SCREAMBOX Brings ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ to Halfway to Halloween Lineup

Silent Night, Deadly Night returns with a brutal holiday twist as SCREAMBOX anchors its Halfway to Halloween slate.

SCREAMBOX is leaning all the way into “Halfway to Halloween,” and instead of just padding the library, they’re anchoring it with something that already has a built-in reaction waiting for it.

Cineverse announced that Silent Night, Deadly Night will stream exclusively on SCREAMBOX starting April 28, bringing Mike P. Nelson’s reimagining of the controversial ‘80s slasher back into the spotlight. And if you know the history of that title, you already understand the lane this is stepping into—holiday horror that’s not trying to play nice.

Directed and written by Nelson (Wrong Turn, V/H/S/85), the film follows Billy, played by Rohan Campbell, whose childhood trauma turns into an annual cycle of violence every Christmas. This version pushes a slightly different angle, folding in a relationship dynamic with Ruby Modine’s Pamela, adding a layer of conflict that sits right next to the bloodshed instead of replacing it. It’s still built on the same question the franchise always asked—“Have you been naughty?”—just reframed for a newer audience.

The move makes sense. SCREAMBOX isn’t trying to outsize the bigger platforms—they’re curating for a very specific crowd. And Silent Night, Deadly Night, especially with its Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh status, gives them something recognizable, a title that carries both legacy and conversation.

But this isn’t a one-title push. The rest of the lineup fills in around it with a mix that stays consistent with what SCREAMBOX has been doing—genre variety without losing identity.

Bloody Bites returns with new seasons, continuing that short-form pipeline that keeps the platform active between feature releases. Titles like Kenneled and Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round lean into offbeat, character-driven horror, while Shaman and The Morrigan tap into more supernatural and folklore-driven territory. Then there’s DRAGN, which shifts into tech-based horror, centering on an AI drone turning a retreat into a hunt.

It’s not one tone. It’s a spread.

And that’s really the strategy here. Keep the recognizable anchor up front, then build around it with enough range to keep people moving through the platform. Add that to an existing library that already includes Terrifier 2, Terrifier 3, Hell House LLC, Street Trash, and The Toxic Avenger, and SCREAMBOX continues to position itself as a place that doesn’t need to explain what it is.

It just needs to keep feeding it.

Silent Night, Deadly Night hits SCREAMBOX April 28, with new titles rolling out through June as part of the “Halfway to Halloween” push.