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TIL that Mickey Rooney condemned the slasher movie Silent Night, Deadly Night, calling its makers "scum" for coming up with a killer in a Santa Claus suit... then ironically ended up playing another killer in a Santa Claus suit years later in Silent Night, Deadly Night 5.

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