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Tarfumes.com - Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
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List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $19.77
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Starring: Freeman, Newman, Kaitan
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300165762
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300165760
Label: Live / Artisan
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Live / Artisan
Release Date: 1997-09-30
Running Time: 88
Studio: Live / Artisan
Theatrical Release Date: 1987
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Decent sequel, but too much time spent on flashbacks
Comment: Basically this is a predictable follow-up to the fantastic 1984 Christmas slashfest 'Silent Night Deadly Night' which, naturally, passes the torch to Billy's younger brother, Ricky. Featuring a fantastic moody score (including a haunting, atonal theme) the film is entertaining but ends up spending about half the runtime in flashback of mostly scenes from the first flick as Ricky explains how he turned homicidal like his brother. The nasty Mother Superior returns once again near the end of the flick. If you liked the original, definitely see this one (I have yet to the other sequels, but I'm sure I'd recommend them as well). Nowhere near as good as the first one though.
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Summary: Garbage Day!
Comment: Well, if you've seen the first one, don't waste your time here, it's pretty much all the footage from the first one with about 20 minutes of horrible new stuff edited in with it. The only thing enjoyable about this movie is the incredibly horrible acting. Particularly "Garbage Day!"
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Summary: 2 1/2 stars
Comment: Ricky, little brother of the previous films Santa Clause killer. Picks up where Billy left off. Around half of the movie shows scenes from Part 1, but the new scenes that are here a pretty good. See a guy get backed over, and a guy killed with a battery charger. Good stuff!
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Summary: More of a black comedy than a sequel
Comment: Despite the title this seems like a black comedy because the morbid sense of humor and who the killer makes jokes and kills people.The movie is a flashback of part 1 and has Billy's brother Ricky telling a doctor why his brother killed for and then Ricky escapes from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.The murders are laughable(A man gets a umbrella through his stomach and a teen gets car jacks in his mouth and his eyeballs explode.The whole movie is weird and not for all tastes or not for the squeamish but this one is much better than part 3 and 4.The movie is 88 minutes with 40 minutes of flashbacks
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Summary: Not worth a pig's spit.
Comment: My, god, what is with these people? I am shocked and appalled that this film got so many good reviews. I counted almost half a dozen five star reviews on the first page alone, and it averages at around 3. What have you people been smoking, and why aren't you sharing it?
The acting in this thing is putrid, especially on the part of Eric Freeman, who plays the kid brother of Billy from the first film. His acting was so horrible I had to get up in the middle of the film and go into the bathroom to empty my bowels, because I had an attack of diarrhea. He doesn't look like he's acting at all, really. It looks more like he's trying to pass a gall stone. I'm an actor, myself. So, I think I have the right to say that I wouldn't spare this kid a drop of piss if he was on fire.
In this film we reunite with Ricky (Eric Freeman), Billy's little brother. He has apparently been incarcerated in a state mental hospital for killing a bunch of people. In the first scenes, and in a collection of tiresome flashbacks from the first film, Ricky reveals to a prison Psychiatrist why he did the things he did. He tells the story of his parents murder, and his older brother's subsequent nervous breakdown, as an adult. If you are already fed up with Ricky's whining, and long for the original film, don't you worry. They show clips from it for almost two thirds of this one. When finally we see what Ricky, himself, got into trouble for, we are treated to a number of lame scenes in which he runs amok with a pistol and kills several people in a quiet neighborhood. No axe for Ricky. Oh, no! That would be too sensational. No, just a good old .357 magnum. Not quite like Dirty Harry, but close enough.
As you may have guessed, Ricky eventually escapes from the mental hospital, and goes after Mother Superior from the first film. (I think it's a different actress, but I couldn't tell, her makeup was too thick.) You can probably predict what happens next, but I make it a rule not to blow the ending of any movie, even when the film deserves it. Suffice to say that Ricky dons his own Santa Claus outfit, the way his brother did in the first movie, when he takes care of business
So, there you have it. That's Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2. In my humble opinion they took a good idea and wasted it. It was overkill. I think it would have been way cooler if they had just had the original actor from the first film come back as a zombie Santa Claus to continue on his original path of destruction. That would have been much easier to take than this miserable product.
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