Review #364: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)
Twelve More Slays of Christmas #6 - Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990) Watch it here on Tubi! At some point I feel like I need to sit down and have a good long think about "What is a sequel?" I already complained a few days ago about how Black Christmas (2019) is not actually a remake of Black Christmas, and in the same vein this movie really isn't a Silent Night, Deadly Night sequel. I know that there's already a tradition of various franchises having one entry that just randomly veers off in a new direction (Halloween 3: Season of the Witch being the common example) but this one needs to be right up there too. Unlike the previous entries in this series which are at least somewhat centered around one of two brothers that act out their trauma by murdering people around Christmas, Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation is a movie about Kim, an aspiring journalist who investigates a bizarre death (an apparent self-immolation regarded as a suicide) and end...