Silent Night, Deadly Night IV

             And if I die before I wake, thank you.

Kim is an aspiring journalist working for the LA 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 to ashes in an apparent case of spontaneous human combustion, Kim decides to pursue the story on her own without Eli's approval.

The initial part of her investigation takes her to a butchers, and then on to a second hand bookshop where she acquires a book on spontaneous combustion - although she is pressed by the shops owner Fima to take a second book and an invitation to a picnic. Whilst investigating the roof of the shop she comes into contact with Ricky - but runs of screaming when he shows her an insect larvae.

Back at her own place things start to get strange - there seem to be cockroaches everywhere and the book Fima encouraged her to take is resulting in some bizarre 'hallucinations.' Anyway she forgets about the weird events and goes to her blokes house form Christmas. Hank's father seems to want to argue...and claims that a woman's place is in the kitchen...to which Kim disagrees. On her return home more strange things with cockroaches and the book occur, and before we know it she passes out and is lying on the floor. The next day Kim decides not to go to work, and instead attends Fima's picnic....later to be picked up by Hank and taken to work. She is officially given the combustion story and ends up at Fima's apartment, hearing that she reminds Fima of her daughter....before passing out again.

She awakens surrounded by Jane, Fima, Katherine and Li. They strip her of her clothes and paint a dark line from her forehead to her chin and a spiral around her navel. Ricky brings in the same larva from the ventilation pipe. He places it on her stomach. As Katherine chants a spell and Ricky and Fima slice open a live rat over her, the larva crawls into Kim's body. Under her skin, the larva crawls up Kim's body. It emerges from her mouth as a full-grown, giant, multi-segmented roach. Kim vomits the creature out. Ricky slices the creature in half and drips its syrupy innards onto Kim's face.....

Kim wakes up later fully dressed, still in Fima's apartment. The four women encourage her to stay, but she escapes and runs home. There she finds Hank waiting for her. The stressed Kim starts a fight with him, but he calms her down. They begin to make love. While doing so, Ricky casually enters the apartment, sits on their bed and begins watching TV. When he flips to a channel showing a clip from SNDN 3, he laughs. The noise alerts Hank, who demands that Ricky leave. They scuffle and Hank is stabbed to death by Ricky. Kim manages to answer her ringing phone during the fight and screams for Janice to help her. Ricky captures Kim and binds her. Janice arrives, but doesn't help Kim. Instead, she admonishes Ricky for the mess and tells him to take Kim straight to Fima while she cleans up.

Kim is locked up and passes out a few more times - inbetween being subjected to barbaric behaviour from Ricky. When she awakes she escapes and goes to Fima's book shop, who explains that her experiences have freed her from men!! Kim believes she had been hallucinating - yet Fima insists that she must kill a man or she will be consumed by fire - just as her daughter was!!!

Kim brings a policeman, Detective Burt, to her apartment. There, everything is spotless and there's no trace of Hank's body. At her office's Christmas party, Eli claims that Hank is away on assignment. Janice there welcomes her to the family. Furious and confused, Kim storms out of the office and walks down the sidewalk. She notices Ricky following her and ducks into a motel room. Her feet begin to get painfully hot. She jumps into the shower, but they still burst into tiny flames. Ricky enters the room and, in pain, Kim agrees to kidnap Lonnie to complete the initiation. Kim lures Lonnie out of Hank's parent's house and into a waiting van. When Ann goes to investigate, Ricky tapes her mouth shut and strangles and electrocutes Gus with a string of Christmas lights. As the house begins to burn, Ricky jumps into the van and they drive back to Fima's rooftop.

Will Kim kill Lonnie or burst into flames....and what of Ricky???? Do we have some exciting twists in store????

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