Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! Movie Review
After being shot at the end of Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, Ricky lives, but is in a coma. 6 years later, doctors are experimenting with ESP, and a young, blind woman named Laura (Samantha Scully) makes a psychic connection with the killer. When Ricky inevitably awakens from his coma, he sets out to kill Laura, and everybody around her, including her brother, who looks like the keyboardist from Bon Jovi.
What a head of hair!
Yes, this movie is just about as bad as it sounds, but you haven't heard it all yet! Ricky is now played by Bill Moseley (House of 1,000 Corpses), who can make a character far more interesting just by making faces than Eric Freeman, the previous Ricky, can with actual dialogue...this is not theoretic either, as that's really all Moseley is allowed to do here. Ricky, who was shot in the chest at the end of the previous film, now has a dome on his head, his brain exposed, to protect an injury that is never explained or shown.
Dementor?
I think the most frustrating thing about this whole thing is that Moseley, the most talented actor in the film, is completely wasted here. I can only imagine how much better Part 2 would have been had Moseley starred as Ricky in that one as well. As for Better Watch Out, the movie just drags. We get some flashback stuff from the first two movies, but they don't take up nearly the time they did in the second film. You're not really given any reason to care about any of the characters in the movie, or even what is happening. The bloodshed is toned down from the second movie as well. This film just plods along, leading to an uninspired ending. If you're a Moseley fan, it may be worth checking out just to see him in this role, or if you are doing a marathon of the franchise, you'll have to watch it; otherwise, you can skip this one.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 4
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! Movie Trailer
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