Silent Night, Deadly Night 2

Plot synopsis:
On Christmas Eve, Ricky Caldwell (Eric Freeman) is sitting in a interrogation room and smoking a cigarette when an orderly enters and places a tape recorder on a table. Dr. Henry Bloom (James L. Newman) enters, puts a reel of tape in the machine, sets up a microphone and tells the orderly to leave. The doctor introduces himself and tells Ricky that he is his court-appointed therapist and is Ricky's last chance. Ricky is very hostile and belligerent, but Henry tells him to sit down and tell him how he came to be here for his crimes. Henry begins by asking Ricky a series of questions beginning with who killed his parents. Ricky tells him that it was Santa Claus. Ricky then tells Henry the story about his parents murders. In a flashback to 1971 (from the first 'Silent Night, Deadly Night' movie), Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell along with their children, five-year-old Billy and one-year-old Ricky are driving along a snowy highway and stopped by a hitchhiker dressed as Santa whose car has broken down. The man in the Santa costume shoots the father and drags the mother from the car where he stabs her while Billy watches from a distance.Ricky then talks about his stay at the orphanage (another lengthy flashback to the first movie), where he and Bill where "taught" by the abusive and sadistic Mother Superior about naughtiness and punishment. Billy was afflicted with nightmares about his parents murder, but Mother Superior only abused him more, believing that because he witnessed evil, Billy would turn out evil.As Henry switches the tape for a new one, Ricky then starts talking about 18-year-old Billy's job at a toy store and all about how Billy snapped on Christmas Eve in 1984 and went on a killing spree, murdering four store employees, two teenagers, as well as one teenage bully sledding before killing a policeman and going to the orphanage where he tried to ax Mother Superior but was shot and killed the police before he could do so. The young Ricky witnesses the whole thing with the other orphans.Henry switches another tape again before Ricky then says that they closed down the orphanage afterwords, but that one of the more friendly nuns, Sister Mary, sent him to live with the Rosenburgs, a friendly Jewish couple that did not celebrate Christmas. While on the street with his foster mother shopping, young Ricky is frightened by two approaching nuns, which remind him of the abuse he and all of the other orphans suffered at the hands of Mother Superior and most of the other nuns. Ricky is also afraid of the color red, which reminds him of the Santa murders and of seeing his brother gunned down. Martha Rosenburg sees Ricky react to a car backfiring which reminds him of the gunshots that killed his brother and leads him away. Despite the incident, Sister Mary convinces Mr. and Mrs. Rosenburgs that they have to keep watching Ricky.Some years later, Ricky's foster father, Morty, dies. One summer day, 15-year-old Ricky (Darrel Guilbeau) is out for a walk along a rural road in a park. He sees a young couple, Eddie and Paula, lying in the grass on a blanket. Eddie is too forward with Paula and forces himself on her. While Eddie is attempting to rape Paula, he hits her. Ricky sees this and says "Naughty!" to himself. Paula stops Eddie from raping her by hitting him in his crouch. He gets up and goes to his Jeep which is the color red. Ricky gets in the vehicle first, starts it up with the keys still in the ignition and hits Eddie and roles over him back and forth. Paula witnesses the murder and actually thanks Ricky for killing her abusive boyfriend. Ricky walks away having secured his first kill. Dr. Henry Bloom writes down "red car" in his notes.Ricky then talks that when he graduated from high school three years later, he got a job as a dishwasher in a local restaurant. One evening, while taking out the trash, the grown-up Ricky witnessed a loan shark trying to collect from a deadbeat and beating the man in the alley behind the restaurant. The loan shark wipes the sweat from his forehead with a red handkerchief, and Ricky then attacked. The super-strong Ricky picked up the loan shark and shoved an umbrella through his stomach and opened it, leaving the dead thug behind as it started to rain.In the present, the increasingly worried Henry, wipes his face with his own handkerchief, but notices a red 'B' on it and puts it away before Ricky can see it. Henry realizes that Ricky has described two previous unsolved murders and finally figures out that the color red makes Ricky go violent. Henry suddenly angers Ricky when he asks him about a woman named Jennifer. Henry shows a photo of Jennifer, and Ricky calms down and says that Jennifer was the only person and thing he ever cared about.In another contemporary flashback, set a few years after the loan shark murder, Ricky first met Jennifer (Elizabeth Clayton) in a parking lot at a local grocery store when she accidentally bumps into his motorcycle with her car and knocked him over. She offered to pay for the damage and soon, it was love at first sight for both Ricky and Jennifer. They later ride on Ricky's motorcycle, and kiss and spend some personal time together. Ricky tells Henry