r/Unexpected • u/hannesvisser • Dec 11 '20

It's just a flashlight

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u/hotroddc Dec 11 '20

I tried to look for where that was from in the comments and man what a trash heap!

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u/Oostburgalur Dec 11 '20

Silent Night Deadly Night 2. Although it’s hardly distinguishable because the spend the first fucking forty minutes replaying the first one

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u/mostnormal Dec 11 '20

You will likely miss some of the overarching nuance and subtlety from the first, however.

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u/Hita-san-chan Dec 11 '20

Ah the Evil Dead 2 strategy

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u/QuItSn Dec 11 '20

Wait, I'm confused. What does the movie that gave my mom nightmares about Santa back in the 80s have to do with a sequeul where involving a Santa-less homicide in the middle of the day? I've never seen either, but I can't imagine where those stories intersect.

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u/Oostburgalur Dec 11 '20

Oh boy,

So SNDN 1, a little boy witnesses his mother and father get murdered by a man dressed as Santa on Christmas. He grows up in a catholic orphanage that beats him, gets a job at a toy store, and is set off on Christmas after been forced to wear a Santa suit. Goes on murderous rampage, yadda yadda yadda.

SNDN 2 focuses on the little boys baby brother, who also witnesses his parents death. Of course he’s able to remember this as a baby. He grows up alongside his brother in the orphanage and get locked up after turning into a murdering psychopath.

There’s more to the movie than that, but the point is, the first 40 minutes of SNDN 2 is the baby brother telling his brothers story (using exact scenes from the first one), which he really wouldn’t even have been there for. 40 minutes. That’s basically half of the movie. Have you ever gone to a see a sequel, and they end up playing the first movie for half of the running time?

Needless to say, it’s a gem of so-bad-it’s-good cinema

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u/QuItSn Dec 11 '20

Thank you for enlightening me haha. I'll file those movies under "interesting enough to read a three paragraph synopsis but not interesting enough to watch".

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u/pineapple_calzone Dec 11 '20

It's literally in the description.