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Michael Hickey

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Nationality USA
Birth at Manhasset (USA)

Michael Hickey, originally of Manhasset, New York, is a screenwriter best known for the screenplay of the horror film Silent Night, Deadly Night. Hickey's controversial screenplay focused on a serial killer who, disguised as Santa Claus, takes the lyric "He knows if you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake" rather too literally.

Hickey also authored the stage play Murrow about the life of newscaster Edward R. Murrow, which premiered at the Bristol Riverside Theater in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Hickey directed a production of the play at the Producers Club in New York City under the title A Question of Loyalty in 1998.

Hickey received a screen credit ("special thanks") on the restored version of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 "Vertigo" in recognition of his contribution to the 1998 restoration of the film performed by Robert Harris and James Katz for Universal Pictures.

Hickey lives in Palm Springs, California.

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Filmography of Michael Hickey (3 films)

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Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Robot films
Actors Mickey Rooney, William Thorne, Lilyan Chauvin, Clint Howard, Britt Leach, Gilmer McCormick
Rating43% 2.1662452.1662452.1662452.1662452.166245
Late one night in December, a young boy named Derek Quinn (William Thorne) hears the doorbell ringing and goes downstairs and finds a Christmas present that has been addressed to him on the porch. His father Tom (Van Quattro) reprimands him for being up so late and opening the door, sending him off to bed. Instead Derek watches from the stairs as his curious father opens the gift. Finding a musical orb shaped like Santa Claus in the box he activates it, causing it to strangle him with retractable cords; as Tom struggles he slips and falls onto a fireplace poker, his impaled body being found by his wife Sarah (Jane Higginson) a few moments later.
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Christmas films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Comedy horror films, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Santa Claus in film
Actors Eric Freeman, Elizabeth Kaitan, Darrel Guilbeau, Frank Novak, Linnea Quigley, Lilyan Chauvin
Roles Characters
Rating39% 1.9563551.9563551.9563551.9563551.956355
The sequel picks up on Christmas Eve some years after the first one, with Ricky Caldwell, the 18-year-old brother of the first film's killer, is now being held in a mental hospital, awaiting trial for a series of murders that he committed. While being interviewed by the psychiatrist Dr. Henry Bloom, Ricky tells the story of the murders his brother Billy committed throughout a series of several flashbacks used footage from the original film, as well as some new shots inserted in the flashbacks to make Ricky appear in more of Billy's original story.
Silent Night, Deadly Night, 1h25
Directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about children, Christmas films, Serial killer films, Santa Claus in film
Actors Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Linnea Quigley, Britt Leach, Leo Geter, Will Hare
Roles Writer
Rating58% 2.9009252.9009252.9009252.9009252.900925
In 1971, on a visit to his institutionalized grandfather, who warned 5-year-old Billy Chapman that Santa Claus punishes the naughty, his family happens to come across a man in a Santa Claus outfit seemingly having car trouble. The man - actually a criminal who has just used that disguise to rob a liquor store after he kills a man and escaped - pulls a gun and mercilessly kills Billy's father in front of him and his infant brother Ricky, then slits their mother's throat with a switch blade, leaving the children alive. Three years later, Billy and Ricky are celebrating Christmas in an orphanage run by Mother Superior, a strict disciplinarian, who persistently strikes children who misbehave and considers punishment for their wicked actions as a good thing. Sister Margaret seems to be the only one who sympathizes with the children, trying to get Billy to open up and play with the children, but they are constantly under Superior's scrutinizing eye and they regularly end up getting punished.