| “ | Garbage day! | ” |
— Ricky Caldwell | ||
Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 is the sequel to the 1984 film and the second installment in the film series.
Synopsis[]
On Christmas Eve, Ricky Caldwell is sitting in a interrogation room and smoking a cigarette when an orderly enters and places a tape recorder on a table. Dr. Henry Bloom enters, puts a reel of tape in the machine, sets up a microphone and tells the orderly to leave. Dr. Bloom introduces himself and tells Ricky that he is his court-appointed therapist and is his last chance. He is very hostile and belligerent, but Dr. Bloom tells him to sit down and asks him how he came to be here for his crimes. Dr. Bloom begins by asking Ricky a series of questions beginning with who killed his parents. He tells him that it was Santa Claus. He then tells hi. the story about his parents' murders. In a flashback to 1971, Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell along with their children, five-year-old Billy and one-year-old Ricky, are driving along a snowy highway and stopped by a hitchhiker dressed as Santa whose car has broken down. The Santa shoots the father and drags Mrs. Caldwell from the car where he stabs her while Billy watches from a distance.
Ricky then talks about his stay at the orphanage, where he and Billy were "taught" by the abusive and sadistic Mother Superior about naughtiness and punishment. Billy was afflicted with nightmares about his parents' murders, but Mother Superior only abused him more, believing that because he witnessed evil, he would turn out evil.
As Dr. Bloom switches the tape for a new one, Ricky then starts talking about 18-year-old Billy's job at a toy store and all about how he snapped on Christmas Eve 1984 and went on a killing spree, murdering four store employees, two teenagers, as well as one teenage bully sledding before killing a policeman and going to the orphanage where he tried to kill Mother Superior but was shot and killed by the police before he could do so. Ricky witnessed the whole thing with the other orphans.
Dr. Bloom switches another tape again before Ricky then says that they closed down the orphanage afterwords, but that one of the more friendly nuns, Sister Mary, sent him to live with the Rosenburgs, a friendly Jewish couple that did not celebrate Christmas. While on the street with Mrs. Rosenburg shopping, he is frightened by two approaching nuns, which remind him of the abuse he and all of the other orphans suffered at the hands of Mother Superior and most of the other nuns. He is also afraid of the color red, which reminds him of the Santa murders and of seeing Billy gunned down. Mrs. Rosenburg sees him react to a car backfiring which reminds him of the gunshots that killed Billy and leads him away. Despite the incident, Sister Mary convinces Mr. and Mrs. Rosenburg that they have to keep watching him.
Some years later, Ricky's foster father, Mr. Rosenburg, dies. One summer day, 15-year-old Ricky is out for a walk along a rural road in a park. He sees a young couple, Eddie and Paula, lying in the grass on a blanket. Eddie is too forward with Paula and forces himself on her. While he is attempting to rape her, he hits her. Ricky sees this and says "Naughty!" to himself. Paula stops Eddie from raping her by hitting him in his crouch. He gets up and goes to his Jeep which is red. Ricky gets in it first, starts it up as the keys were still in the ignition, hits Eddie, and rolls over him back and forth. Paula witnesses the murder and actually thanks Ricky for it. He walks away having secured his first kill. Dr. Bloom writes down "red car" in his notes.
Ricky then talks that when he graduated from high school three years later, he got a job as a dishwasher in a local restaurant. One evening, while taking out the trash, he witnessed a loan shark trying to collect from a deadbeat and beating him in the alley behind the restaurant. He wipes the sweat from his forehead with a red handkerchief, and Ricky then attacks. He picks him up, shoves an umbrella through his stomach, and opens it, leaving his body behind as it starts to rain.
In the present, the increasingly worried Dr. Bloom wipes his face with his own handkerchief, but he notices a red "B" on it and puts it away before Ricky can see it. He realizes that Ricky has described two previous unsolved murders and finally figures out that the color red makes him go violent. He suddenly angers him when he asks him about a woman named Jennifer. He shows a photo of her, and Ricky calms down and says that she was the only person and thing he ever cared about.
In another contemporary flashback, set a few years after the loan shark murder, Ricky first met Jennifer in a parking lot at a local grocery store when she accidentally bumps into his motorcycle with her car and knocked him over. She offered to pay for the damage and soon, it was love at first sight for them. They later ride on his motorcycle, kiss, and spend some personal time together. He tells Dr. Bloom that his intimate moments with her were the happiest times he had in his life.
Later, Ricky and Jennifer go out to see a movie. He is annoyed by an idiot seated several rows behind him making noise. As he and Jennifer prepare to kiss, the idiot makes kissing sounds. Jennifer tells Ricky that the movie they are about see is about a guy who dresses up as Santa and kills people. He, apparently inspired, stands up and leaves. When he is gone, a guy named Chip sits next to Jennifer and talks about their old relationship. She is mad because he cheated on her, but he mocks Ricky. In the back row, the idiot is still talking constantly, but he finally shuts up when Ricky attacks and knocks him out. Chip tells Jennifer that he will be home all summer and to call him, but she refuses. Chip then goes back and sits down in his own seat with his latest girlfriend, Roxanne. Ricky returns to Jennifer, and she wants to leave, but he says that he is enjoying the movie.
