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Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 [VHS]

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3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(12)

 

 

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!

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!

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

After my review of the first film, I did not think the sequel could be any worst...boy, was I wrong.

This 88 minute film rehashes the entire first film through flashback for the first 40 minutes. Not only does it cover the plot, it shows all the awful scenes that made the first one so bad.

This time out, adult Ricky is talking to a psychiatrist about his Santa dressing killer brother Billy in a mental hospital. It seems Ricky has a good memory, since he repeats scenes that neither him or his brother witnessed, and the film makers change the plot of the first film to suit their needs. Ricky also seems to have taken some classes on how to play a character completely wrong. His scenes with the psychiatrist are terrible.

Ricky kills the psychiatrist and escapes to take revenge on the first film's Mother Superior character. Ricky is set into murderous rages by the color red...you know that color, you probably go days on end without ever seeing it. I would hate to see Ricky's reaction at a four way stop intersection.

Ricky dresses like Santa, and begins hacking and killing. In the end, two bullets and a shotgun blast send him through a plate glass window, but he seems to survive, appearing in the next sequel. Just as awful as the first, and just as repugnant.

This is rated (R) for strong physical violence, strong gun violence, some sexual violence, gore, strong profanity, female nudity, sexual content, and some sexual references.

Half of "Silent Night, Deadly Night P2" is footage taken from the previous entry. (Ricky) Psychotic Killer's younger brother goes on a killing spree (just like his dead brother) again in a Santa Claus suit...
Nothing new, the acting is awful & often hilarious.
The film is violent and often revolting. This time Mother Superior gets her head chopped...
Not for the casual viewers.

This is a needless, very embarrassing sequel. Half the footage is taken from PART 1. Here, hero's younger brother is out of the asylum doing the same old things his brother did. All those flashbacks get tiresome after a while. Very bad acting. The final scenes with Mother Superior are hilarious.

Silent night Deadly 2was a badly acted, unneccesary sequal. The flashback scenes of Linnea Quigley topless had nothing to do with the story line and was just used for some nudity. I would like to know how the hell mother superior got all those wierd scars on her face. Anyway a bad movie with bad actors. A totally bad sequal.

I hated this movie! Most of it is from the first one as the brother of the original Santa Claus killer talks about his past(including a memorable cameo by scream queen Linnea Quigley as she's topless throughout her scene as she gets stabbed by some antlers of a deer head on top of a fireplace, which is one of the only good scene's). Then he talks about his deadly obsessive lifestyle. After that he decides to wear the santa suit and goes on a killing spree. Where do the people get the cash to make trashy movies like this?? Trying to borrow seasonal traditions of such slasher films as "Halloween","Friday the 13th", "My Bloody Valentine", and even "A Nightmare on Elm Street", this movie is the pits and deserves to get burned. Cast features Elizabeth (Cayton) Kaitan, who was more famous for her roles in "Assault of the Killer Bimbos" and "Friday the 13th Part VII: New Blood."

I look forward every year to Christmas time because that means that my buddy and I get to dust off his copy of Silent Night Deadly Night 2. It's become a tradition every December for us to watch the one Christmas movie that truly puts us in the holiday spirit.

First of all, how this movie wasn't nominated for an Oscar is beyond me. This is some of the best acting I've ever seen. The dialogue is terrific. Mesmerizing if I may say so.

There's no need to buy the SNDN part 1 because part 2 has all of the best scenes from the first one and so much more. There are some side-splittingly funny scenes like when this guy trys to rape this girl and she stops him, he says, "F this, I'm gettin' a beer". Moments later, he's run over about 30 tmes with his own Jeep Wrangler. Towards the end, the movie theatre scene is one for the ages. You even get to see a set of jumper cables hooked up to a '67 Mustang and placed into a guy's mouth.

Good luck finding a video store that actually carries this movie.

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This was a really good movie. I liked it enough to where I'd rent it again. I don't like it enough to where I'd actually pay more than 2 dollars to watch it. I haven't seen #s 3,4, and 5. I've heard that 4 and 5 aren't good. I don't know. When I see them I'll tell ya. I think the first silent night was much better. Billy killed people in such creative way. The deer head thru that girl's chest was funny. Yeah, I'm a typical teenage girl finding slasher films funny. That doesn't make me bad. It's entertainment. Although Even though the first was probably the best I have to compliment the second on it's interesting death of Mother-what's-her name. I'd definetly recommend renting this one! : )