I saw Ebert compare it vaguely to The Searchers 1956, both about a long lost man who goes on comes out the desert, embarks on a search for a missing loved one who's now in the hands of some bad men sexually expoliting her, at the end when he's reunited her with her loved ones he sets off on then knowing his job is done.
Thing that's surprised me while revisiting these old Siskel & Ebert shows is how moralistic Siskel, particularly, can be when it comes to slasher films. He loves the sexy stuff tho!
"I knew the name." But they didn't, neither of them. Talking Heads, not The Talking Heads. At least they liked it, though they admired David Byrne only. Talking Heads were an incredible =band=.
SN, DN is bad. Even if you only compare it at the level of other slashers. Some interesting kills and the cute actor that plays the deranged Santa 🎅 🔪 are the only redeeming qualities in the picture.
Perhaps at the time watching Chris Farley might have been too much for him. He was battling cancer and it probably affected hie whole movie going experiences then.
Stop Making Sense: 👍⭐⭐⭐⭐ - one of the best music films ever made Falling In Love: 👎⭐⭐1/2 - although the star rating is a marginal thumbs down Paris, Texas: 👍⭐⭐⭐⭐ Silent Night, Deadly Night: 👍⭐⭐⭐ - sure it wasn't a masterpiece, but it was an entertaining horror flick.
20:03 My absolute least favorite thing Gene Siskel did was call out the names of the filmmakers like this. Scolding the filmmakers like this, especially in examples like Friday the 13th where he encouraged harassment, is NOT the job of the film critic and not okay.
