combination of gore and Christmas spirit. Universal will be giving the film a theatrical release on December 2nd, and...

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Violent Night trailer for David Harbour’s holiday-themed action film comes to town on Wednesday

Posted 4 years ago

I hope you’ve been a good movie fan this year because Universal Pictures is about to bring us the gift of a Violent Night trailer later this week. According to reports, a trailer for the upcoming holiday-action thriller comes to town on...

Horror Movie News

Violent Night: David Harbour is a bloody Santa in poster for holiday thriller

Posted 4 years ago

David Harbour of Stranger Things and Black Widow plays Santa Claus in Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola’s R-rated holiday thriller Violent Night, which is set to reach theatres on December 2nd. Our own Chris Bumbray got to see a “demented” trailer for...

Horror Movie News

Violent Night: David Harbour is Santa in thriller, trailer shown at CinemaCon was action packed & demented

Posted 4 years ago

JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray got to watch a lot of cool trailers at CinemaCon in Las Vegas tonight. He saw previews for Halloween Ends, Jordan Peele’s Nope, the James Wan / Blumhouse production M3GAN, the Idris Elba vs. a man-eating...

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Violent Night: Cam Gigandet, Edi Patterson join David Harbour in Tommy Wirkola’s holiday thriller

Posted 4 years ago

Back in November, it was announced that David Harbour of Stranger Things and Black Widow would be starring in Violent Night, a holiday thriller coming to us from Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola. Since then, John Leguizamo (Land of the...

JoBlo Originals

Dead Snow (2009) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Cody A new episode of our video series Best Foreign Horror Movies has just been released online under the Revisited banner, and you can check it out in the embed above. In this one, we’re taking a look back at...

Horror Movie News

Violent Night: David Harbour teams with Dead Snow director for holiday thriller

Posted 5 years ago

Universal has announced (via The Hollywood Reporter) that they will be releasing a “coal dark holiday thriller” titled Violent Night on December 2, 2022. They didn’t reveal many details about the project beyond that, but what they did reveal was...

Noomi Rapace and Tommy Wirkola reteam for Norwegian thriller The Trip

Posted 6 years ago

A few years ago, DEAD SNOW / HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS director Tommy Wirkola and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Swedish version) / PROMETHEUS star Noomi Rapace teamed up for the Netflix sci-fi flick WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY,...