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A female reporter investigates the death of a woman who, on fire, leapt off of a building to her death. Her investigation leads her to discover the existence of a strange cult dedicated Egyptan god Isis--and the cult wants her as its new queen.
Leave your thoughts about Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4.
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonThe atmosphere is so pervasively "low budget L.A." that it never ceases to feel like the exact thing it is, a chintzy DTV movie. |
| User ReviewChristopher SIf Clint Howard wasn't in this movie, I'd give it zero stars. |
| User ReviewMatthew MThis movie was so gross definitely a step up from the other films in term of budget. Clint Howard plays Ricky which I believe is a nod to the first three but that and a clip from the 3rd one is the only mentions well beside it being christmas. Maud Adams plays the villian and is pretty weird with a lot of ideas towards being a lesbian. This is definitely one of the weirdest and grossest films ive seen because I hate bugs. Especially slimy slugs that go into people. Overall if you want to creep someone show them this movie lol. Random thing I noticed was a picture in Kim's room of a famous one that I saw in class just a couple weeks earlier ( women with eye drops on her face). |
| User ReviewPrivate UThe only reason this film is great is becuase of Clint Howard. His part in the film is perfect. |
| User ReviewEnnis Brokeback LKim can't seem to get a leg up unless it's with her co-worker boyfriend Hank. She's an aspiring journalist for the L.A. Eye and has been stuck churning out classified ads. She wants something different, something she can report on. So one day while rolling around with Hank, she notices on the television of a woman who died of spontaneous human combustion. She sees a story in this, but her boss Eli doesn't want her to report on it. She's a woman in a man's world and decides that the only way to get the story she wants is to do it herself. Look out Nancy Drew! Her investigation leads her to a book shop where the young woman who leapt to her fiery death had died. There she meets a woman named Fima and a homeless man named Ricky (not the Ricky from the other films, but a different one). Fima lets Kim borrow a book as an invitation to a picnic and Ricky introduces her to a larva inside a vent on the roof. Something starts to bug Kim in the form of roaches in her apartment. They begin to invade in every corner as if something is drawing them there. One particularly gross scene involves a giant roach scurrying around her apartment, making her sick in the process. Could it have something to do with the book she borrowed from Fima? The fire of Lillith becomes a topic of discussion at the picnic where Kim meets Fima and three other women. It's mentioned that Lillith was known as the serpent who tempted Eve and was the spirit of all that crawls (Roaches included). If you're unable to spot the sinister atmosphere in the first few seconds of the picnic than you're blind as a bat. From this point, it becomes obvious that something concerning Fima and the other two women are responsible for the death of that young woman. This film in the Silent Night Deadly Night franchise fails to include what made the original worth watching: a Killer Santa Clause. It's like making 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and not including Freddy Kruger. Instead, they go for something of a witches delight in the form a 'Rosemary's Baby' homage except it's about getting Kim to take the form of, well, Lillith. There are some really disgusting moments in this film that actually make it worth watching. If it wasn't part of the Silent Night series, it'd make a good stand alone occult film. |
| User ReviewTTT CTry to wrap your brain around this next entry in the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise: A young, sexy reporter (Neith Hunter), living in a superb age of male chauvinism and sexism, takes on the task of investigating a strange death involving a woman spontaneously combusting on a rooftop and falling off to her death. To make matters much, much stranger, she encounters an eerie group of women (led by Maud Adams) who may or may not be part of an evil sect looking to resurrect an Egyptian she-devil. Let's not forget their disgusting, little errand boy in the form of Clint Howard, whose very presence in this movie is deliciously comical, as are the array of Screaming Mad George special effects, which consist of some fairly disturbing bugs and body mutilation. The film was directed by the once great Brian Yuzna, who had a knack for directing some fun, gory, effects-filled horror movies between 1989 and 1998 before fleeing to Spain and making one god awful film after the next. Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation takes the franchise in a VERY different and disturbing path that definitely has Yuzna's touch to it. Be on the lookout for the great Reggie Bannister (Phantasm franchise) as Hunter's boss. The film was a fun watch for me, but its definitely an acquired taste for certain people, specifically Yuzna fans of gorehounds. While Hunter does have a small titillating love scene, she still manages to keep relatively covered up (sorry folks, you'll have to seek out some of her other nudity-filled films). Overall, though, not a bad early 90's vehicle. I think the better thing to have been done was to just give the film a different name (like it's Initiation subtitle) rather than lopping it in with a franchise and not linking it whatsoever save for it happening around Christmas and for part 3 to be playing on a random TV. Weird, but an interesting watch nonetheless. |
| User ReviewCole MBrian Yuzna úgy döntött Å' majd rendbe teszi a kisiklott karácsonyi horror sorozatot, elsÅ' là (C)pà (C)skà (C)nt mindjárt likvidálta is a szent à 1/4nnepet a törtà (C)netbÅ'l. Második là (C)pà (C)skà (C)nt semmisnek tekintette az eddig esemà (C)nyeket à (C)s belefogott egy teljesen új sztori a megÃrásába, mely a Silent Night, Deadly Night helyett sokkal inkább hasonlÃt az elsÅ' filmje, a Fà (C)lelmetes társasághoz (Society). Itt is egy titokzatos (feminista) szekta áll a háttà (C)rbe, akik erÅ's befolyást gyakorolnak fÅ'szereplÅ'nÅ'nkre à (C)s Kim csúnyán belekeveredik összeeskà 1/4và (C)sà 1/4kbe. Yuzna hű maradt önmagához à (C)s rengeteg ocsmány dologgal szÃnezi filmjà (C)t à (C)s viszonylag a feszà 1/4ltsà (C)get is tudja tartani â" persze a tÅ'le megszokott nem túl magas szinten. Nem egy kiemelkedÅ' darab, de Yuzna à (C)letművà (C)be jól passzol, amit ráadásul ezzel a filmmel teljesen và (C)gig is nà (C)ztem. |
| User ReviewThomas DThe end of Silent Night Deadly Night 3 left the story open to continue down the traditional festive slasher route. This movie completely ignores that, and throws in a shitload of witchcraft. Does it work? Actually... sort of. Neith Hunter has the leading role of Kim, a young woman who gets embroiled with a coven of witches. Things go pretty weird when she stars vomiting up insect larvae and her limbs start joining together. There's a pretty strong and interesting feminism angle at work too. And, er, it all happens at christmas. It's very unclear how this movie ties in to the previous three. One of the characters is named Ricky (the killer from the last two movies) but it's never stated if its actually the same character or not. Bizarre but surprisingly watchable. |
| User ReviewPaul GThe one movie that has nothing to do with a christmas killing theme in the series, except for the fact that this is taking place in December, it's never really mentioned. This is one weird movie, that I thought was really freaky. It could have been used for a different series though. It seemed to me that the people working on the Silent Night Deadly Night series became completely bored and did not know where else to take the story about the psycho killer Santa Clause, and took the movie in a completely different direction. Unfortunately, it was for the worse. |
| User ReviewVince FThe only decent sequel of the the entire SNDN franchise. I think why I love this so much is because Brian Yuzna directs with such a unique zaniness that the movie seems likable and delivers some horror goods. It has a rather unpredictable plot with so many weird aspects. Lesbian/Feminist undertones, cockroaches, weird bug rituals, spontaneous combustion, Clint Howard playing some weirdo, lot's of disgusting scenes, bug vomiting, breathing spaghetti,and props that looked like they were recylced from the cockroach scene in Nightmare on Elm Street 4. Screaming Mad George provides some messed up special effects that made me smirk and was in awe of some of the stuff, like the weird mermaid bug transformation bit? I also liked the main lead, Neith Hunter, who did things in here I haven't seen porn stars do. She was a trooper, and cute as a button. Bad hair cut though. Did anyone else find the scene where the witched crack open the massive grub worm and squeeze it's goo onto her face seem a little to close to her getting jizzed on at the end of a porn? She also gets the best line in the movie, "Oh yeah? Well fuck my atittude, fuck my job, AND FUCK YOU!". Great. A out there visual approach with a kooky, familiar score by Richard Band. Brian Yuzna is a awesome director.I love his stuff. The only oddity is that this is a sequel in a Christmas themed slasher series, but there's no slasher (a ambiguous character Ricky is around but not sure if he's the slasher from 2-3), and there's maybe two minutes of scenes dealing with Christmas. |