Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989)

Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Dreadfully Boring

Did you people see the same film I saw?

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Right off the bat, it is evident that this film is meant to be the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise's version of The Exorcist II. Only, instead of tapping into a shaman from a bygone era, our blind, psychic protaganess is being used to tap into Ricky- the killer from SNDN 2; younger brother of the killer from the first film- whom is now comatose, with his brain exposed, but contained in a jar.It seems that Laura (our aforementioned protaganess) has unwittingly awakened Ricky, from his vegetative state, by probing into his mind with her psychic abilities. Now, he's out to hunt her down...and he will kill anyone and everyone who gets in his way.It's a pretty average film over all, but at least there's a decent story to it. Certainly better than the second one, but still nothing compared to the original.5 out of 10

Hoping to rest for the holidays, a blind psychic woman and her friends' trip to a family gathering is interrupted by the reanimated killer that was part of her experiments with and tries to stop him before he kills off her friends.This was a truly abysmal and near worthless slasher effort. About the only positive this one has is the finale stalking around the house, which is quite effective here at putting her in danger due to the use of her physical condition causing a lot of fumbling and stumbling around in the dark while trying to avoid the killer who's closing in, through several different floors of the house and down into the basement where the real stalking is used and the best bloodletting is all thrown together. By itself, it's a decent enough sequence but is just trapped all throughout here with the rest of the banal attributes that hold it down. Among the numerous flaws here, nothing is bigger than the utterly lame and unimposing killer, who looks so ridiculous with the coma-device still strapped to his head that he gets quite more laughs than scares by his appearance and really settles into this one quite weakly. It's hardly off to a good start when we find ourselves treating the killer as a joke, and the other flaws only enhance that since this one is just interminably boring and lifeless. There's hardly any action at all within this since the first half tends to run through her experiments at the hospital before finally just getting to the house at the forty-minute mark as the useless side-tangents of the killer's stops along the way and the detectives spouting pointless scientific jargon at each other make up the rest of the running time in the first half. This is naturally spurred on by the criminally-low body-count that never really gives this one a chance to let loose with the splatter that would've helped the running time along here and in the end there's just not enough action to really get this one going at all. The last flaw here is the overall cheap-ness of the film, both in regards to the locations and sets but also the overall quality of the rest of the special effects as the kills are all off-screen, the design is pretty bad and overall this one never really had a chance to do much good for itself.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity and Language.

I really liked the first movie it was a fun slasher movie, the second sequel as got to be one of the worst sequel ever made.Not as bad as SD 2 But it was not that far from it!The whole movie was very boring and dull, I could not care less about anyone in this movie, the plot was really rubbish as wellAll the kills scenes were off screen, we only see the aftermath of death scenes in the movie, what is point of that.The acting in this movie was even worse then SDND 2, Which is really shocking, I could believe how bad it was. The ending was just really really silly, still a tiny bit of improvement on number 2

Silent Night, Deadly Night III (1989) 1/2 (out of 4) When I put the DVD into my player and hit play I was thinking that I had never seen this thing but within minutes of the movie playing it dawned on me that I had watched this once when it first came out. As the film went along the awfulness that was in front of my eyes made me realize that my poor mind had simply tried to forget having ever seen this awful film. Ricky Caldwell (Bill Moseley), the killer Santa from the previous film, has been in a coma for six years when a nutty doctor decides to use a blind woman (Samantha Scully) to try and connect with him. She goes home for the holidays but sadly Ricky wakes up and goes on a killing spree while trying to find her. This series is without question one of the weirdest in horror history as the original film came to be one of the most controversial ever made. The second is considered by many to be one of the worst ever made but thankfully it's so incredibly stupid that you can't help but laugh and have fun with it. This third film comes from cult director Hellman who previously made films like THE SHOOTING, RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND and CHINA 9 LIBERTY 37. Some consider him a genius but I've always found his films to be rather slow, boring and incredibly overrated. It was shocking to read several sources that said the director felt this was his best work and if he really does think that then he must really have a low opinion of his other films. This slasher is just downright horrid on all levels. The screenplay is a joke. The acting embarrassing. The special effects rather silly. There's really not a single good thing to be found here and the only reason I don't give this a BOMB rating is because of some extremely stupid scenes that actually made me laugh. I'm really not sure what Hellman was thinking but apparently the original screenplay was something completely different but he changed things up and added all sorts of strangeness. Some of his new stuff includes the doctor and a cop (Robert Culp) driving around discussing various aspects of life. This stuff doesn't work for a couple reasons. One is that the dialogue is simply poorly written and boring. The dialogue is meant to be deep and make you think but the only thing you'll want to do is sleep. Another problem is that stuff like this really takes away from the "other" story trying to be told and that's the slasher stuff. All the actors pretty much sleep through their roles but I can't say I blame them too much. Even the usually reliable Culp doesn't seem a bit interested in anything going on. What's even stranger is that Hellman uses footage from the first film and none of this is really needed because the killer here wasn't the one witnessing much of the footage that is used here and meant to be his "dream" or vision. SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT III is bad on all levels and it's really a poor way to end the series. The next two installments were just cashing in on the popular title so why Hellman decided to go this route is anyone's guess but the final film is a complete disaster.