Stars: Bill Moseley, Richard Beymer, Samantha Scully, Richard C. Adams, Melissa Hellman, Isabel Cooley

Choice Moment:
* A mexican truck driver picks up the hitchhiker wearing a hospital gown who has his brain exposed - and tries to make small talk!!

Conclusions:
* Loneliness on the road should is not excuse for a lack of common sense.
* Blindness gives you a sixth sense.
* Brain damage can be cured by electricity and tupperware.

Review:
Maybe I ask too many questions. Maybe I point my questions in the wrong direction. Maybe I need a vacation.

In any case I just have to ask: If you could be psychically linked to another human being would you waste your time crawling inside the mind of a guy who committed axe murders in a Santa Claus suit? If you were a doctor who had discovered a way to revive the dead would you waste your time bringing life to that killer? If you were a director would you waste your good name on tiresome crap like Silent Night Deadly Night III? If you were a critic who had created a website to post movie reviews would you waste your time on said tiresome crap?

The answer from most people would "No, of course not, what kind of stupid question is that?"

Some did, and so we have "Silent Night Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out" the sequel no one asked for to the horror classic no one remembers. So what's the point? Don't ask me, I'm just the critic, I have seen this movie and so I except my part of the blame.

The movie is crap in a hatbox. It begins a few years after Part 2 with the information that Ricky, the Santa slasher from Part II is NOT dead but have been revived and now lies in a coma hooked to a machine that links him psychically to a blind girl. When he wakes up and breaks out of the hospital, he goes looking for her. The killer is played by a completely different actor (the casting changes but the acting remains at the level of rigor mortis). He does not put on a Santa suit this time but instead spends most of the movie is a hospital gown that actually closes in the back - I call that a giant leap from reality.

Want more leaps from reality? Well, Ricky spends the entire movie walking with a clear plastic bowl on his head, under which his pulsating brain is exposed. Plus he has a goofy half smile on his face. Further leaps of reality? How about the fact that despite the bowl and the hospital gown he starts hitchhiking - AND GETS A RIDE!!

Several extras get their day's pay by becoming fodder to Ricky because . . . I dunno, just cuz. Actually, they're time fillers because it sinks in early on the filmmakers have to fill 90 minutes of film when they only have 20 minutes of story.

I find it funny that the girl is suppose to be psychic but can't see that Ricky is stalking her. Nor can she see that he's right outside the door. Nor can she see the open door the another sequel. Nor can she see the light and go find a better movie.