The Night Before Christmas 3 (2022 Film)

The Night Before Christmas 3  is a 2022 American Christmas Adventure Film, based off of the legendary folkloric character,  Santa Claus, and the 1970 stop-motion film,  Santa Claus is Comin' to Town , and is the sequel to the 2018 film, The Night Before Christmas and the 2022 film, The Night Before Christmas 2, premiering in theaters on December 21, 2022. The third of four installments, followed by the 2024 sequel,  The Night Before Christmas 4, the film stars Dylan Sprayberry, Peyton Meyer, Jadin Gould, and Michael Rosenbaum, and continues to retell the origin of Santa Claus, following the life of young adult, Kris Kringle, who continues to deliver gifts on a day he dubbed Christmas, but now a dark force is rising, known as Pitch Black, so he gains help from a reindeer named Rudolph, who is outcasted due to his strange red glowing nose.

Premise
A few years after the previous film, Christmas day is growing closer and closer, as Kris Kringle prepares to marry Jessica Dunham and his elves work to make toys, unaware of the growing threat, an evil creature named Pitch Black, who controls darkness and nightmares, and only wishes to cause chaos among the people of Earth, by first destroying Christmas, than Kris Kringle himself. Kris sees no way to beat him, until he meets a young reindeer named Rudolph, was outcasted by the others, due to his strange glowing red nose, which they learn has a mystical light powerful enough to cast out any darkness created by Black.

Cast

 * Dylan Sprayberry as Kris Nicholas Kringle/Claus,  the adoptive son of a couple of toymakers, Jonathan and Carla Kringle, who was raised on a farm, playing with the toys and learning to make them. Now he uses his reindeer to deliver toys made by his elves to people all over the world, in a day that has come to be known as Christmas. Now he must get help from a young reindeer to stop a nightmare controlling creature.
 * Peyton Meyer as the voice of Rudolph, a young reindeer, that was born with a strange red nose, that often glows, causing him to be outcasted by the others. When the other reindeer were hurt or gone, Rudolph was the only one able to help Kris, learning that his mystical red nose gives off a light powerful enough to vanquish Black's darkness.
 * Jadin Gould as Jessica Dunham-Kringle, Kris' girlfriend, later fiancee, who lives with him in the winter forest in his fortress. In this film, she begans preparing for her and Kris' wedding, as Kris continues to deal with Pitch Black. She if very supportive of Kris and is proud of what he does.
 * Michael Rosenbaum as Pitch Black, an evil mystical being that controls the darkness and nightmares all over the world, and only wants to make chaos, and starts by destroying Christmas and Kris Kringle. Though he succeeds at first, he is defeated when Rudolph's light expels his darkness.