Silent Night, Deadly Night 2

Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987)

Runtime: 88 minutes

Directed by: Lee Harry

Starring: Eric Freeman, James Newman, Elizabeth Kaitan, Jean Miller, many people from the first movie, via the lengthy and copious flashbacks

From: Silent Night Releasing Corporation

I finally saw this infamous movie in full. It is famous for several different things... or rather, infamous. I explain all that below: 

A few times in my life I've seen the original Silent Night, Deadly Night. It's an interesting story and you actually feel bad for Bobby and his little brother Ricky; while it has its faults, I always thought it was entertaining. Before last night I hadn't seen any of the sequels. Sure, I knew that most of the first half of this is stock footage as a now-adult Ricky talks to a psychiatrist and the second half includes a scene simply known as GARBAGE DAY, where we see an overacting Ricky due a bunch of crazy things in the span of a few minutes as he walks around a suburban neighborhood. Now that I've finally seen it in full, the film is awful and yet it's about 5 stars in terms of sheer entertainment value.

As I already mentioned, the first half is Ricky talking to a psychiatrist-who turns out to be a real dick, to put it bluntly-and long clips from the first film are shown. After that, Ricky stops talking about his murderous brother Billy and chats about himself; he's also a murdering SOB and this is where things really ramp up. The stock footage is definitely better made than the new footage, which is comedy in of itself. Then there's how Ricky (Eric Freeman) constantly overacts; as others have noted, he loves to emote with his eyebrows. Among the hilarious bits:

* Ricky being adopted by a Jewish couple, so he doesn't have to worry about Christmas being celebrated. Really.
* Ricky's relationship with his new girlfriend.
* Ricky running over a Tecate-drinking man a few times due to that man being rather rape-y.
* A kill involving an umbrella
* The entire scene inside the movie theatre.
* The address of where Mother Superior currently lives. Not to mention, the goofy way they try to disguise that the actress playing her was different than in the original film.

It's amazingly bad. I wish that GARBAGE DAY was still in full on YouTube, as I first saw it a few years ago. While I do recommend renting the movie so you can witness the badness from beginning to end, it'd be nice for those who have never seen anything from this before to bask in the majesty of the scene and how surreal it really is... although there is a killcount video up on YouTube and it is amusing. From the jumper cable death to a Chevy Chevette blowing up after only a few gunshots (well, that may not be so hard to believe...), from Ricky constantly laughing at the mayhem he's causing to the cops here being as inept as in the first movie... in context or out of it, the scene is incredible.

This should be a bad movie cult classic, if it isn't already is. There's more insanity than just an unforgettable 5 or so minutes, trust me.