Worse than Part 2
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 is a terrible film. Bad writing, bad directing, bad acting... and yet it's so entertaining in a TROLL 2 sort of way. It's one of those "so bad it's good" movies. Eric Freeman's performance is simply hilarious and the garbage day scene is amazing.
I remember enjoying PART III as a kid when I rented it from the local video store, but re-watching it as an adult, it was just terrible! The story was interesting and very similar to THE CELL, but the film just had no energy. The characters and the chain of events were boring, the usually fun Bill Moseley has absolutely nothing to do here. The film could have been helped by some blood, I don't think slasher films need gore. The original HALLOWEEN and BLACK CHRISTMAS are among my favorites and have very little on-screen violence.
But if you don't have gore, you need tension, likable characters... and this film had none of that. Although this has more of it's own footage than PART 2, it's definitely the worse of the two. While PART 2 was so bad it was good, this one is so bad it's painful to sit through.
"Cinema is everything to me. I live and breathe films -- I even eat them!"
- Lucio Fulci