Product Details

• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Live / Artisan
• VHS Release Date: September 30, 1997
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300165760
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,448 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIES I EVER SAW, June 21, 2003

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Prago "bored & on the net" (Newark, DE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I completely agree with Derek below. Most people don't like this film because they were expecting a horror film. But if you look at it a little differently, get ready cause you're in for a treat. Forget Plan 9 From Outer Space, Robot Monster, etc. This is the true champ of "so bad it's good." I haven't laugh so hard in a long time. In fact, there were tears in my eyes from laughter at certain points. And the funny thing this wasn't even a comedy.

Where to begin? Let's start with Eric Freeman who's in the leading role of Ricky. To say he's overacting isn't enough. Words cannot describe it. Just watch any scene where he's talking to the psycharist and try to keep a straight face. While you try, look for the boom microphone making an appearance above his head.

Speaking of which, Ricky's session contists of half and hour of footage from the original film. His older brother, Billy was the killer in that film. Somehow, he manages to know what his brother did even though he wasn't present to witness a good chunk of this(in some cases, no surviving witnesses to tell the story). Silly as this sounds, this is only the beginning.

In Ricky's story, I learned a few details:
-You can run over a guy with a truck backwards and forward and get thanked by his girlfriend. The guy's crime was that he was a little too sexually aggressive with her. Nothing like a little roadkill to settle the score.
-You can take an umbrella and impale someone with it and yet the umbrella will be able to open.
-Somehow your girlfriend will just say, "I hate you, go away" right after you've fed her ex-boyfriend some battery electricity.
-Cops will still set up a road block when the killer is travelling by foot.

There's more I could go on about, but let me not spoil it for you. Just grab a few friends and a few beers and watch. One last thing, to everyone who's seen that film, I wish you a happy GARBAGE DAY!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Silent Night, Deadly Night 2???, August 8, 2002

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Have You Checked On The Children? (Inside Your House!!!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I saw the first Silent Night, Deadly Night and actually found it to be a pretty good film. It wasn't too gory, had a pretty well done plot, and delivered a few good thrills and chills along the way! Hey, what do you expect from the usual Class-B thrillers of the eighties?

So, I rented part 2, and I expected a pretty standard sequel. Expecting something that was Halloween 2 to Halloween 1 (higher body count, a few more revelations revealed, but obviously still B-class). Unfortunately, what I got was a clip show of gore from part 1 mixed in with the unfortunately terrible acting on the part of Ricky.

The plot of this movie seemed okay. From what I thought, Ricky the brother of the killer from the first movie, killed some people and was put into a mental institution for questioning. I thought it would flash back and forth in what he did and possibly reveal something that happened to him causing him to snap (besides his spooky ending speech in Silent Night Deadly Night 1).

The actor who plays Ricky is terrible. Everything that comes out of his mouth is honestly laughable. From his first words to when he tells the psychiatrist "Because........ I was there", I knew I had made a mistake in renting this. Ricky, proceeds to tell the well acted psychiatrist all about his brothers killings, things he wasn't there for so how would he know it! Then, he goes on talking about how he killed some people, the best one being a guy with an umbrella in an alley.

The murders in this movie are pretty pathetic. They are much more abundant than in the first movie, and not as well done as in the first one. He actually goes on a shooting spree in this movie, now how is that scary? I'm sorry, but there was no suspense and if he was trying to pull an American Psycho on us he failed miserably as he is nowhere near as easy to emphasize with as Patrick Bateman and Rachel Newman (American Psycho 1 and 2 GO SEE THEM!!!).

All in all, this movie is not worth a buy unless under $5. If you are curious rent it, but I just didn't care for the movie.

However, something did tell me to rent Silent Night, Deadly Night 3 Better Watch Out. Hopefully that will be better, as it was mentioned in last months Fangoria (May's Issue). It has Mulholland Drive's Laura Herring, a former Miss USA! I'll review that soon, but to all of you out there who read my reviews peace! I love y'all!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why was this movie made?, May 31, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie was actually made in 1967, not 1987. It was discovered in a can right after SNDN 1 was made, and what luck. Oh, the luck. The flashbacks were an exact fit with the 1984 "prequel" and the modernistic cars they used in '67 just happened to have been manufactured and sold, providing a seamless mesh with the prequel. The original purpose of this movie was two-fold: First, it was of course produced by the California Teachers Association in an effort to inspire children to make greater efforts to complete their homework assignments while at home, instead of watching movies. Second, it was to presell SNDN 3 through the use of Sister Mary. Whoa! We hope SHE will be back. Her 5-star scream at the end of this 1-star movie is all that kept the censors from killing this product due to X-rated dreariness. LATE_BREAKING GOOD NEWS! THIS VHS TREASURE IS OUT OF PRINT