After their brother dies, Angelica and James come to town to visit his grave. James brings a present because he missed the funeral. Does he normally give gifts when someone dies?
The siblings stay at a bed and breakfast where Angelica asks if the owners have a VCR. Her brother left his last words on a VHS tape and she’s convinced they need to watch it while in town. It turns out to be a vague message about something wrong in town, Mom lied to us, and follow the bread crumbs. For his last words, he sure was unspecific about the message he wanted to impart.
Angelica and James start looking into their brothers death, but there are secrets in town that no one wants exposed. The owners of the B&B tell them about the legend of Black Peter, who turns out to be real.
This is a sequel to 1972’s Silent Night Bloody Night, and if you haven’t seen it, don’t worry because there’s 20-30 minutes of it included. I didn’t realize the footage was from a different movie. So when I saw actor Patrick O’Neal at first I thought he was aging marvelously and then I got completely confused when I remembered he died in the 1990s.
The movie has effects like lines and dust to try to make it look like old film. But they didn’t adjust the color so it still looks modern. I was excited to see Jennifer Runyon as one of the B&B owners. She always used to play sweet characters and I liked seeing her again.
There is some questionable acting in this, especially from James. He has a French accent, which is explained by saying he’d spent time in Canada. But Angelica doesn’t have an accent so that actually makes it more confusing. Also the last scene before the credits has acting right out of a high school play.
Dialogue stating the obvious:
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| Parking where there doesn’t seem to be a space |
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| The odd framing in the grave visiting scene |
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| Not only is it obviously an effect rather than carved, but the letter angle is for the left side of the stone |
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| Angelica seems to like to park in random places |
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| Nothing awkward about sitting with the B&B owners |
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| The curious case of Max leaving his last words on VHS |
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| Why is what appears to be a hard plastic bow on her glasses? |
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| Patrick O’Neal is in this film? But he died in 1994. |
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