Director: Ryan Stacy
Horror
I write this without the benefit of having
watched the first one. The reason for this is that I want to treat this as an
individual movie rather than a sequel. This might also be the cause for why I
don’t totally get it. It seems to me that there’s way to much talk about stuff
I don’t really connect to the movies main plot. Correction: of course it’s
connected to the main plot, just not in a way that makes a lot on sense.
I can’t really say that it works as slasher. It’s
not suspenseful enough, it’s not bloody enough. As a thriller? Well, there’s
that thing about suspense again. A thriller more than anything revolves around
suspense. The actors are quite bad most of the time but the thing the flick
lack is suspense sounds and music. These things can do wondrous things with a
mediocre plot.
To be honest, I don’t get this plot. There’s
way to much talk about what happened before that’s unknown if you haven’t
watched the first movie. I will watch it later though and see if I can connect
the dots. The things I get are that some crazy killer from the past returns to
kill off a bunch of friends. I don’t know why, there isn’t much motivation to
anything in the movie. Why, why, why? That’s always the thing we should get to
know one way or another. Except if you’re David
Lynch, then you can get away with a totally confusing movie.
It’s hard to separate the acting from the direction.
Who’s really to blame? I can’t say for sure but there is at least one saving
grace – Christy Faulkner, who does
the part of this hot ginger head Amber. She’s by far the most skilled actor in
this production. That’s my opinion anyway! Many of the others, not all of them
of course, seem to be in the production just to add cleavage values! That’s not
necessarily a bad thing saying so makes me feel like a dirty old man. But
perhaps that’s just what I am. The thing is that there’s a lot of cleavage but
not enough boobs for it to be really sleazy. The attempt is fine to begin with
but it does not work all the way.
All in all this is a little to amateurish for
me to get off on. It’s a pretty short movie, about 70 minutes – luckily! It
feels much longer than that since the pacing is so slow. Why don’t the killer
come out and kill some of the characters already. There’s a decent teaser in
the beginning of the film, but then there’s all that cleavage… In the end
there’s an obvious attempt to surprise us which only add to the confusion. Just
make it simple next time!
But did I regret seeing this? Do I want my time
back? Not really. It was still worth my time and it should be worth your time
too. It may not be top notch but very few movies are and there are after all
some intriguing things about it. Did I mention Christy Faulkner?
4/10
Ps. having watched the first instalment of this
I can now say I get it! At least I get it more than I did before. My views
above haven’t changed, it’s still a confusing movie but if you have seen the
first film you much better off. It would facilitate your understanding for
this! Ds.
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