that his intimate moments with Jennifer were the happiest times he had in his life.Later, Ricky and Jennifer go out to see a movie. Ricky is annoyed by an idiot seated several rows behind him making noise. As Ricky and Jennifer prepare to kiss, the idiot makes kissing sounds. Jennifer tells Ricky that the movie they are about see is about a guy who dresses up as Santa and kills people. Ricky, apparently inspired, stands and leaves. When Ricky is gone, another guy named Chip (Kenneth Bryan James) sits next to Jennifer and talks about their old relationship. She is mad because Chip cheated on her, but Chip mocks the muscular Ricky. In the back row, the idiot is still talking constantly, but finally shuts up when Ricky attacks and knocks him out. Chip tells Jennifer that he will be home all summer and to call him, but she refuses. Chip then goes back and sits down in his own seat with his latest girlfriend Roxanne. Ricky returns to Jennifer and she wants to leave, but he says that he is enjoying the film.A few days later, Ricky and Jennifer are walking down a sidewalk in a residential neighborhood, hand in hand, happy to be together. They pass Chip's house where Chip is working on his red car outside on the street. He approaches them and makes fun of both of them. He holds onto Jennifer until Ricky confronts him and orders Chip to leave him and Jennifer alone. Chip mentions having sex with Jennifer while they were together, and an enraged Ricky grabs him and shoves jumper cables into Chip's mouth and electrocutes him. Jennifer yells at Ricky that she hates him for killing her ex-boyfriend. But Ricky, jealous that Jennifer had sex with Chip before they did, rips off the car's antennae and chokes her to death. A local rent-a-cop arrives and points a gun at Ricky, but he turns the weapon on the rookie cop and shoots him. Ricky takes the gun and goes out on a shooting spree, killing a neighbor who comes outside asking about the gunshot. Having finally been driven to the point beyond insanity, Ricky then walks down the street and shoots and kills another neighbor who is taking out the trash. (Ricky yells "garbage day!" before shooting him.) A little girl riding a bicycle bumps into Ricky, and says "excuse me, mister!" in a polite tone. Ricky tells the little girl that it's okay and lets her ride off. He moves on down the street and shoots at a moving red car, which crashes and explodes. Another few minutes later, the police arrive and order him to put down his gun. With nowhere left to go, Ricky points the gun at his head, and gets a click. He is all out of bullets, thus allowing the police to arrest him.Ricky finishes his story to Henry and says that it was a shame that he was stopped before was finished, and says that he intends to continue his killing spree to end it where his older brother Billy failed. Ricky passes by the doctor, who is lying dead at his desk having been strangled with a reel of tape (apparently while Ricky was describing his murder of Jennifer). Ricky walks out of the room and attacks people outside.Sister Mary (Nadya Wynd) arrives at the hospital after Ricky's escape and tells a police lieutenant investigating Dr. Henry Bloom's murder that Ricky intends to kill Mother Superior. She explains that several years earlier, Mother Superior had a stroke and is retired having been confided to a wheelchair and having been suffering from cancer for the past year and also lives alone.On a street, Ricky kills a Salvation Army Santa and takes his uniform, as well as arms himself with a two-bladed ax, intent on killing Mother Superior for all the abuse and to finish what Billy was going to. Ricky then calls the wheelchair-bound Mother Superior from a pay phone and says "Santa's Back!"Mother Superior manages to call the police to come over to her house just as Ricky arrives. He axes his way through the front door and calls out for Mother Superior to get what is coming to her. She rolls her wheelchair into a room and slides a dresser in front of the door. As Ricky axes things around the house, she rolls out of the room and to the stairs where Ricky attacks her from behind and causes her to fall down the stairs. She gets to another wheelchair at the bottom and tells "Richard" to come out and face her. When Ricky finally shows himself, she says that she is no longer afraid and that Ricky is being naughty and needs to be punished. Ricky lifts the ax.The police and Sister Mary arrive at the house where they find Mother Superior sitting at a table. Her head falls off as Sister Mary touches her shoulder. Ricky appears with the ax in his hands and is about to strike Sister Mary but gets shot by several policemen and flies back out a glass back door. Sister Mary awakens from her faint where the police lieutenant tells her "it's over". She turns and sees Mother Superior's severed head lying next to her. Sister Mary screams. Outside on the back porch, the police surround Ricky who is probably dead. But in the final shot, Ricky weakly opens his eyes... still alive.

Tags: cruelty, murder, violence, revenge, entertaining, sadist

Review:
Half of the movie a recap of the original SNDN (I had never seen SNDN @ this time so it didn't bother me and still doesn't) The new footage is 100% camp gold.