A few days later, Ricky and Jennifer are walking down a sidewalk in a residential neighborhood, hand in hand, happy to be together. They pass Chip's house where he is working on his red car outside on the street. He approaches and makes fun of them. He holds onto Jennifer until Ricky confronts and orders him to leave them alone. He mentions having sex with Jennifer while they were together, and an enraged Ricky grabs him, shoves jumper cables into his mouth, and electrocutes him. Jennifer yells at him that she hates him for killing Chip. But he, jealous that she had sex with Chip before they did, rips off the car's antennae and chokes her to death. A local rent-a-cop arrives and points a gun at him, but he turns it on the cop and shoots him. He takes it and goes out on a shooting spree, killing a neighbor who comes outside asking about the gunshot. Having finally been driven to the point beyond insanity, he then walks down the street and kills another neighbor who is taking out the trash. A little girl riding a bicycle bumps into him and says, "Excuse me, mister!" in a polite tone. He tells her that it's okay and lets her ride off. He moves on down the street and shoots at a moving red car, which crashes and explodes. Another few minutes later, the police arrive and order him to put the gun down. With nowhere left to go, he points it at his head, and gets a click. He is all out of bullets, thus allowing the police to arrest him.
Ricky finishes his story to Dr. Bloom and says that it was a shame that he was stopped before was finished and says that he intends to continue his killing spree to end it where Billy failed. Ricky passes by Dr. Bloom, who is lying dead at his desk having been strangled with a reel of tape (apparently while Ricky was describing his murder of Jennifer). He walks out of the room and attacks people outside.
Sister Mary arrives at the hospital after Ricky's escape and tells a police lieutenant investigating Dr. Bloom's murder that he intends to kill Mother Superior. She explains that several years earlier, Mother Superior had a stroke and is retired having been confided to a wheelchair and having been suffering from cancer for the past year and also lives alone.
On a street, Ricky kills a Salvation Army Santa and takes his uniform, as well as arms himself with a two-bladed axe, intent on killing Mother Superior for all the abuse and to finish what Billy was going to. He then calls her from a pay phone and says, "Santa's back!"
Mother Superior manages to call the police to come over to her house just as Ricky arrives. He axes his way through the front door and calls out for her to get what is coming to her. She rolls her wheelchair into a room and slides a dresser in front of the door. As Ricky axes things around the house, she rolls out of the room and to the stairs where he attacks her from behind and causes her to fall down the stairs. She gets to another wheelchair at the bottom and tells him to come out and face her. When he finally shows himself, she says that she is no longer afraid and that he is being naughty and needs to be punished. He lifts the axe.
The police and Sister Mary arrive at the house where they find Mother Superior sitting at a table. Her head falls off as Sister Mary touches her shoulder. Ricky appears with the axe in his hands and is about to strike Sister Mary but gets shot by several policemen and flies back out a glass back door. Sister Mary awakens from her faint where the police lieutenant tells her, "It's over". She turns and sees Mother Superior's severed head lying next to her. She screams. Outside on the back porch, the police surround Ricky who is probably dead. But in the final shot, he weakly opens his eyes...still alive.
Cast[]
| Actor/Actress | Character(s) |
|---|---|
| Eric Freeman | Ricky Caldwell (adult) |
| Darrel Guilbeau | Ricky (age 15) |
| Brian Henley | Ricky {age 10) |
| James L. Newman | Dr. Henry Bloom |
| Elizabeth Cayton | Jennifer |
| Jean Miller | Mother Superior |
| Corrine Gelfan | Mrs. Rosenberg |
| Michael Combatti | Mr. Rosenberg |
| Kenneth Brian James | Chip |
| Ron Moriarty | Detective |
| Frank Novak | Loan Shark |
| Randy Baughman | Eddie |
| Joanne White | Paula |
| Lenny Rose | Loser |
| Nadya Wynd | Sister Mary |
| Kenneth McCabe | Rent-A-Cop |
| J. Aubrey Island | Orderly |
| Randy Post | Loudmouth in Theater |
| Kent Koppase Michael Marloe |
Cops |
| Larry Kelman | Cop Paramedic |
| Stephanie Babbit | Little Girl on Bicycle |
| Traci Odom Jennie Webb |
Nuns on Street |
| Janice Carlberg Jher Turner |
Teen lovers in orphanage |
| Jill K. Allen | Mrs. Rosenberg's Friend |
| Delia Lombardo | Roxanne |
| Stephen L. Parks | Photographer |
| O.J. Ackson | Officer Jackson |
| Fred Griggs Sally Bedding Spud Plugman Richard Levine Dianne C. Weed Amy Hamovitz Lee Harry (uncredited) |
Moviegoers |
| John Fitzgibbons Scottie Simpfender Erin Darini Lara Davini Brian Davini |
Kids at play |
| Erika Lundquist | Saleslady |
| Harvey Genkins (body) Joesph Earle (voice [uncredited]) |
Salvation Santa |
| Samurai Retz | |
| Archive footage | |
| Alex Buxton | Ricky (age 14) |
| Max Broadhead | Ricky (age 4) |
| Melissa Best | Ricky (infant) |
| Lilyan Chauvin | Mother Superior |
| Gilmer McCormick | Sister Margaret |
| Toni Nero | Pamela |
| Robert Brian Wilson | Billy (age 18) |
| Britt Leach | Mr. Simms |
| Nancy Borgenicht | Mrs. Randall |
| H.E.D. Redford | Capt. Richards |
| Linnea Quigley | Denise |
| Randy Stumpf | Andy |
| Tara Buckman | Mother |
| Geoff Hansen | Father |
| Charles Dierkop | Killer Santa |
| A. Madeline Smith | Sister Ellen |
| Max Robinson | Officer Barnes |
| Vinc Massa John Alvarez |
Young Boys Sledding |
| John Bishop Richard Terry |
Older Boys Sledding |
| Richard Clark | Officer Miller |
| Tip Boxell | Officer Murphy |
| Donald L. Shanks | Santa at Window |
| Angela Montoya | Little Girl on Santa's lap |
| Molly Cameron | Little Girl's Mother |
| Jayne Luke Joan Forster Betsy Nagel |
Other Mothers |
| Spencer Ashby | Santa at Orphanage |
| Spencer Alston Kristi Ballard Jacob Peterson Jonathan Wilde |
Children at Orphanage |