It is
eight years after the horrible incident
when Reggie (Reggie Bannister) told Mike
the horrible news that his brother dies
in a car accident but it was actually
created by these hellish creatures from
antoher world led by a person named the
Tall Man (Angus Scrimm). Mike (James
LeGros) spent time in a psychiatric
clinic but is convinced that the Tall Man
is still out there digging up graves.
After Reggie's house explodes, him and
Mike are travelling around the country
trying to track down the Tall Man
bringing all kinds of weapons before he
wreaks havoc against a beautiful woman
that is in danger named Liz (Paula
Irvine) that Mike is always having dreams
about although he has never met her but
both of them communicate through each
others minds.
He also experienced an image of a dead
corpse in an abandoned mortuary that he
also dreamt about afterwards.
Then suddenly Reggie picks her up and she
is fully alive and she introduces herself
as Alchemy (Samantha Phillips). Both of
these experiences that Mike is having is
leading towards where the Tall Man is
residing.
Meanwhile, Liz discovers that her
Grandmother (Ruth C. Engel) has
disappeared after her Grandfathers death
and enters a mortuary where the Tall Man
is residing in order to find her but she
is terrorised by him and one of his
creatures.
Mike tries rescue her but then the Tall
Man kidnaps her again and is sent to a
crematorium. It's now up to Mike and
Reggie to rescue her again from his evil
clutches before it's too late.
The sequel is a
little disappointing as I expected it to
be a little better than this.
During this time period there were alot
of corny horror flick and sadly this
sequel became one of them.
There are some good effects in this film
with the odd monstrous moments too plus
some deadlier steel balls with the blades
pointing out for the kill. So it's fun to
watch but not even as close as good as
the original. Oh well.
Coscerelli heavily borrowed elements
from other horror flicks and used it in
this one too to top it all off.
The acting is
quite dated and not as effective like in
the first film but it's still passable. James
LeGros this time plays the role of
Mike but however, doesn't fit the part
too well. He still can deliver his
character as much as he can.
Reggie Bannister still can act kooky
and a natural ham with his part. When he
acts menacing though he seems a little
too comedic but again I think it was
intentional.
Angus Scrimm still pulls his weight
as the Tall Man but doesn't seem as dark
with his performance like in the first
film. He can still prove to be menacing.
Paula Irvine really proved herself
to be a mysterious one in the film and
showing her stuff quite well too.
Samantha Phillips has a great
presence to her part in the film as a new
cast member. She had the right looks too
to top it all off.
There is a full
naked corpse of Alchemy lying on
a table in an abandoned Mortuary.
Alchemy is then naked while
fornicating with Reggie but is
wearing panties.
A creature forms
out of the back of a blonde woman who is
gagged.
A steel ball cuts off a priests ear.
A hand is cut off by one of the Tall
Man's people and a steel ball cut's
through his body.
Another one of the Tall Man's people is
hacked by a chainsaw.
The Tall Man's face starts to melt away.
The side of Alchemy's head is sliced off.
Don Coscarelli
was much better directing his first
flick and is quite cheesy with his work
in this one.
He does shows some good battle scene's
that involves Reggie Bannister
battling those little elf like creatures
in the house and then running out with a
good background shot on the house
exploding.
There's a good dialogue sequence between
Bannister and James LeGros at
a graveyard arguing what the truth is and
the Tall Man terrorising them as it
looked quite strong.
There's a good shot with Angus Scrimm
coming up from behind Paula Irvine
and placing a hand on her telling her the
funreal is about to start like he did in
the first film.
Cocarelli has great shots of the mortuary
as well as Bannister and LeGros
checking things out plus a good shot on
Samantha Phillips gagged and leaning
down near a corny along with a neat
effects shot on some creature forming on
her back which looked icky and creepy.
Bannister does well acting menacing
by shooting his flamethrower at her.
We have a good shot on bit part actor Rubin
Kuchner as Grandpa returning from
the dead lying in bed staring and talking
ghostly towards bit part actress Ruth
C. Engel as Grandma and a nice
screaming reaction from her.
Bannister does well by opening up a
door with a chainsaw showing menacing
actions.
We show an interesting scene with LeGros
and Phillips lying in bed
together telecommunicating with one
another as they are dreaming which almost
makes you think of A Nightmare On
Elm Street.
Meanwhile we have a scene between Bannister
with a lustful scene between Paula Irvine which
looked corny and quite phony and
unbelieveable. Just way too much.
We have a good scene between Scrimm
coming up towards supporting actor Kenneth
Tigar as a preacher and acting cold
and deadly towards him.
There's a good shot on a steel ball
attacking and killing Tigar as
he reacts well to all of this.
We have a great shot on Irvine
with a dwarf trying to drag her and then
a nice shot on Scrimm picking
her up by the neck.
We have some good shots on Irvine lying
down and getting pushed in a cremtory
fire with her suddenly leaping to life
and whacking supporting actor Mark
Anthony Major as a mortician with a
shovel and trying to defend herself to
get away.
There's also a good shot with a steel
ball with the camera behind it aiming
towards Major and hitting his
hand as he reacts well to the pain as
well as the steel ball drilling his hand.
There's another great scene with another
steel ball grinding through his body with
him screaming.
There's also terrific dark shots on both Phillips
and LeGros hiding in a dark
storage room with a steel ball looking
around with a neat red light effect on
it.
There's another great camera shooting
behind a steel ball aiming towards
Phillips and LeGros running
away trying to slam a door each time with
the ball breaking them open each time.
We have a good shot on Bannister
holding a chainsaw challenging his enemy
in a corny kind of way as Coscarelli
borrows heavily on Tobe Hoopers chainsaw
fighting scene from Texas
Chainsaw Massacre 2.
There's a great moment with Scrimm
trying to push both Bannister
and LeGros into the metal bars
to the other world.
There's a great effects shot with the two
of them on some rocks and a creature from
a barrel crawling towards LeGros and
then Bannister struggling with
him and then pulling him away.
We have a great scene with LeGros
trying to kill Scrimm with his
own steel balls. Don did a great
job directing that scene for sure.
The music is very
late 80's cheese sounding composed once
again by Fred Myrow with some
help by Christopher L. Stone.
There are some good metal scratching
sounds and the updated keyboard chiming
sounds.
The Tall Man: You
think that when you die, you go to
Heaven. You come to us!
Reggie: Come on.
Lets go kick some ass.
[Reggie revs up his
chainsaw, about to take on one of the
Tall Man's henchmen]
Reggie: Come on, you mutha!
[the Tall Man is
planning to inject Liz with embalming
fluid, which Reggie has spiked with acid]
Mike: Hey!
[the Tall Man glances up]
Mike: Suck on this!
[Mike releases a captured silver
sphere, which flies directly to the Tall
Man's head and inserts a drill into the
front of his skull. A yellowish fluid
flies from the back of the sphere, but
after it stops, the Tall Man rips the
sphere from his head & crushes it
like a beer can]
[Mike & Liz are in
the back of a hearse after escaping the
mortuary & the Tall Man. Reggie has
just been attacked by Alchemy in the
hearse's front & thrown out of the
car]
Mike: One minute... we're gonna
wake up. This is only a dream.
Liz: That's right... it's only a
dream!
[the barrier to the hearse front
suddenly slides down. The Tall Man is
sitting at the wheel and glaring back at
them]
The Tall Man: No! It's not!
[the back window breaks, and Mike
& Liz are pulled out by the Tall
Man's dwarf zombies]
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