Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 Review
Directed by Lee Harry
Written by a lot of silly people
“Naughty this!”
It’s that time of year again. No, not the time of year to buy gifts. No, not the time of year to sit around a warmly lit room with your family, exchanging fond remarks and a love of the season, fuck that. It’s the time of year for violence! And cheap shitty violence at that. That’s right, it’s that time of year to watch and review another Silent Night, Deadly Night movie. We’re only onto the second movie of the series, which is probably the most popular of the series because of that really wacky one-liner “Garbage Day”. So here I am, subjecting myself to another helping of cheap trash and asking myself a very stupid question: “Is Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 good?” Let’s talk about that.
This time round, Billy’s brother Ricky is the red clad killer, except he’s not because he doesn’t put on the suit and take revenge until the very end of the movie. In fact, the entire first half of this movie is a recap. Ricky walks around the room and talks us through the entire first movie in great detail, showing us parts that have no importance and through parts he shouldn’t know about. Deadly Night Part 2 is only an hour and a half long and it spends the first half going over the first movie, which I already fucking watched and a really don’t fancy seeing again. It then spends most of the second half flashing back to other random and stupid events in Ricky’s life, all of which were awful. The main killing spree scene doesn’t even see a madman running around in a Santa suit on Xmas Eve, slaying naughty people. It actually sees a slightly delirious man, walking around a nice neighborhood in a posh blue sweater shooting people, delivering the worst lines in horror movie history and weirdly laughing to himself. So, that’s the kind of movie this is. Honestly, the lines are horrendous and Eric Freeman’s delivery only makes them worse. I mean, you should listen to the way he just shouts “WHAYT” in the theater, it’s amazing. Go in about 2 minutes into the video below to hear it, but honestly, just watch the whole scene. It might be the worst thing ever filmed.
There’s only really two big characters, Ricky and the doctor. The doctor is played by James Newman and is totally fine, not much to say on the matter. BUT RICKY, we can talk about Ricky. He’s so comically and desperately overplayed that it’s unbelievable. What was he thinking! It’s the only slightly entertaining thing about this movie, except for that one time he kills a guy with an umbrella…for some reason. Everything that leaves Ricky’s mouth is gold, because it never makes sense. He just blurts out bollocks, all the time. Was the entire script improvised? It feels like it.
Sadly, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 has no impact. It’s a comically presented waste of time and I hesitate to even call it bad-good. The stupid or “Entertaining” stuff isn’t enjoyable enough to make this movie watchable, it’s honestly tragic. These kinds of movies are normally saved by unrealistic practical effects and a weird charm, here there is no charm and only the odd splatter of blood, so nothing to satisfy gore hounds. There’s campy moments and preposterous moments but they are just not enough to salvage any goodness from this schlock
And the soundtrack, my God the soundtrack! The entire movie is fitted with this repetitive plinky plonky, almost Christmassy, but not quite Christmassy tune. I can’t imagine a scene without it, it’s burned into my memory like a tragic event. It’s so traumatizing that this movie might cause me to end up in Ricky’s situation, this soundtrack might drive me insane. Okay, it’s not that bad, but it’s damn annoying.
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 is un-charming, cringy and feels even cheaper then it’s $100,000 budget. Half of the movie is recycled footage and the other half is dreadfully boring, resulting in a massive waste of time. The weirdly eccentric performance from Eric Freeman delivering stupid lines isn’t enough to save this rubbish and it’s no wonder this movies legacy is Ricky shouting “Garbage Day” at a random citizen. It’s rating is only what it is because of the umbrella kill, which isn’t even that good, it was just nice to see something.
Rating: * ½
Better Than > Finders Keepers Worse than > Silent Night, Deadly Night (Which is pretty naff too)
Main Pros
Umbrella kill, bro
Ridiculous Dialog/Overacting
The anticipation of waiting for the next awful line
Main Cons
Heavily recycled
Uninteresting
Comically acted
Ridiculous dialog also?
Repetitive soundtrack
Barely actually any Christmas slaying
Remember kids, every day is garbage day when you watch this trash. I’m dreading next year, when I watch Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!