Eric Freeman's eyebrows and nostrils chew up every frame they're in and his over the top delivery makes brilliant catch phrases out of something as simple as 'RED CAR' and 'GARABAGE DAY' (I still imitate him when putting out my trash.) W/ this one viewing this movie became a personal favourite and take it in just about every Xmas since (and occasionally throughout the year / I did originally see it in July).
This is why while the original Silent Night Deadly Night is a personal favorite of mine, this film is possibly one of the worst sequels of all time.Silent Night Deadly Night 2 focuses on Ricky, the younger brother of Billy who was the original "Santa Claus" killer from the original.
All you have to do is put on a red t-shirt and he will probably wet himself (although by the end he has inexplicably gotten over this fear and dons a Santa suit).In one mind-boggling sequence, Ricky takes his girlfriend to the movie theatre to watch the original Silent Night Deadly Night.
Eric Freeman's ridiculously over-the-top acting as Ricky, accompanied by eyebrows that seem to bounce around his face like they've been injected with acid, turn his "Garbage Day" rampage into a laugh riot as he blows up cars with his pistol and shoots at people taking out the trash.
By the end of the film the director seems to be trying to turn Ricky into some sort of classic horror movie villain, as he is practically unfazed as he is remedially shot in the chest.
However, over half of the running time consists of boring, recycled footage from the original Silent Night Deadly Night, which makes it not worth the time to get to the "good" stuff.
It told the story of a young man who snapped and went on a killing spree while wearing a santa costume.Part 2 tells the story of his brother who is basically doing the same thing but is a tad brighter.Sadly the first third of the film is heavily flashbacks so it feels like you're watching the first film all over again.
When the new material kicks in it's essentially more of the same.The original film despite it's fame remains to me as a distinctly average feature and this sequel is about on par.A couple of fairly original deaths, a competent lead playing the manic Ricky Caldwell and the usual tropes and cliches of the sub-genre.It's astounding that this managed 5 movies total, hopefully they haven't peaked already with this one as I'm part 3 bound shortly.The Good:Eric FreemanFollows on from the first film well enoughThe Bad:FAR too much footage from the first filmThings I Learnt From This Movie:A nun would have no problem moving into house no.666Nuns are trained in the art of wheelchair ninjutsuThe church provides a spare wheelchair in case of acts of god.
Little Ricky(Eric Freeman),the brother of our killer Billy from "Silent Night,Deadly Night",is grown up now and has inherited his brother's dislike for naughtiness.In the office of his 13th psychiatrist,he tells his family's background,including events following the first movie,where Ricky kills random people."Silent Night,Deadly Night Part 2" offers nothing new in comparison to the original.In fact the first 35 minutes or so are just flashbacks from the first film.The acting of Eric Freeman is incredibly lousy,however the killing spree in a yuppie neighborhood is slightly amusing to say the least."Silent Night,Deadly Night Part 2" is mildly entertaining in its intentional awfulness-that's why I'd give it 5 out of 10.Stick with the original..
Firstly, yeah half the movie is clips from the first one, but at the time Silent Night, Deadly Night 1 was pretty much banned, so the powers that be originally wanted the director to just re-cut part 1 and call it part 2.
There are great films, there are run-of-the-mill films, there are bad films and then there films just so unique that they have to be seen, this is one of those movies.The movie starts off with Ricky, the brother of the killer from the first film (who didn't actually witness most of the stuff in the movie) telling the story of the first movie to a psychologist in a mental institution through a series of flashbacks of footage from the first film.
This leads to plenty of killing, all gloriously over-acted especially when he gets into the suburbs.During this segment they even manage to cram more footage from the first movie in by having them go see the film at the cinema in a scene that is as funny as it is stupid.If you've recently seen the first film then the first half hour could be a bit of a bore but this is certainly one of those films that's so bad that it's really good fun.And when you find out that what they were originally asked to do was to just edit the first film differently and call it a sequel.
You get 35 minutes of flashbacks from the original movie in this one (including seemingly endless scenes of unnecessary dialogue), and to make it even more ridiculous they replaced two of the main characters (Mother Superior and Young Ricky), so that these parts, given the length of the flashbacks, are actually played by two different actors in the same movie!
In case of Young Ricky it may not seem that important, as he is only seen for a few minutes, but the Mother Superior is a leading role both in flashbacks and sequel, and even the inspired disfigured-face-make-up can't hide the fact that there is no resemblance whatsoever between Mother Superior #1 and #2.After you survived the flashbacks from the first movie you get another 30 minutes of new ones showing Ricky's childhood, his first love affair and also dozens of killings.
