He sits alone at a bar, downing ale and liquor like theyre milk and cookies.
Yet the trick aboutDavid Harbours world-weary Father Christmas in the upcoming movieViolent Nightis hesnota bad Santa.
Hes a good Santa who feels bad about the Christmas culture around him.
And its a culture he might be complicit in.
He doesnt have the Spirit of Christmas.
She proves a cool customer for Scrooge to crack.
So this movie gives you that fantasy where everything around you at Christmas can be used as a weapon.
For Harbour though, the holiday season has always presented aFinal Destination-like collection of death traps.
Harbours director, meanwhile, favors when Santa turns a childhood delicacy into a lethal weapon.
Then its a decent stabbing weapon.
Wirkola is, of course, no stranger to mixing cozy wintertime imagery with genre carnage.
Harbour becomes animated as he also considers the scenario.
Im not kidding you!
And at the end of the movie, it feels likeMiracle on 34th Street!
It feels like we believe in Santa!
Only in this movie Kris Kringle gives the naughty their lumps.
Violent Nightopens Dec. 2.
