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With: Clint Howard, Neith Hunter, Tommy Hinkley, Reggie Bannister, Allyce Beasley, Maud Adams, Hugh Fink, Richard N. Gladstein, Glen Chin, Jeanne Bates, Laurel Lockhart, Ben Slack, Conan Yuzna, Marjean Holden, Ilsa Setzoil, David Wells
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Written by: Zeph E. Daniel, based on a story by S.J. Smith, Arthur H. Gorson, Brian Yuzna
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Directed by: Brian Yuzna
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MPAA Rating: R
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Running Time: 87
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Date: 12/24/2025
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Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)
Street Meat
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Dropping the "killer Santa Claus" idea, this entry focuses on a cute reporter, Kim Levitt (Neith Hunter), who is constantly passed over for stories by the men in her office. She decides to cover a story — a mysterious death, seemingly by spontaneous combustion — on her own. She meets a mysterious bookstore owner (former Bond girl Maud Adams), who gives her a book on the occult. Everything leads up to a sinister ritual on Christmas Eve. While not exactly a masterpiece, this is a surprisingly progressive and passively entertaining movie, directed by cult favorite Brian Yuzna (Society, Bride of Re-Animator). The one and only Clint Howard plays a weird homeless man who, in the first scene, picks up a hamburger off the street, and exclaims "No f---ing cheese!"
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