Silent Night, Deadly Night 2025 ending explained: You wouldn't want a Christmas Spirit like this

The second remake of the 1984 cult classic, Silent Night, Deadly Night, is here again to paint the floor red and decorate it with some guts. The killers in the movie have this kind of supernatural connection, like a spirit passing through them.

First, this Christmas Spirit, that comes as a man disguised as Santa, passes on to a child as if an electrical current, becoming a voice in their head. This child, when he grows up, passes this spirit on to his newfound girlfriend, keeping the momentum of the killing spree as the movie ends.

The film stars Rohan Campbell as the protagonist and an antivillain, Billy Chapman, alongside Ruby Modine as Pam, Mark Acheson as Charlie, and more. As of this writing, the film has been received well by the critics, according to the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, having a score of 81% at its Tomatometer.

We will now see what happens at the end of this gory delight.

What happens at the end of Silent Night, Deadly Night?

There is too much violence at the end of this second remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night. Our antivillain appears as he will live, but destiny has something else in mind.

Billy was just eight years old when he watched his parents die. His killer, who turns out to be a janitor, Charlie, working at his grandfather's care home, when touching Billy, somehow transfers what seems like an electrical impulse. Billy then starts to hear Charlie's voice in his head, kind of like a spirit guiding him. Only this spirit is guiding him to kill.

That almost sounds like what happens to a character of the same name in Stranger Things. Max's brother Billy is also guided by this voice and brings people to the Mind Flayer, who then kills them.

After this incident in Silent Night, Deadly Night, Billy goes on a killing spree and meets a girl named Sam, whose father was killed by a man, and she wants revenge. To this, Billy agrees to help. There is also another man called the Snatcher, a child abductor, who has been appearing in the news, and these two decide to find him. They find him hiding in a building, and Billy kills him. However, Billy is wounded during this fight.

It seems like our Silent Night, Deadly Night protagonist will survive, but is killed by Pam's ex-boyfriend, a cop who is investigating murders in the city and has developed suspicion of him after witnessing him at different crime scenes throughout the movie. This isn't it. As Billy dies, he grabs Pam's hand, and this 'Christmas Spirit' passes to Pam. The moment this happens, she kills Max. Later, we hear Billy's voice guiding him.

Of this ending, Rohan Campbell told RadioTimes that:

"I'm pretty positive that's what it is. I just can't think of like a more fun way to sort of set up a possible sequel than [that]. Imagine having your partner in your brain, hearing your thoughts and seeing what you're seeing. I think that's just the most fun way to set up another movie, if that happens. But yeah, what a crazy way to end it. I thought that was so fun."

There is no announcement regarding a Silent Night, Deadly Night sequel, but the ending did leave room for the story to grow.