“Better Watch Out!” is the title of the third installment of Silent Night Deadly Night. Even though it is a picture that takes a lot of creative leaps, it is still head and shoulders above the second installment of this film franchise.
Ricky Caldwell, aka “Killer Santa Claus,” has been in a coma for the past six years. Throughout this period, there has been no change in his health. A slightly unhinged doctor has been keeping him on life support while doing tests on extrasensory perception and other odd skills. Caldwell had only recently begun to emerge from his coma at this time. Ricky decides to follow Laura, the young blind clairvoyant who has captivated his attention. Laura’s precognitive powers have attracted Ricky’s interest. As we speak, Laura, her brother Chris, and Chris’s girlfriend Jerri are en route to their grandmother’s house for the Christmas Eve festivities. Laura and her grandma plan to attend the party. In his obsession to find Laura, Ricky leaves a bloody wake of murder victims. Ricky drags a bunch of corpses along with him as he goes for Laura, and he drops them along the way.
In the Silent Night Deadly Night 3, Samantha Scully plays the part of Laura, a blind woman with psychic and clairvoyant abilities who agrees to take part in Dr. Newbury’s (Richard Beymer) novel study on sleep. Newbury wants Laura to establish some kind of psychic link with Ricky Caldwell (Bill Moseley), who is now in a coma, so that he might learn what the devil is going on inside the mind of the comatose serial murderer Ricky Caldwell. This research is quite strange, and I can’t imagine how difficult it was for Laura to participate in it. The most horrifying of Laura’s sessions is shown right at the beginning of the movie. When Laura comes to, she explains to Newbury what happened during the time that she was mentally linked with him, and she tells him that she does not want to participate in the study any more. Laura is completely shaken up as a result of this. Even though Newbury recognizes that her psychic abilities are essential to his study of Ricky’s thoughts, he often refuses to comply with her request and instead tells her to wait a few days and think about it in the meanwhile. Laura is willing to give Newbury the benefit of the doubt for the time being and has stated that she will make a decision on the probe after the holidays. You see, Laura is spending the holidays with her grandmother in the middle of nowhere, and she would like not to worry about whatever is going on in Ricky Caldwell’s deranged brain while she is there.
During this period, Ricky is subjected to agony at the hands of a drunk worker at the hospital who dresses up as Santa Claus. In the end, Ricky approaches the other individual, and he ends up killing him. Newbury and Lieutenant Connely are going to follow in his bloody footsteps as soon as it is humanly possible for them to do so. He is going to start an investigation into another murder.
Even worse than the last installment in the series, “Silent Night, Deadly Night 3” is missing the “garbage day!” humorous comedy that was included in the previous film in the series. Even if it’s a bad movie, at least it’s one step closer to becoming a “real movie” than Part Two was. Even if it’s not a good movie. The clichéd remark “Is it live or is it Memorex?” yelled by the protagonist of the hair metal band makes us more enraged than it does amused. It would appear that the primary concern of the cigar-chewing investors who read the screenplay was the length of the screenplay, which was 80 pages long. This was the case since the screenplay was so lengthy. In any case, it makes no difference how much of a contribution it made to the story as a whole, whether it was a lot or a little.
This one really sucks, but if you have never seen Silent Night Deadly Night 3 then you can watch the movie for free on Tubi.
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