Violent Night

Released on Friday

This year’s big screen festive offering is more off-beat than previous Christmases.

John Leguizamo is Scrooge, the leader of a group of mercenaries who attack the estate of a wealthy family on Christmas Eve.As the dysfunctional family – led by National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’s Beverly D’Angelo as the matriarch who makes her kids fight for her love – begins to panic, an unlikely saviour arrives in the form of a violent Santa Claus, played by Stranger Things’ David Harbour.