An overheating problem like that must be a blown head gasket. Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 picks up on Christmas Eve some years after the first one. Ricky Caldwell (Eric Freeman) is the 18 year old brother of the killer from the first film, now being held in a mental institution and awaiting trial for all the murders that he committed. Through flashbacks, we find out that Ricky and his brother have been traumatized by a man, dressed up as Santa, that kills their parents. After his brother's death, Ricky is adopted by a nice couple. Following his foster father's death, though, Ricky snaps and goes on killing spree, targeting those he deems to be "naughty". The lump of coal's overrated anyway. If you really wanna get all the kids out there to be good for goodness sake, threatening their lives should do the trick.
Despite the fact that this is the second film of the series and that the first film was well known for being highly controversial at the time of its release, I skipped the first film anyway. Seriously, is this the type of film where people go, "Dude, you really need to see the first one first; otherwise, it'll all just go right over your head."? Besides, the filmmakers were either lazy enough or kind enough to make 40 out of the 88 minutes that make up this film footage from the first one anyway. Now I could go on about the piss poor editing or the horrible, horrible, horrible writing (although I really do commend them for reminding me to take my trash bin to curb since tomorrow really is GARBAGE DAY!!!! for me). No, there really is only one and only one reason to watch this film: Eric Freeman's performance... his horrible, unintentionally hilarious performance. This man deserved an Oscar nomination for Best Actor back then 'cause I have to believe delivering a performance as shitty as he does here has gotta take an tremendous amount of skill. Then again, yeah, maybe he is just that bad. Either way, halfway through the film, I decided I was gonna focus on nothing else but Freeman's performance which is still just God awful bad even when he's not saying a single word. How the hell is that possible? His over the top facial expressions made me wonder if he had Tourette's or if he had a really bad itch on his nose, but was the kind of professional actor that no matter what stays in character, which means absolutely no itching. If you look at it that way, yes, he's definitely like Daniel Day-Lewis, although I've never heard Day-Lewis deliver lines like a stoned William Shatner. Overall, when it comes to the greatest slasher villains of all time, be it Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger or Michael Myers, none of them will ever hold a candle to Ricky - the blue sweater killer, donning a horrible Scott Baio doo while kicking ass and taking names against all those who are "naughty". Hey, the garbage disposal companies appreciate the plug. By the way, as for that car moment in the clip, I want MythBusters here now 'cause I'm calling bull shit.
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