Line #24 Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightIIIBetterWatchOut


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4	->''When your nightmare ends, the real terror begins!''
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6	''Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!'' is a 1989 SlasherMovie.
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8	Ricky (Creator/BillMoseley) awakens from a coma due to forming a mental link with a blind [[PsychicPowers psychic]] girl. Ricky (who has a snazzy clear dome replacing the top of his head, [[BodyHorror exposing his brain and its fluids]]) becomes obsessed with the girl and stalks her as she heads to her grandmother's house for [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday the holidays]], killing everyone in his way. On Ricky's trail [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} are his slightly mad doctor and a high ranking law enforcement official]].
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10	!!This film has examples of:
11	* AllJustADream: The film seems rather fond of this trope, giving us three dream sequences in the first 15 minutes alone.
12	* BadSanta: Laura encounters one during the opening dream sequence.
13	* BarrierBustingBlow: Ricky punching through a door to grab Jerri.
14	* BerserkButton: The color red sets off Ricky's murderous urges.
15	* BigNo: The hospital Santa's last words when Ricky closes on him.
16	* BlindSeer: Laura.
17	* BloodlessCarnage: The film borders on this; most of the deaths occur offscreen, with only the aftermath being shown. The deaths that are directly shown are fairly tame, with at least one using what is obviously ketchup squirted directly from a bottle as “blood”.
18	* BodyHorror: Due to damage to his head, Ricky has a transparent dome which exposes his brain and its fluids in place of a skullcap.
19	* CreatorCameo: Director Monte Hellman plays the poor fool that wakes up Ricky and gets killed for his trouble.
20	* DullSurprise:
21	** Samantha Scully ([[Series/TheXFiles not that one]]). Granted, she's playing a character who's blind, but still...
22	** There's a scene where Ricky punches through a door to attack Jerri. As his girlfriend is being throttled, Chris says "Holy shit!" in a really, really subdued manner.
23	* FinalGirl: Laura Anderson. Something of a subversion, though; she's seen drinking alcohol and is shown to have quite a bitchy personality, either of which is usually a death sentence in a slasher film.
24	* GoryDiscretionShot: The hospital receptionist getting knifed.
25	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Ricky getting a broken stick driven through his body at the end of the film.
26	* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Early on, there's a sequence where Laura spends the better part of ''three minutes'' sitting around in the hospital waiting room, doing absolutely nothing. [[spoiler:When she gets up, though, she finds out that the receptionist has been hacked to death by Ricky]].
27	* MarketBasedTitle: The film became ''Blind Terror'' for its international release.
28	* MenacingStroll: Ricky is unable to go faster than a basic walk.
29	* OffWithHisHead: Ricky decapitates Craig, and puts his head on his desk.
30	* ThePublicDomainChannel: And all that it shows is Creator/RogerCorman's ''Film/TheTerror''.
31	* PsychicLink: One develops between Laura and Ricky when she unknowingly reaches him in his comatose state.
32	* PsychicPowers: Laura has telepathy, a skill that she shares with her granny.
33	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Ricky's brain dome. Nobody comments on it.

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