Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) **1/2

There is definitely some fun to be had in this update and I appreciate that it did its best to set itself apart from the 1984 original [review] (other than the obvious but expected callbacks), but it leaned too hard on the Dexter angle and did that whole going-for-gravitas-while-also-eating-its-exploitation-cake thing that a lot of modern horror films attempt and don't quite nail.