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In order to revitalize this sick franchise, the film makers rip off "Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood"- as if that series was one to emulate.
Laura (Samantha Scully), a blind psychic girl, makes a connection with the comatose Ricky (Bill Moseley), who survived the second film. We begin to see more flashbacks from the FIRST film, where they decide it was Ricky, not Billy, who remembers the Santa Claus attack and the deaths of his parents. If I have to see Tara Buckman get her top ripped off and her throat slit one more time, I will deck the halls with the rest of this video series. The film makers have also changed the ending to the last film by having Ricky suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. This necessitates a bowl on his head in order to protect his exposed brain. Nothing scarier that a maniacal killer skulking around with what looks like a gelatin salad placed on the old cranium. Ricky wakes up, is still set off by the color red, and hunts down Laura. She is now at Psychic Granny's (Elizabeth Hoffman) house with her brother and his new girlfriend- who adds to the confusion by looking exactly like Laura. Detective Connely (Robert Culp, who should've investigated how his career came to this) and a scientist are hot on the trail of Ricky, who wanders around L.A. and surrounding areas with his salad bowl helmet on.
The next two sequels in this straight-to-video series have nothing to do with Billy and Ricky and their propensity for dressing like a beloved children's icon and hacking topless women to death. God bless us each and every one, except for "Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!". On a side note, if you get Culp's deja vu joke, then you are a better person than I. Followed by Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation.
Stats:
(1990) 90 min. (1/10)
-Directed by Monte Hellman
-Screenplay by Rex Weiner from a story by Rex Weiner & Monte Hellman and Arthur Gorson
-Cast: Samantha Scully, Bill Moseley, Robert Culp, Richard Beymer, Elizabeth Hoffman, Richard C. Adams, Eric DaRe, Leonard Mann, Laura Harring, Jim Ladd, Richard N. Gladstein, Monte Hellman, Thomas Herod Jr.
(R)
Media Viewed: VHS
