starwarsalex1 I'm giving it a 1 - but let me be clear, I really enjoyed this film. For me a 1 is a badge of honor for this film. Like Troll 2, or The Room - this film is a lot of fun to watch with a group and while drinking. It's a real joy.

Eric Stevenson It's simply incredible at how stupid this movie is. Roughly a third of the entire film is noting but stock footage from the original. Yes, that's literally what the film is and it's only interrupted by an occasional voice over and a scene showing the present. We see all of the murders that the main character committed. This is the first slasher film I've ever seen where a guy uses an actual gun to commit crimes. It's pretty easy to say that the "Garbage Day!" scene is the goofiest and most over the top part. It is however, followed by a scene where he shoots a car which spins out of control and blows up.I had in fact heard of this movie before the actual meme became popular. I think most people probably did. Most of the film is the guy telling a psychiatrist about all the people he's killed. This guy was caught by police because he failed to kill himself. He then kills the therapist and goes on to kill the nun who was responsible for his upbringing. Wait, if he was going to kill her, why did he attempt suicide before? All throughout the film, this guy has this goofy expression on his face.I think we actually managed to track down the real life actor and had some interview with it. Needless to say, he wasn't in anything else, really. I'm glad to have seen one of the worst Christmas movies of all time. It was supposed to be about a serial killer dressed as Santa. He doesn't even dress up as Santa until the last 15 minutes of the movie! As an installment in the "Silent Night, Deadly Night" series, it fails to even be a faithful sequel. It's so unbelievably awful with how this film is. 1/2*

callanvass Billy is dead and gone, but his younger brother Ricky (Eric Freeman) is eerily following in his footsteps. As Billy tells his story, we see how Billy became slowly unhinged and very unstable, killing whoever steps in his path. He escapes from the mental hospital to not only avenge Billy's death, but get his hands on the pretentious Mother Superior that caused Billy's terrible descent into madness. I love bad movies. It isn't that hard for me to garner cheesy enjoyment from them if done right. This movie isn't enjoyably bad, it's just bad. This almost feels like a pseudo documentary at times. A large part of this movie is flashback footage from the first movie. I didn't really see how that was a necessity and it just ended up looking cheap and lazy, lacking its own identity. After 40 minutes of pointless flashback footage, we do get some original footage, but Ricky's story isn't all that engaging. The first movie was a good psychological story and a solid horror film that wasn't afraid to cross boundaries. They could have really done something special with Ricky's storyline. In lieu of making a memorable storyline, they decided to pi******#@s all over it. A lot of it is trivial scenes that involve Ricky's upbringing and the torment he's gone through. From the very first line that was uttered. "F off, Doc", I knew I was in trouble. There are so many scenes that are laughable that I don't know where to begin. How about the "It's garbage day" line from Eric Freeman. We also get a scene with Ricky and his girlfriend watching Silent Night, Deadly Night in a movie theater (!) that failed miserably by trying to be clever. The finale is admittedly hilarious, with Ricky goes on a shooting rampage, randomly shooting anything in sight, and a decent battle with Ricky and Mother Superior. Don't expect much gore, it's pretty dry. Aside from some gory clips from the first, highlights involve death by electrocution and an umbrella. The acting is embarrassing. Eric Freeman is not only an amateur, but thoroughly unlikable. Billy was a sympathetic figure that made you feel sorry for his plight. This clown is a vile human being that I had no sympathy for. His character casts aspersions on people for his problems and has a phony tough guy routine to boot. I could have easily done without the faux evil laughter as well. This movie is a piece of garbage that should have never been made. I've never seen the 3 STV sequels, but I'm not looking forward to them. The original is a good horror movie that is unfairly misjudged. This sequel is a piece of crap that is all over the place and has no idea what it wants to be. Save your time and see the original instead. 2.8/10

PeterMitchell-506-564364 This was a no need for a horror sequel. An unbelievable amount of screen time is wasted on flashback footage in the first one, that stands superior to this trash. We have a way over acted Freeman as Ricky, the younger surviving brother of the first after the other maniacal brother was shot down in front of his young eyes, in it's finale. In this one, of all the nerve to have a movie, where mass murderer brother Ricky is being interviewed by a psychiatrist, out to find his motivations, among long intermittent flashbacks. When Ricky cracks in front of girlfriend Cayton, killing an ex, then Cayton, while continuing his rampage, shooting down neighborhood folk, save for a little girl, it's just futile and this massacre doesn't make sense. The way in which he kills his victims, apart from the ones who are shot, are just pathetic. Remember, it's a horror. Horror films require knives, etc, not guns, which made that massacre, incredibly stupid and totally out of whack. Somehow this sequel got all it's s..t wrong. I do admit, Freeman is fun to watch. Not so is this film, some of it's stars, and I'm really talking minor roles, mostly, giving such hammy performances, they ought to be hammered. The actors in the first one were so much better (professional). This film really goes nowhere or explain Freeman's motivations, as he's too far gone to level with the doc, or he's just too much of a sickopath, which just devalues it more. One stupid horror, sequel.