The new action-comedy takes a brutally realistic approach to the task of taking down robbers.
The big difference inViolent Night?
“I still watch it every couple of Christmases, because it’s great.

Macaulay Culkin in ‘Home Alone’ and David Harbour in ‘Violent Night’.Everett Collection; Allen Fraser/Universal Pictures
But we’ve long talked about the fact that all of his booby traps are so unbelievably brutal.
“That was also very much from the pitch,” says Miller of Trudy’s booby traps.
“The crazy thing is that our sequence is only a hair more violent,” Miller continues.
“It’s just that the consequences are realistic.”
The cast ofViolent Nightalso includes John Leguizamo and Beverly D’Angelo.
Watch the trailer forViolent Nightbelow.
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