Eric Stevenson I saw this in Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide even though apparently this and all the other "Silent Night, Deadly Night" sequels were direct to video. How nice of Maltin to go through the rest of these awful movies! Anyway, this movie's terrible because it's entirely pointless and looks stupid. The previous movie ended with the villain Ricky being shot numerous times. This movie features him coming back to life because scientists have reconnected his brain together. Why? Why would you reconstruct a serial killer's brain? That is very dumb.Never once does he even dress up like Santa so this really has nothing to do with the other movies. There's one Santa that appears at the beginning who's killed. There's fairly little connection to Christmas at all. I would think that a movie literally titled "Better Watch Out!" would feature Santa. Instead, we get a pointless violent film with Ricky's brain being exposed making him look like the DC supervillain, Psimon. What ever happened to the original Santa who killed his parents? Was this film really necessary? Couldn't they have addressed that to give this movie a reason for existing? *1/2

mkay-549-110495 I doubt loads of people watched out for yet another santa sequel after Part 2, known as one of the worst slasher movies ever - not bad in a subgenre where there's tight competition. So why bother doing another unwanted entry in the Ricky story? Or bother watching it? Well, personally I thought that with Richard Beymer from Twin Peaks as a mad scientist and Bill Moseley (who's had sort of a comeback lately but was probably working for free food when this movie was made) as reanimated Ricky it could only be so bad. Well, right now it's almost Christmas, so can I be blamed for wishing for a cinematic miracle? Back to reality: Beymer doesn't do anything with his clichéd character, and Moseley tries to keep a straight face wearing that fun glass head top (supposed to keep his reconstructed brain from falling out!), just looking evil and hardly uttering a word. He's rather slow and fragile than dangerous-looking, yet the bad supporting cast (including Laura Herring in an undemanding 'girlfriend-for-the-breasts-shot" role) are in panic. The blind girl doesn't act as tough she's blind, but as though she's über-stoned. Her bad 80s-haircut victim of a brother behaves absurdly, not even caring when someone he's supposed to love gets killed. There's boring flashbacks galore (and that after SNDN2 was trashed for its use of flashbacks, though they don't take up half of the movie here) and the murders are mostly tame or off-screen; so this isn't even of interest to undemanding gorehounds. Silent Night Deadly Night 3 - better watch out and rent a better movie!

Scarecrow-88 Pretty blind Laura(Samantha Scully playing her cold and distant making it especially hard to sympathize with her plight) is psychically linked to comatose serial killer Ricky(Bill Moseley, completely devoid of emotion..pretty much a walking robot who seems to explode through doors without even cutting himself and takes very slow steps)thanks to the experiments of Dr. Newbury(Richard Beymer)who was able to reconstruct the man's brain placing a glass dome on his head(..this is to ensure that nothing touches the brain as it is exposed). These experiments is to generate thoughts and images from Ricky's fractured, emotionally damaged mind that might assist him in his goal to free guilty minds through "evil thought cleansing". But, the experiment goes awry when Laura's tapping into deep wounding past nightmares awakens Ricky who will pursue her, killing anyone who comes in his path. The color red(or anything representing the Santa Claus killer who took his parents' lives)triggers the kill mechanism in Ricky's demented mental framework. Laura is going to Granny's for the holidays with brother Chris(Eric DaRe)and his girlfriend Jerri(Laura Harring). Through their psychic link, Ricky can see where they are heading, somehow getting there before they can killing Granny. Without their knowledge of Ricky being at Granny's house, Laura will use uncomfortable feelings(she can sense something's wrong)to understand that something is not quite right..it only increases when Granny is nowhere to be found. Lt Connely(Robert Culp, a much welcome presence to the proceedings)will need the help of Dr. Newbury to find and stop Ricky before his rampage leaves a lot of dead bodies..and is Laura's only hope.Far-fetched premise and incredibly slow killer hinder the peculiar, weird atmosphere of the horror flick. Definitely unlike the previous two films, this is not the slightest bit gory. Blood splatter as violence to others occurs off-screen is about as gross as it gets. It also features a heroine with a potty-mouth and icy demeanor who you have a hard time rooting for. And, with such a robotic, monotonously slow psycho, it's mighty hard getting scares out of the hunting of victims. His amazing power is completely laughable as well..I mean he receives a shot-gun blast that forcefully throws him across the floor, yet he's able to get up and attack brother Chris who is quite bigger than Ricky.

HumanoidOfFlesh Dr.Newbury has saved the life of the hideously injured Ricky Caldwell.The doctor has encased his patient's explosive brain inside a Plexiglas cap,yet he has failed to revive him from his deep coma.In Newbury's attempt to reach the comatose victim's mind,he connects Ricky's brain waves to a gifted clairvoyant,Laura Anderson,who unexpectedly taps into the dark and twisted realm of his haunted dreams.Ghastly things begin to happen and detective Connoly(Robert Culp),must fight to stop the dangerous experiment."Silent Night,Deadly Night 3" is a mediocre horror film at its best.The pace is horrendously slow,the script is terrible and the acting is weak.Still there are some interesting camera angles and the film is suitably interesting.The next sequel was a completely unrelated gorefest from Brian Yuzna,whose unusual vision—often rejected by series fans—was at least a change of pace.6 out of 10.