(1991)
Director: Martin Kitrosser
Writers: Martin Kitrosser, Brian Yuzna
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5 begins with a young boy, Derek, witnessing the death of his father at the hands of a booby-trapped toy. Traumatized by the event, Derek remains mute for the next two weeks. His mother, worried about her son, takes Derek to a local toy store owned by kindly old man Joe Petto (Mickey Rooney) and his odd teenage son Pino. They are also being stalked by a strange man in a leather jacket named Noah as mysterious toy presents begin killing children around the neighborhood. This is where we'll start getting into spoiler territory because I can't really talk about this movie without talking about the ridiculous twist to it. So if you don't want to have the movie spoiled for you, go find it and come back when you're done watching it. Okay? Okay. So as it turns out, Noah is Derek's father who has been tracking down Mr. Petto involving a string of murders. It seems that Mr. Petto was so distraught by the death of his wife and son that he built a robot son, Pino. Unfortunately, Pino has become obsessed with Derek's mother and wants to kill Derek and become her son.
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5, much like part 4, has nothing to do with the rest of the series. Although it is connected to part 4 through cameos from Clint Howard, Neith Hunter, and Conan Yuzna's characters from that movie. At least SNDN 5 actually has more to do with Christmas than part 4, and it's delightfully strange. I actually enjoy part 5 a lot and when I normally watch the Silent Night, Deadly Night series, I usually skip over parts 3 & 4 and go straight to 5. You haven't truly experienced Christmas until you see Mickey Rooney remove his face and a genital-less robot boy dry-humping a woman while screaming "I love you, mommy!". Silent Night, Deadly Night gets 4 out of 6 beers.
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