Review of Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!

Alright so I'm now going for part three. This is when things begin to become a little more supernatural and different than the previous films. At least it does have a few surprising actors like Richard Beymer and Laura Harring! There is also the legendary horror actor Bill Moseley. I've never seen anything from Monte Hellman, but I have heard of at least one other film. It looks like both the writers have only done two films with Arthur Gorson being the only one who returns for part four. Anyways let's see how this fairs in the series. I hope it's at least better than the second one.

This movie is constantly pissing me off. They say Ricky had half his head shot off in the last film which didn't happen. They also make the flashbacks from the first movie seem like Ricky was Billy and an only child. They make comments as if Ricky was the killer since part one. With a body count that includes eight (not including archive footage and the scene from a movie on TV) most of the kills are off-screen. The ones we do see are pretty lame. The results of some of the kills are gruesome though. Also they clearly had no idea what they were doing as the Doctor apparently seemed to have no recollection of Laura telling him where she was going. Then randomly he does remember like what the hell? The writing here is just trash! Now instead of being naughty he just has to see red.

A lot of the acting is pretty bad even from fairly well known Laura Harring. The writing makes Richard Beymer seem slightly amateur as well. Bill Moseley does a great Frankenstein impression. I also admit his character design is pretty neat. At least they do a continuation of pretty corny lead actors. Although Samantha Scully is pretty awful she is nowhere near as bad as Eric Freeman.

It's barely better than the previous installment. It's a shame that most of the deaths are off-screen. Also the writing and directing was really off. It sometimes felt like they had forgotten what happened in previous scenes and even the previous movies. That or they just didn't care to make sense of it all. The acting is pretty bad and the characters are pretty boring. Maybe if it was it's own film it may have been kind of better. Otherwise it's a waste of time.