Review of Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 (1990) by Vince F — 15 Jun 2008

The only decent sequel of the the entire SNDN franchise. I think why I love this so much is because Brian Yuzna directs with such a unique zaniness that the movie seems likable and delivers some horror goods.

It has a rather unpredictable plot with so many weird aspects. Lesbian/Feminist undertones, cockroaches, weird bug rituals, spontaneous combustion, Clint Howard playing some weirdo, lot's of disgusting scenes, bug vomiting, breathing spaghetti,and props that looked like they were recylced from the cockroach scene in.

Nightmare on Elm Street 4.

Screaming Mad George provides some messed up special effects that made me smirk and was in awe of some of the stuff, like the weird mermaid bug transformation bit?

I also liked the main lead, Neith Hunter, who did things in here I haven't seen porn stars do. She was a trooper, and cute as a button. Bad hair cut though. Did anyone else find the scene where the witched crack open the massive grub worm and squeeze it's goo onto her face seem a little to close to her getting jizzed on at the end of a porn? She also gets the best line in the movie, "Oh yeah? Well fuck my atittude, fuck my job, AND FUCK YOU!". Great.

A out there visual approach with a kooky, familiar score by Richard Band. Brian Yuzna is a awesome director.I love his stuff.

The only oddity is that this is a sequel in a Christmas themed slasher series, but there's no slasher (a ambiguous character Ricky is around but not sure if he's the slasher from 2-3), and there's maybe two minutes of scenes dealing with Christmas.