The countdown to Christmas continues with this week delivering top-tier events from A Charlie Brown Christmas Live to Ari Shapiro: Thank You For Listening and from Thunderpussy’s The Breast Is Yet to Come Tour to Ural Thomas and the Pain: Ural’s 85th Birthday Celebration.
TUESDAY
FILM
Silent Night, Deadly Night in 35mm
The Grindhouse Film Festival will present their annual 35mm screening of the feel-bad grindhouse slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night, which follows an axe-wielding Santa’s Christmas Eve punishment of the naughty-listers in town. Upon its ’84 release, people got fussy. The flick inspired what Variety described as a “rising chorus of protests” against its possibly “traumatizing” depiction of a splatter-happy Santa, and Siskel and Ebert shambled onto their soap boxes to shame the film’s production team. In other words, it’s a total blast if you’re into gnarly, low-budget, mean-spirited horror. (Fans of the latest Terrifier entry will be sick enough to dig it.) LINDSAY COSTELLO
(Hollywood Theatre, Hollywood District)
