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Director:
Lee Harry
Writers:
Michael Hickey (characters) and
Paul Caimi (characters) ...
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Release Date:
10 April 1987 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Horror more
Tagline:
GARBAGE DAY!!! more
Plot:
Ricky, the brother of the killer in the first film, talks to a psychitrist about how he became a brutal killer after his brother died, leading back to Mother Superior. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Eric Freeman ... Richard 'Ricky' Caldwell
James Newman ... Dr. Henry Bloom (as James L. Newman)
Elizabeth Kaitan ... Jennifer Statson (as Elizabeth Cayton)
Jean Miller ... Mother Superior
Darrel Guilbeau ... Ricky at 15
Brian Michael Henley ... Ricky at 10
Corrine Gelfan ... Mrs. Rosenberg
Michael Combatti ... Mr. Rosenberg
Kenneth Brian James ... Chip
Ron Moriarty ... Detective

Frank Novak ... Loan Shark

Randall Boffman ... Eddie (as Randy Baughman)
Joanne White ... Paula
Lenny Rose ... Loser
Nadya Wynd ... Sister Mary
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Additional Details

Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-18 | Netherlands:16 | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Australia:R | UK:(Banned) | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Pasadena, California, USA

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
According to James Newman and Lee Harry, the choice of who to play Ricky Caldwell came down to Eric Freeman and another actor. The other actor has more experience and was a better actor overall, but they liked Eric's looks better so they chose him for the role. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When Ricky electrocutes Chip, his hand is still clenching Chip's throat. Since he has no insulated gloves on, he should've been fried as well. more
Quotes:
Ricky Caldwell: You tend to get paranoid when everyone around you gets dead. more
Movie Connections:
References King Kong (1933) more

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Awful, 3 February 2009
Author: Michael_Elliott from Louisville, KY

Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987)

1/2 (out of 4)

Ricky (Eric Freeman), the younger brother of the first film's killer, is now in a psycho ward where he tells a shrink (James Newman) why he turned into a killer. This here is one of the most disappointing sequels ever made because as a kid I rented this expecting a sequel but that's certainly not what we got. Well, not really. The original film was so controversial that it was pulled from theaters so the producer's figured out they might as well re-edit it and throw it back out years later. They hired new filmmakers who in return shot forty-minutes worth of new footage and then edited parts of the original in with them. So, the first forty-plus minutes of the movie are nothing but flashbacks from the original film but since Ricky never saw what happened how in the hell could he actually flashback to them? Trying to put logic to this film would be crazy and in the end this is just a horrible movie. The new scenes are all poorly directed, the dialogue is awful and the performance by Freeman is just downright horrid. The only thing that saves this from a BOMB rating are many unintentional laughs scattered throughout all the movie's badness. This includes the performance by Freeman, which is just so incredibly bad that you can't help but think he's just spoofing the film. His acting with his eyebrows are priceless as are his line deliveries like "Garbage Day!". I've read some people say that this film worked because you get all the death scenes from the original film but that's not true. The original movie was released into theaters unrated but this one here went in front of the MPAA because the producer's wanted a R-rating, which the film got. They got the R-rating because they cut out all the gore from the original film clips and the new footage doesn't feature anything too graphic. I'm a fan of the original film because there's just nothing like it out there among the slashers but this one here is just plain awful from start to finish.

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