{"id":36740,"date":"2016-09-14T00:31:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T07:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=36740"},"modified":"2016-11-07T22:55:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T06:55:25","slug":"silent-deadly-night-2-harry-lee-1987-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=36740","title":{"rendered":"Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (Harry Lee, 1987): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Jian Gedrick<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/silent-night-deadly-night-2.6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36742 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/silent-night-deadly-night-2.6-208x325.jpg\" alt=\"silent-night-deadly-night-2-6\" width=\"208\" height=\"325\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;float: left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/silent-night-deadly-night-2.6-208x325.jpg 208w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/silent-night-deadly-night-2.6-768x1200.jpg 768w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/silent-night-deadly-night-2.6-656x1024.jpg 656w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/silent-night-deadly-night-2.6.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Garbage Day! This is where that infamous Internet meme emerged from, the travesty <em>Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2<\/em>. It\u2019s not worth the effort of explaining the plot as <em>Silent Night, Deadly Night 2<\/em> is so arbitrary, and junky, and undeserving of anybody\u2019s attention, those who had their time wasted by it do however deserve an explanation for its inception. Director Lee Harry claims the producers insisted on re-editing the first <em>Silent Night, Deadly Night<\/em> and try passing it off as a sequel, while he wanted to create an entirely new film but didn\u2019t have enough material. The result is this.<\/p>\n<p><em>Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2<\/em> should be considered a metonym for utter contempt towards film. This desultory followup to the awful killer Santa flick\u00a0has outright disdain for its creation and all those who watch it. It&#8217;s driven by an incomplete idea that evidently doesn&#8217;t pass for a plot following Ricky Caldwell (Eric Freeman), the younger brother of the psychotic murdering teen from the first movie, being interviewed by a psychiatrist in a mental hospital. From there\u00a0half the film, in one of the most pathetic efforts in film history, spends its time recapping the events from the first film using the exact same footage! Indeed several parts of the film are testimonies the filmmakers aren&#8217;t concerned about anything other than getting an adequate running time for an inadequate picture: unimportant scenes are dragged on for minutes, the entire cast from the original are included in the closing credits. There are even moments where <em>Silent Deadly Night Part 2<\/em>\u00a0defies its own storyline as the\u00a0scene where Ricky and his girlfriend Jennifer (Elizabeth Kaftan) are in\u00a0a movie theater watching the first <em>Silent<\/em> <em>Night, Deadly Night<\/em>\u00a0even though the movie has\u00a0shamelessly wasted its time demonstrating\u00a0all these events really DID\u00a0occur.\u00a0The portion of the film that isn\u2019t recycled footage of the first is amusing schlock with absurd effects, situations, dialogue, and performances (Eric Freeman&#8217;s egregious acting accompanied by his oddball mannerisms, smirks, and dancing eyebrows is flat out hilarious). <em>Silent Night, Deadly<\/em> <em>Night Part 2<\/em>&#8216;s careless assembly amounts to it being an inexcusable, sloppy mess with not enough original footage to suffice as a sequel or a laughably bad film. It\u2019s anti-horror, anti-sequel, anti-movie. The celluloid might as well have been used for toilet paper, it is a total dump on cinema.<\/p>\n<p>0\/4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Jian Gedrick Garbage Day! This is where that infamous Internet meme emerged from, the travesty Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2. It\u2019s not worth the effort of explaining the plot as Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 is so arbitrary, and junky, and undeserving of anybody\u2019s attention, those who had their time wasted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}