Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987)

[Brett H.]

On the seventh day of Christmas, Oh, the Horror! brings to thee: Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (http://www.oh-the-horror.com/page.php?id=446)! (Wes R.)

Always nice when your colleague gives you an anonymous shout-out in his review. The crazy thing is... he toned the situation down exponentially. Seriously.

[nottidelterrore]

A bad movie by all means but I enjoy the hell out of it. I don't recommend watching it right after the first SNDN. Gets kind of boring that way.

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[Brett H.]

I fucking hate this movie so much. I am tolerant to almost anything, but I can not stomach SNDN 2. I understand the appeal of garbage day, but that's the only thing I found funny. On this very rare occasion, I just felt embarrassed for everyone involved in the film. If I had to make a list of ten movies I can't stomach that I've seen, there'd only be three on it. Boggeyman II (80s), SNDN II and Bikini Party Massacre (which is epic compared to those).

[Grizzlyman]

I will second Boo's statement here! It is indeed, by far, one of the poorest horror film sequels that I have seen, although I did feel that the only actor in the film that seemed somewhat legitimate in terms of acting was James Newman as the psychologist. The rest of the actors, including Elizabeth Kaitan (of F13 Part 7) were all pretty bad.

[nottidelterrore]

I fucking hate this movie so much. I am tolerant to almost anything, but I can not stomach SNDN 2. I understand the appeal of garbage day, but that's the only thing I found funny. On this very rare occasion, I just felt embarrassed for everyone involved in the film. If I had to make a list of ten movies I can't stomach that I've seen, there'd only be three on it. Boggeyman II (80s), SNDN II and Bikini Party Massacre (which is epic compared to those).

U rnt aloud to dizliek SNDN2. d00d.

For some reason, your first sentence made me bust up laughing. I'm imagining you slamming your fist on your desk as you say it.

[Brett H.]

For some reason, your first sentence made me bust up laughing. I'm imagining you slamming your fist on your desk as you say it.

Kinda like my grandpa would do when he used to roll a one when playing marbles (accompanied always by saying, "a dirty fuckin' one!" in disgust). Sure, the game is really called "Aggravation", but we just called it Marbles. Or "Ag".

Either way, yeah I called the movie every name in the book for a good 10 minutes when Wes asked if I could review it to lighten the workload on him (he had to do a lot of reviews really fast due to the mail being so slow to Canada, thus preventing me from doing some things I had planned). I basically just swore while this poor son of a bitch listened trying to convince me how entertaining it'd be for me to curse for a review like I did to him. It's like... you know how Joel Siegel flipped out when watching Clerks II; no matter how unprofessional it is, every man has his breaking point. SNDN 2 is mine and I didn't want to look like a smarmy dick in the review, so I kept my mouth shut.

It wasn't pretty...

[WesReviews]

This one is pretty terrible. I don't mind opening montages with maybe 5-10 minutes of footage from a previous film, but that "opening montage" stretches a good 40 minutes. Then what do we get? More montages for the next 30 minutes...of stuff we've never even seen before (a lost sequel, perhaps?) Leaving the present day stuff only happening in the last 15 or so.

The Santa suit was severely missed. All this said, though...I'd MUCH rather sit though this again than part 3. Bill Moseley as a lumbering, stumbling Ricky with his protective brain casing complete with sloshing brain water is really NOT effective in the least. With a movie made up of all new footage, maybe I wish they'd added a few scenes from SNDN to pad out the running time of this one instead. hehe

[nottidelterrore]

I have to mention that Chip's death is one of the funniest things in the movie as well as the death of the loan shark henchman(I think that's what he is) with the umbrella being stabbed through him, opened, & results in it pouring down rain. Comedy gold!

[sCabbOy]

This movie is golden, IMO.

Not Troll 2 good, but damn close.

[nottidelterrore]

I noticed on Ebay & Amazon that the double feature DVD is still going for around $20+.

[Joshg]

Just watched this for the first time.

...Oh my! I would have trashed it, but whatever. It was funny, if not incredibly stupid.
Eric Freeman's expression during the umbrella kill is amazing.

"Thank you," says the woman. Like, omg!!!

At least Mother Superior died. Albeit, a different actor.

[nottidelterrore]

Watch Eric Freeman's eyebrows throughout the movie. They flail like madness, yo!

[WesReviews]

Well the only thing that keeps this one from being a "Trash It" is that I do think it's worth one viewing. In other words, rent it, watch it once, return it and never watch it again. The movies I put trash it on, under no circumstances, should someone venture to watch. This movie, for all its awfulness and cheese, is WAY more entertaining than stuff like Drive-In Massacre, Scream ('81), Criminally Insane 2, and Mardi Gras Massacre. Those four are all complete wastes of time, whereas SNDN2, under the right conditions, could be fun (yes, along the lines of Troll 2).