So, at last year’s Mercury Xmas party white elephant gift exchange I infamously gifted an axe. Which was great. Including the part where publisher Rob Crocker hacked a wooden duck to pieces in the middle of the party. Couldn’t script something like that if you tried.

I thought it was all over. I thought the white elephant was dead. There was talk of escalation. Who would bring a gun this year? Well, the accursed exchange happened but it just didn’t have the moxy that last year’s did. We called it in. Cest la vie.

There’s still hope though. Check it out, the maniacs at the the Grindhouse Film Festival are presenting the 1984 Christmas slashterpiece Silent Night, Deadly Night! tonight only at 9pm at the Hollywood Theatre, In glorious 35mm!

Check the press realese:

Gather round children, it’s that time of year again…we’ll hear crazy grandpa’s tales of a psychopathic Santa, we’ll see the cheesy montage scene, the gratuitous nudity, the sledding beheading, and of course, Billy’s maniacal killing spree accompanied by the extreme violence and his cries of “Punish!…PUNISH!”

Originally released on Christmas day, this violent tale of an axe wielding psycho in a Santa suit was promptly banned from theaters in a matter of days. Also a side note: Robert Rodriguez credits the crazy grandpa scene as being his favorite monologue in the history of cinema!

How does this tie-in to the axe story besides the on-screen murderin’?

They’re picking one lucky audience member who will receive a custom double bladed axe! If you’re lucky, you could go on your own Christmas day kill crazy rampage!

Jesus, I’m so there.