When I was 7 or 8, my mother let me rent this. I watched the first half with both of my parents while they frantically tried to fast forward through the sex scenes. I think they gave up and turned the movie off, just as they did with Madonna's "Blonde Ambition" show on HBO (I'll never get over that!) I'm pretty sure that this is the first time I ever saw breasts in any context, and seeing them in the context of sexualized violence probably messed with my head, just like it did little Billy's. I have a memory of this being one of the scariest movies I have ever seen, so it is funny to revisit it almost 20 years later and find that it is nothing more than a harmless 80s slasher. The DVD has snippets of articles/reviews written about how irresponsible and inappropriate the movie was and about people who protested the movie and its advertisements, which are amusing in retrospect. I enjoyed revisiting this movie, if only for nostalgic reasons and its attempts to be a little different from the standard 80s slasher.
Review of Silent Night, Deadly Night
