Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) is just simply one of those movies that I'm freaking amazed it actually exists. Especially since the first movie in 1984 was pulled out of theaters due to all of the controversy surrounding it. Actually, I haven't even seen the first one because I heard half of this sequel consisted of footage from the first movie in the form of flashbacks. So I just went right into this sequel here.In this movie, Ricky (played by Eric Freeman) is talking to a psychiatrist after he went on a insane murdering spree. He first tells him all of the past events involving his older brother Billy (which I will repeat that it consists of footage from the first movie). By the way, I honestly had trouble stomaching the footage from the first movie because of how sadistic it is. And really, they probably should've cut at least some of that footage out, because parts of the footage involves scenes that Ricky was either too young to remember, or scenes he never even witnessed. What the fuck?
Later, the movie picks up a little when we get to see new footage involving Ricky's life as he grew older like his relationship, and how he became a killer, leading up to the point where he ended up getting caught. Some of the deaths were pretty funny (like this one time where Ricky impales a guy using an umbrella). Most of the acting just pretty much sucked ass but I did enjoy James Newman playing the psychiatrist.
Also Eric Freeman who plays Ricky, was just really damn funny with his over-the-top acting. He's pretty insane with his excessive use of moving his eyebrows when he speaks. In fact, Eric Freeman is what saved this movie from being a total drag for me. It almost helped made this movie so bad it's worth watching except I was still bored throughout a lot of this movie.
I give "Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2" (1987) directed by Lee Harry a 3
out of 10.
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