Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation
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| Directed by | Brian Yuzna |
| Produced by | Richard N. Gladstein |
| Screenplay by | Woody Keith |
| Story by | Brian Yuzna Arthur H. Gorson S.J. Smith |
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Clint Howard Neith Hunter Tommy Hinkley Reggie Bannister Allyce Beasley Maud Adams |
| Music by | Richard Band |
| Cinematography | Philip Holahan |
| Edited by | Peter Teschner |
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Silent Films
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| Distributed by | Live Video |
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86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation is a 1990 American horror film directed by Brian Yuzna and was written by Brian Yuzna, Woody Keith, and Arthur Gorson. The film stars Clint Howard, Neith Hunter, Tommy Hinkley, Reggie Banister, Allyce Beasley, and Maud Adams. The plot focuses on a Los Angeles newspaper reporter who, while investigating the unexplained death of a woman, becomes entangled with a group of witches who are preparing her for their ritual on Christmas Eve.
The film is the third sequel in the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise, but bears no resemblance to its predecessors, because it drops the "killer Santa" theme completely. It is followed by The Toy Maker (1991).
Kim Levitt is an aspiring journalist working for the L.A. Eye as a classified ads editor. Her boss, Eli, seems to give all of the men in her office the breaks, including her boyfriend Hank. When a woman is discovered dead on the sidewalk, half-burned into ashes in an apparent case of the spontaneous human combustion, Kim decides to pursue the story on her own without Eli's approval. While investigating, she crosses paths with Fima, a used bookstore proprietor whose shop is in the building the woman jumped from. As a gift, Fima offers Kim a book on feminism and the occult.
On Christmas Eve, Kim spends the evening with Hank's family, who recurrently make snide remarks about Kim being Jewish. Later at her apartment, Kim begins reading the book Fima gave to her, and finds a chapter on "The Fire of Lilith" depicting a woman engulfed in flames. The next day, Kim arrives at a picnic Fima invited her to, where she meets Katherine Harrison, a self-described old crone, and the young Jane Yanana. They tell her about Lilith, Adam's first wife and the "spirit of all that crawls."
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