Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! ★★★☆☆

It takes eight minutes until we see a flashback to the first film.

A lot of this film is quite bad. Almost any time Robert Culp is on screen it feels like it’s spinning its wheels and filling time; Ricky (incredible headgear aside) is a shadow of his eyebrow-wiggling, garbage day-declaring self; a third thing to round out this list but I’ve already forgotten most of the side characters.

But I find a lot of the scenes with Laura strangely compelling. Maybe I am just distracted by her looking a bit like Jennifer Connelly while being the best-dressed blind woman in the world but I really like this abrasive, assertive blind girl pensively making her way through an awful horror sequel.