This horror sequel, also known as SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT PART 4, is another lame affair. It's completely unspectacular. I mean, I watched it only a couple of hours ago and I can hardly remember what happened even now.The plot is confusing, deliberately so, and never seems to go anywhere. When the woman is in the ritual, absolutely nothing makes sense, and the momentum is completely lost. Parts of the film are ripped from ROSEMARY'S BABY, but to compare the two would be an outrage. BUGS is also extremely low budget, almost on a par with a home movie, which detracts from the appeal a lot. The acting is uniformly bad and unremarkable, with only the reliable Clint Howard on hand playing a repulsive geek who sticks in the mind. Apart from him, the others are dreadful with the female lead just stripping off instead of acting. Maud Adams turns up but it's been a long time since her James Bond heyday. Nowadays she's just an embarrassing old woman.Which leaves me to conclude that, as is sadly the case with a lot of modern horror films, the special effects are the only worthwhile things. There are some memorably slimy and gruesome bugs on view, with cockroaches of all sizes to give one the creeps, as well as horrible slimy maggots and slimy gunk everywhere. In fact, it's quite sickening, thanks to the reliable Screaming Mad George. As well as these horrors, there's the highlight of a burning corpse scene. There is also one of the most brutal murders ever put on film, where a helpless victim is beaten, broken and repeatedly stabbed in the chest without even being able to defend himself. It's horrible.I can only be glad that Brian Yuzna has rid himself of this trash and is now making enjoyable films again, like TICKS, THE DENTIST, and PROGENY. Let's just forget these little mishaps and concentrate on the present, not on the past. This film is ten years old already anyway.

A female reporter (Neith Hunter) is investigating the bizarre suicide of a woman in flames who jumped off a building. Kim gets heavily mixed up in a satanic cult that wants to make her a sacrifice for the holidays. Why were four STV sequels necessary? The first one was a very entertaining slasher movie that had major balls. The sequels are about as a bad as a blind date. Brian Yuzna is responsible for one of my favorite horror movies! He made the wonderful Society, but this was just trash. Society was a disturbing film, this was just stupid. I was actually looking somewhat forward to this because of Yuzna's name! I should have known better. It's like they told Yuzna "Do your thing and make things as weirdly as possible, who cares" I kept asking myself what the point was. It doesn't have much to do with the first three. I also had trouble ignoring some things. Why did Kim keeping going around them? I get that a cult can overpower you, but I would have avoided them as much as possible. It's also really boring! It can throw in all the weirdness that it wants, but it can't hide the boredom. The best thing about this movie is the gore. There is an abundance of it! We get bug guts squeezed all over someone's face (And she enjoys it!) women cough up huge insects, ankle biting, and more! This one is pretty nasty. The acting is alright. Neith Hunter is off and on as the lead. She isn't very likable and I wasn't into her plight at all. Clint Howard is a revered horror actor, but I couldn't stand him in this movie. He annoyed the crap out of me with his antics! Maud Adams is all class and gives a great performance! Too bad it wasn't another movie. Horror favorite Reggie Banister shows up as well. The only thing I liked about this movie other than Maud Adams was the ode to City of The Dead with Christopher Lee (1959) In some ways, this movie is like that. Only nowhere near as good. Check out Society and leave this one alone! I'm a die-hard horror fan and I can honestly say it isn't worth it. There is no Killer Santa! 3/10

None of the Silent Night: Deadly Night films will ever win an Academy Award, but at least you don't feel cheated out of a couple of hours of your life watching them. This one is absolutely awful!!! It shouldn't even be allowed to carry the Silent Night/Deadly Night title.It has nothing at all to do with the Christmas killer theme of the others & is sorely lacking any interesting storyline here. Nothing but a bunch of has been or never were actors from the 70's and wannabe actors from the 90's in this one. The script is awful, the acting's even worse & the special effects are lame & rely on slimy reptiles & cockroaches in the sink to get bang for the buck.If you get a chance try & book some time watching paint dry instead of watching this garbage.

"Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 4: Intiation" is one strange movie. In fact, I don't think I've seen anything quite like it before. And I've seen a lot of films. It is about a Los Angeles journalist who is investigating a woman's death around Christmastime. The woman spontaneously combusted and leaped from the top of a building downtown. While asking the owner of a bookstore (Maude Adams) within the building about the strange death, she is lead into a sacrificial cult of modern day witches that plan on using her for one of their sacrificial ceremonies on Christmas Eve.Take elements from "Rosemary's Baby" and throw in some nasty monster creatures and feminist witches in a Christmas setting, and you've got this movie. I swear, this movie is one of the weirdest movies I think I've seen. There are a lot of strange bugs and creatures throughout the film that are really disgusting. Bizarre events and sequences take place throughout the movie. This film has pretty decent acting, Maude Adams is the best of the cast as the head of the cult, and the special effects are pretty cheap but sufficient. Since it's Los Angeles and there's no snow, the Christmastime mood isn't really set here, but the film didn't really have anything to do the Christmas anyway. And the sequence where Ricky attacks Kim and her boyfriend in the apartment was pretty well-done. This is the only "Silent Night, Deadly Night" film that I've seen so far, but still I'd probably only recommend this to hardcore fans of the "Silent Night, Deadly Night" series, and from what I know this sequel is unrelated to the other films. It's entertaining and has some good moments, but it's a little far out there. I liked it though, oddly enough. 6/10.