Needless to say, there is no suspense involved here.For the rather short showdown with Mother Superior #2, Ricky finally dresses up as Santa Claus, but without the beard, so even now it's not the real thing.This is definitely one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I still can't believe that it actually made it to the cinemas and video stores..
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT PART 2 would have been subtitled FLASHBACK because the first hour or so Ricky (Brother of Billy in the first film discusses his life) Past life that is!
There are bad movies, and then there's "Silent Night Deadly Night 2." Made up of nearly thirty minutes of footage from the original film, followed by one of the cheapest, least effective continuations imaginable, resulting in the worst slasher sequel of the 1980s.
Before Troll 2 and Tommy Wiseau's The Room, there was Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 featuring Eric Freeman as Ricky Caldwell with his epic eyebrows and his infamous 'Garbage Day' line.The first half of the movie is just cut scenes from the original with Ricky talking about it to Dr. Henry Bloom, the 13th Doctor to interview Ricky and try to diagnose him.
After escaping from the asylum and donning a Santa Claus suit (in the last 10 minutes of the movie) Ricky's final target is Mother Superior, the demented nun who traumatized and abused Billy in the original film.
If you love Christmas, garbage day, and awesomely cheesy bad horror flicks from the 80's, I highly recommend SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT PART 2!!!.
With the first film being nothing short of a masterpiece of slasher cinema, this film is a complete and utter disappointment.So much potential...wasted.The entire first half is a cheap rehashing of the first film...making the entire thing come off as a lazy cash grab (though I can't imagine word of mouth did it any good).What is most frustrating, is that they set themselves up so perfectly for a sequel at the end of the first film.
It's boring, drawn out, uninspired, poorly acted, and chock full of some of the most patently ridiculous kills you'll ever have the displeasure of watching.The whole story is retold here, from the perspective of Billy's (the antagonist from the first film) now institutionalized little brother- in flashbacks- despite the fact that he couldn't possibly have been privy to many details (as all parties involved would end up deceased).Far too much time is dedicated to the attempted development of our antagonists psychological character...and what follows simply doesn't make up for it.In the end, this film fails in every regard, where the original managed to succeed...and is simply a waste of time.2 out of 10..
Do yourself a favor and skip the first hour of the movie, it is a literal recap of the first movie, I don't mind it when movies decide to make a different pov of an interesting story but this is literally shot for shot footage of the original movie.I basically think the director wanted make a second film, but ran out of time and just put this sloppy mess together.Other than that the main characters overacting is worth to watch it a least once just for a laugh.
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.
Ricky (Eric Freeman), the brother of the killer in the first film, talks to a psychiatrist (James Newman) about how he became a brutal killer after his brother died, leading back to Mother Superior (Jean Miller).I can say with confidence that this movie ranks among the worst in the horror genre.
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) This must be the cheapest sequel ever, 75 % of the movie, was just flashback to the first movie, They even go to cinema to watch first movie, are you kidding me!Now Ricky the ones who's controls.
we all know why we are here ,the overacting of garbage day and Eric freeman are the only good things in the movie.To begin we have to sit threw 40 minutes of the first film which was actually watchable.But who wants to sit threw 40 minutes of the first movie.Watching 40 minutes is a really stupid way to pass time by.That only adds to this movies stupidness.
With worse acting than Troll 2, a plot so derivative that half its run time is footage from the original, a series of gratuitous rape scenes and buckets of bloodshed, this is precisely the kind of movie I'd have been looking for at 3AM on Cinemax during my adolescence.
The plot, and I use that term loosely, is about the little brother from the first movie (played by a distractingly horrible Eric Freeman) sitting in a room telling his life story through flashbacks.
Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 continues the story of Ricky, brother of killer in a Santa suit Billy from the first SNDN film.
Logic flies out of the door in this movie, with bullets flipping cars and Ricky escaping a hospital by merely walking out, so just sit back, relax and enjoy a campy late 80's semi-sequel to the controversial slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night.1½/5.
This one, with almost no budget, attempts to outdoor Boogeyman II with it's flashback footage to make up for the under-written story.The story is like this: it opens in a mental hospital for the criminally insane where we see a brooding, chain-smoking Ricky (Eric Freeman) the younger brother of the killer Billy (from the first SNDN movie) being interogated by a court psychiatrist, named Dr. Bloom, to determine if he's sane to stand trial for a series of murders Ricky commited.
The flashback footage, (the first SNDN film), has the infant Ricky and his five-year-old brother Billy witnessing their parents murder on Christmas Eve by a highwayman in a Santa Claus suit.
