Its characters certainly have charm Simon running around the yard haplessly trying to free the chickens, and looking much like a chicken himself, is adorable. “Silent Night” is colder and less forgiving. “The Big Chill” loved its aging boomer cast and their nostalgic friendships. It’s like “The Big Chill,” except everyone dies. Nell (Keira Knightley) and her husband, Simon (Matthew Goode), host one last Christmas party for a group of their school friends.
The British government has issued euthanasia pills to (almost) everyone so they can die with less pain. Poisonous storms sweep the landscape, and everyone caught in them dies in hideous agony. “Silent Night” is set in a near future in which the earth has experienced massive environmental collapse. The true horror is not that all the social rules crumble in the face of bloody catastrophe. As a result, her brilliant new end-of-the-world comedy, “Silent Night,” is more genuinely bleak than most zombie apocalypses. Director Camille Griffin understands that watching someone get their face torn off is often less upsetting than watching someone socially faceplant.
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