Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) by Lee Harry

Director: Lee Harry

Year: 1987

Country: USA

Alternate Titles: N/A

Genre: Slasher

Plot:

After getting released from custody, the son of the Santa Killer from several years earlier recounts how he arrived in the sanitarium’s care with what happened to his brother and then himself leading to a prolonged escape to deal with the savage Mother Superior that originally harmed them.

Review:

This is one of the worst if not the very worst films in the entire genre. There’s nothing to enjoy here as it only manages to feature plenty of flaws. The structure of this one is one of the biggest drawbacks, going from a slew of useless flashbacks to the original with needless narration trying to tie everything together when it was already accomplished pretty well originally so it feels excessively pointless just to replay the same material for no extra benefit. It takes up nearly the first half of the film recapping events that the participant in question was either way too young to remember or not around to see how his brother’s rampage played out. The further flashbacks involving the life with the foster parents setting up the descent into psychosis that arrives when he’s a teen feature no shortage of the same material that served the original and just feels like retreading overly familiar ground once again.

The original material present, with the series of rampages here taking out those that he comes across whether it be the suburban neighborhood or the race to get back to the orphanage dealing with the sinister Mother superior that tormented both him and his brother, are just so weak and lame there’s very little to from them even with the high body count that includes just about everything from the original but in a censored version. Given that they’re almost exclusively done with a gun and then get handled with off-screen material and just look so weak with a crippling low-budget approach, it’s just plain intolerable to get through making for an immensely weak time.

Overview: 0.5/5

With no redeeming values and just a multitude of flaws, this one emerges as one of the most putrid and unwatchable features in the genre and really serves no real purpose at all. Only franchise or genre completists should give this a shot while most others are better off served watching something else than this one.