Billy is then shot by a detective before he can ax Mother Superior, who deserved it more than any of Billy's victms.Then there are the 'contemporary flashbacks' with young Ricky raised by his adoptive parents, and killing a total of eight people, (five in the last part with some far-fetched, but enjoyable shootings.) Ricky finally escapes and goes on another rampage dressed as Santa to finish what his brother Billy failed to do: kill Mother Superior.Despite the low-budget qualities, this picture moves right along and includes a quite entertaining performance by Eric Freeman who seems to be modeled after Jack Nicholson's character in The Shinning.
So much footage is shown from part one, that when the end credits are shown, they list the full cast and crew of this movie and part one also.In the second half, we get to see short vignettes, only of about 5 or 10 minutes each, involving the killer form the first movie's younger brother (mostly played by Eric Freeman, who is over acting so much it looks like his eyebrows are going to fly off of his face) relating to his shrink about growing up and killing several people along the way: running over one guy with a jeep, strangling an obnoxious prick in a movie theatre, strangling gorgeous 'Liz Kaitan/ Cayton with a car radio antennae, stealing a cop's gun and shooting people at random on the streets with it.
Without the flashbacks and slow end credits, this film would only run about 45 minutes long.Like the first one, this bizarre little pseudo comedy is kind of funny in a "so bad it's good" type of way..
If this is the case, then they failedthe film is just tedious garbage.The first half of the film rehashes footage from the so-so original, adding a terrible voice-over from the abysmal Eric Freeman, who plays Ricky, the equally demented brother of Billy, the Santa-suit wearing maniac from 'Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 1'.
The second half follows Ricky after he escapes from his loony-bin, and goes on a murderous rampage.The film seems to have quite a cult following from fans of bad movies, but I'm afraid I can't make that leapit just bored the hell out of me..
This much-maligned sequel to the 1984 cult horror film focuses on the original serial killer's younger brother who recounts his own version of events (from Part 1) to a psychiatrist before describing a recent killing spree.
The biggest drawback of the movie though is the over-reliance on archive footage with over 35 minutes (!) of the original film played out in flashback.
The first 40 minutes (almost half the movie) is just clips from part one, which makes this a terrible viewing if you try and watch the films back to back.
By throwing flashback after flashback of the first film within the first 45 minutes (were half-way there) and having Ricky, the brother of the original Santa killer provide the voice-over.
It was so cheesy, it didn't even look like a theater, the walls were all white and the lights were never turned off during the movie that was being showed (which was incidentally clips from the original "Silent Night, Deadly Night").
There are few killings in the film at all, which one would expect from an '80s slasher film, and when they do happen, the special effects are also laughable and very cheap.Overall, "Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2" is just one big cheap, badly acted, badly scripted, all around bad sequel to a decent horror movie.
This movie LITERALLY lifts 40 minutes of footage from the original "Silent Night, Deadly Night" and uses it to fill the whole first half!
Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987) 1/2 (out of 4) Ricky (Eric Freeman), the younger brother of the first film's killer, is now in a psycho ward where he tells a shrink (James Newman) why he turned into a killer.
So, the first forty-plus minutes of the movie are nothing but flashbacks from the original film but since Ricky never saw what happened how in the hell could he actually flashback to them?
This movie truly sucked.Half of the movie is footage from the first movie,and the acting stinks.This movie picks up where the first one left off,with Billy's young brother,Ricky(Eric Freeman) in a mental institution discussing his brother's death on a recording tape to a doctor.Silent Night,Deadly Night was a good movie,but they really ruined it with the sequel.Watching part 2 is just like watching part 1 again.Why did they waste money on this horrible movie?The movie has no plot,and it has no purpose of being made.One thing I hated is they replaced young Ricky with a different actor,why did'nt they use the same actor?Avoid seeing this movie if you have'nt seen it,don't let the cover fool you.Jacob Young.
This sequel uses a good 40+ minutes of flashbacks from that original film.
Grab a couple of friends, a few brews, and sit down for a good time.If you have seen the first movie watch a couple minutes of the beginning and then just go right ahead and skip the next 45 min or so because it is just footage from the previous film (except a couple parts where it cuts to Ricky being interviewed).Now, at this point you will be thinking this is just a waste of time and you'll want to shut it off....
Question for all you lovers of bad movies: Which film has a run-time filled with mostly flashbacks, a good amount of footage from its predecessor which features a killer Santa Claus, and has a famous scene involving garbage cans?
One really stupid thing in this is that prior to his rampage, Ricky and a girlfriend go to a movie, which just so happens to be about a killer Santa Claus and it's all footage from the beginning of the first film in 84.