Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)

Directed by Lee Harry. Starring Eric Freeman, James L. Newman, Jean Miller, Elizabeth Kaitan, Ken Weichert, Nadya Wynd. [R]

Cheap, ridiculous continuation of the Christmas-themed slasher “classic” is completely worthless beyond the camp value of Eric Freeman’s rigid yet unhinged performance as the new lunatic on the block: original mass murderer Billy Chapman’s kid brother, Ricky. After spending almost half the movie recapping the first film through a series of flashbacks as told by a now-adult Ricky (despite not being there to witness most of the events), the sibling is shown going on a murder spree himself, muttering words like “naughty” and “punish” before offing some creep or random nobody. Only at the very end does the silent night turn deadly—the earlier new kills were always in broad daylight, sometimes on “garbage day”—as he finally dons a Santa suit and goes after the nasty Mother Superior who warped his and his big brother’s brains years earlier. Scattered bad laughs, even beyond the meme-tastic “quip” alluded to earlier, make it watchable cheese if you’re of that specific mindset, but good gravy, is this thing sleazy and stupid. Ricky would return for one more entry in the series, subtitled Better Watch Out!

17/100