Actuakers
One of my all time favorites.
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Derry Herrera
Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
morrison-dylan-fan
Searching round on Amazon UK for a DVD of Silent Night,Deadly Night,I was shocked to find that the set containing the sequel,was cheaper than the edition which only contained the original!,which led to me once again,getting ready to find out how silent the night could be.The plot:Visiting a mental hospital, Dr. Henry Bloom goes to talk to Ricky Caldwell,who along with his now-dead brother Billy has spent his whole life in orphanages and mental hospitals,since they both witnessed their parents being killed by a man dressed up as Santa.Getting told by Bloom that today is Christmas Eve,Caldwell begins thinking about cutting the meeting short,so that he can escape the ward,and go on a deadly Christmas spree.View on the film:Filmed in 10 days & with the producer/studio furious over their plans not being followed,the screenplay by co-writer/(along with Joseph H. Earle/Dennis Patterson & Lawrence Appelbaum) director Lee Harry do well to pull the movie out of the corner,by using the old footage to set the outline up for the follow-up,where the writers deliver (unintentionally?) hilarious one liners with some surprisingly memorable killings.Locked up in the mental ward, Eric Freeman gives an extremely funny performance as Freeman,thanks to Freeman trying to make Caldwell look creepy,which ends up making Caldwell look like he really needs the bath room.Final view on the film:A film which instead of giving the viewer a silent night,will instead give the audience a night of laughter.
Dom Nickson
Truthfully I really enjoyed the 2nd half of the movie because it's new and it has the brother continuing on the legacy of the "Santa clause Killer" I think most people when they say this film sucks they are really referring to the first half when it is completely retelling the story of the first one which shouldn't have even been even 25 percent of the story. I think it should of built up after Ricky sees his brother die. Then Ricky from his childhood to his manhood where he ends up going insane because then you would of understood and it wouldn't have been too long. I really like the 2nd half because it's more comedic than the first and I truly liked it's sense of humor with lines like, "Garbage Day!", "Naughty This!", "I'm Really Mad Now!", "Good I love a chase!", and "I wanna talk about some OLD TIMES!". For me it's a 5 out of 10 for the 2nd half of the film that is. I really think it is an unappreciated movie when people say, "It flat out sucks!" Because the 2nd half wasn't that bad. If you watch it watch the 2nd half and skip the 1st half. You won't regret it!
PeterMitchell-506-564364
This was a no need for a horror sequel. An unbelievable amount of screen time is wasted on flashback footage in the first one, that stands superior to this trash. We have a way over acted Freeman as Ricky, the younger surviving brother of the first after the other maniacal brother was shot down in front of his young eyes, in it's finale. In this one, of all the nerve to have a movie, where mass murderer brother Ricky is being interviewed by a psychiatrist, out to find his motivations, among long intermittent flashbacks. When Ricky cracks in front of girlfriend Cayton, killing an ex, then Cayton, while continuing his rampage, shooting down neighborhood folk, save for a little girl, it's just futile and this massacre doesn't make sense. The way in which he kills his victims, apart from the ones who are shot, are just pathetic. Remember, it's a horror. Horror films require knives, etc, not guns, which made that massacre, incredibly stupid and totally out of whack. Somehow this sequel got all it's s..t wrong. I do admit, Freeman is fun to watch. Not so is this film, some of it's stars, and I'm really talking minor roles, mostly, giving such hammy performances, they ought to be hammered. The actors in the first one were so much better (professional). This film really goes nowhere or explain Freeman's motivations, as he's too far gone to level with the doc, or he's just too much of a sickopath, which just devalues it more. One stupid horror, sequel.
trashgang
Remember the end of Silent Night Deadly Night (1984) when Billy was shot, you could see the open ending when his younger brother Ricky was seen at the end, his face said enough, let's look out for part 2. But what a disaster part 2 is.If you haven't seen the original one then don't worry because almost the first 40 minutes are all scene's taken from the original one interfered with Ricky being questioned by a psychiatrist. Glad that Ricky told us about Jennifer, not seen in part 1 but then again, it all looked ridiculous. The ho ho ho was changed into ha ha ha and it just didn't work, the acting by Eric Freeman as Ricky was silly and even sometimes laughable. The last 40 minutes with Jennifer are boring and again stupid, it's when Ricky caught his Santa Claus clothes that I thought, finally but even then it wasn't my thing. He do picks up the axe but before that he just shoots everybody. Figure that one, a slasher with, sigh, a gun. It maybe sounds perverted but the nudity parts are the most interesting thing here. Again we do have an open ending when Ricky is laying on the ground and we do see a knife in the hands of a female Santa, again easy to spot who that is. But for me after seen the The Howling franchise being the worst franchise ever I stopped. There are more Silent Night, Deadly Nights out but knowing that Ricky (Bill Moseley) is brought back to live in part 3 says enough, so why the open ending?Again another perfect example that horror was dying at the end of the eighties with a lot of horrors without the horror (killings off-screen). Just like it says on the sleeve, the nightmare is about to begin but then in a negative way.Gore 0/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5
