Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!


Silent Night, Deadly Night III Better Watch Out is a 1989 slasher film directed by Monte Hellman. A directtovideo release, the film is the second sequel to the 1984 film Silent Night, Deadly Night and centers around the Christmasobsessed killer Ricky Caldwell awakening from a coma and stalking a blind teenager with psychic powers, while she travels to her grandmothers house for the Christmas holiday with her brother and his girlfriend. The film was the last to follow the storyline set by the previous two films, the next two sequels being standalone entries.

Picked up from a session with her psychiatrist, Laura is introduced by her brother to his new girlfriend, a flight attendant named Jerri who Laura takes a dislike to. As the trio head off to Grannys they fail to notice Ricky who can hear Laura thanks to the mental link formed between them following them. Acquiring a truck and some fuel after murdering a motorist and a gas station attendant, Ricky makes it to Grannys first believing Ricky is simply an unfortunate handicapped vagrant Granny tries befriending him, but is killed when Ricky is provoked at the sight of a Christmas gift she offers him. At the hospital the two staff members butchered by Ricky are found by Lieutenant Connely and Newbury who begin trying to track Ricky down, realizing he is drawn towards Laura while looking through the after surveillance camera footage shows him uttering out her name.Reaching Grannys house, Laura feels something is wrong, though her suspicions are ignored by Chris, who believes Granny may have simply gone off for a walk. When Granny fails to show up and the car is found fully sabotaged, the group become very worried, with Chris and Jerri who end up deciding to go out and look for Granny. Since while being left alone, Laura senses Ricky staring at her through the window and screams, bringing Chris and Jerri back to the house. After discovering the phone is dead and her picture is missing, Laura realizes it must be Ricky who is after her moments before Ricky punches through the door and begins throttling Jerri, who is saved when Chris stabs Ricky in the arm. Elsewhere when Connely leaves the car to urinate, Newbury drives off, intending to try to reason with anything to do with this disastrous moment or trap Ricky, not wanting his experiment to go to waste by having Connely kill Ricky. ........

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