Violent Night

A key component of last year's action-comedy Violent Night was that the mythical Santa Claus would have to embrace an entirely overlooked set of skills, ...

You can check out the clip above and grab Violent Night on Digital HD today and on Blu-ray and DVD on January 24th. The original screenplay is by Pat Casey & Josh Miller, the writers of Sonic the Hedgehog. [mythical Santa Claus would have to embrace an entirely overlooked set of skills](https://comicbook.com/movies/news/violent-night-movie-streaming-peacock-david-harbour-santa-claus/), those of hand-to-hand combat, to take down a group of paramilitary intruders, but once star [David Harbour](/category/david-harbour/) took on the mantle of the iconic character, the filmmakers witnessed he brought his own magic to the role in unexpected ways.

David Harbour's "Violent Night", 2022's most violent Christmas film, makes its online streaming debut on Peacock.

Violent Night, along with all of the platform’s other titles, will only be available to customers with a paid Peacock subscription. When he grabs a sledgehammer, he becomes a death-wish version of Thor.” Defending Harbour’s casting, Gleiberman later states, “David Harbour gives off of a ping of likability, and that makes him the right actor to play a down-in-the-dumps, vengeance-is-mine Santa who is really, beneath his bloody mottled gray curls, the Christmas mensch we want him to be.” With his magic fading as a result of his own non-belief, Santa becomes Nikamund the Red, his badly-behaved original Viking persona, in order to save 7-year-old Trudy Lightstone (Leah Brady), her mother Linda (Alexis Louder), and her father Jason Lightstone (Alex Hassell) from a home invasion at a family reunion by brutally murdering the intruders, led by Mr.

Violent Night starring David Harbour is streaming on Peacock starting Jan. 20.

[ Peacock Premium](https://imp.i305175.net/c/256585/828265/11640?subId1=VR--&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacocktv.com%2Fsignin%3Freturn%3D%2faccount%2fplans%3fcid%3d2301libgenpkowneml20189%26utm_campaign%3d2301libgen%26utm_source%3dpk_pk_brz%26utm_medium%3down_eml_custeng_eml) which costs $4.99/month or $49.99/year. And it stars Harbour, the beloved actor in “Stranger Things” and the Red Guardian from “Black Widow.” So, you know it’s good. [review](https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/violent-night-review-david-harbour-1235444598/). [bringing in $11.8 million](https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/violent-night-opening-wakanda-forever-fourth-weekend-1235448567/) its opening weekend. [Violent Night](https://variety.com/t/violent-night/)” the Christmas action movie starring [David Harbour](https://variety.com/t/david-harbour/), is now streaming on [Peacock](https://imp.i305175.net/c/256585/828265/11640?subId1=VR--&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacocktv.com%2Fsignin%3Freturn%3D%252faccount%252fplans%253fcid%253d2301libgenpkowneml20189%2526utm_campaign%253d2301libgen%2526utm_source%253dpk_pk_brz%2526utm_medium%253down_eml_custeng_eml). Directed by Tommy Wirkola, and a screenplay by Pat Casey and Josh Miller, the film follows Harbour’s dissolute Santa Clause who instead of dropping off presents on Christmas Day, drinks his weight in alcohol, pees and pukes off the side of a sleigh and murders people in cold blood.