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Silent Night, Deadly Night Director Charles Sellier RIP

Charles Sellier (sel-ee-AY'), producer of Christian films and creator of the book and televion series "The Life and Time of Grizzly Adams," has died. He was 67.

Genre fans wil know Charles best by lent Night, Deadly Night which is a 1984 slasher film directed by Charles Sellier and starring Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Britt Leach and Leo Geter.

It focuses on a young boy who, after witnesng his parents' brutal murder at the hands of a man clad in a Santa suit on Christmas, grows up tumultuously in a Catholic orphanage and slowly emerges into a spree killer himself. The film caused an uproar when released in 1984 during the holiday season, and has nce developed a devoted cult following.

Darryl Howard, director of sales and marketing for Sellier's production company, says Sellier died unexpectedly in his home near Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, on Monday. Howard declined to specify the cause of death.

Sellier produced dozens of family-friendly films and televion shows, many of them with religious themes. They include "In Search of Noah's Ark" and "Mark Twain's America."

But he was perhaps best known for creating Grizzly Adams, a fictional book and televion character who flees bounty hunters and recues a bear cub that grows into a companion.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph2qpWw7nZI
Horror Domain - Cursed Evil Overlord Thursday 2/03/2011 at 01:01 PM | 71324
R.I.P. Charles Sellier and thank you for a kick ass movie and Grizzly Adams.
cropsy Thursday 2/03/2011 at 01:43 PM | 71328
Not familiar with his other work but i love lent night deadly night. RIP Charles Sellier
MiLeSx13x Thursday 2/03/2011 at 04:02 PM | 71340
Very sad news
LoomisLives2010 Thursday 2/03/2011 at 06:23 PM | 71349
RIP!!!!!! I LOVE, LOVE "lent Night, Deadly Night" and I still call every fat old hairy guy with a beard "Grizzly Adams".
ny ghoul Friday 2/04/2011 at 02:09 AM | 71365
I love lent Night, Deadly Night and this is really sad news!
weaponx Saturday 2/05/2011 at 11:00 PM | 71434
R.I.P. - You will be missed.
skutterk Monday 2/07/2011 at 05:41 PM | 71508