2/10
No. nonononono no no no NO NO
28 March 2009
Warning: Spoilers
So the original movie had a killer who escaped from a mental hospital and teleported into a phone-repair-woman's van, then preceded to kill -everyone- he saw. He wasn't completely insane, as he went to great lengths to hide every one of his victims, but there was so little apparent reason behind his motives that I actually wanted to watch to the end to find out the answer to my "wtf?" But this... this 'sequel'.. 5 years later and following the youngest of the original movie's survivors. She has her nightmares still about it, but the original killer is inexplicably replaced with the rock&roll cowboy with a totally insane enormous guitar drill. I can only assume it's a crossover of her own guitar-playing drill-massacre hallucinatory state of mind that explains this. But whatever.. That doesn't let them off the singing psycho.

It all started reasonably enough. Flashbacks to the first movie to explain her state of mind, an extended introduction to all the lame characters and their setting. The oh so unexpected "Crying Wolf" to the police, etc.. And after not getting very far up the hill in the first place, it quite successfully turned right around and rolled straight back down again.

OK yes, and the chase scene at the end.. The incongruity of him appearing in front of them at every point up until then mixing with his needing their blood-trail to find them was slightly odd... That was perhaps an irrelevant issue to raise when it came to the very end however... It seemed to try to make a little sense of the events, then pull that apart until it stops explaining a damned thing.

I like a good, weird film. I really do! This was just wrong, though. It's a shame.. I nearly thought this was going to be fun. Bleh
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