Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation

Name: Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
Genre: Horror
Released: 1990-11-21
Duration: 1 h 27 min
Rating: 4.1
Cast: Clint Howard, Neith Hunter, Tommy Hinkley

Original title: Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4

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1h 27m

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4.1/10

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Maud Adams in Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)

Horror

A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony d... Read allA reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season.A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season.

IMDb RATING

4.1/10

2.5K

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Director
- Brian Yuzna
Writers
- Zeph E. Daniel(screenplay)
- Richard N. Gladstein(story)
- Arthur Gorson(story)
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Neith Hunter in Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)

Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)

Maud Adams and Neith Hunter in Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)

Glen Chin and Neith Hunter in Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)

Maud Adams, Marjean Holden, and Neith Hunter in Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)

Allyce Beasley in Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)

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Trivia
The basis of the film's script was originally meant for the third Silent Night, Deadly Night film, but ended up being used here after the makers of that film turned the original script down.

Goofs
The numbers on Lonnie's house are backwards, which normally would indicate flipped footage, but that's clearly not the case as it appears this way in multiple shots of the house. For whatever reason, the production crew put the numbers on the house backwards on purpose.

Quotes
Ricky: [picks up a hamburger from the street and opens it] Oww. No fucking cheese!

Alternate versions
The 1996 UK video version (titled "Bugs") was cut by 8 secs by the BBFC. A shot of a man hanging by his nipples was removed.

Connections
Featured in Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991)

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2/10

Thoroughly stupid

While not as bad as Part 2, this was still awful. It's mostly because of how utterly ridiculous it is. This movie features a woman on fire jumping off a building and another woman investigating her death. It turns out the woman was a member of a cult that worshipped giant larvae (!) and she failed to go through initiation. Now only does this movie have virtually nothing to do with the previous movies, but it has virtually nothing to do with Christmas at all! Couldn't these guys have at least kept that consistent? There's a few Christmas trees and presents here and there and a Christmas party, but that's it!

The woman is plagued by insects all around her house. I do know what that's like unfortunately. There are several giant insects that appear throughout the movie and it looks absolutely stupid. I think this woman is actually supposed to give birth to a giant bug at one point. This film is really disgusting and has nothing to do with anything. There's just so many random things going on it's hard to put any plot together. It looks like they just took random elements and objects and made a movie out of them. This is just pointless. *

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