 
A single father
John Porter (Michael Gross) and his
daughter Michelle (Hilary Swank) returns
to their hometown after John's mother
dies by breaking her neck from a
mysterious accident to attend her funeral
and tries to leave as soon as they can
but however John has a disturbing secret
as his sister Lisa (Leslie Danon) fell
for a group of greasers led by a guy
Tony Reno (Alexis Arquette) in a
coal mine which he uses her for a
sacrifice and John witnessed this and
then seeked revenge by killing him and
his gang.
Tony seemed to return as a demonic force
and haunts John by being around Michelle
and have some plans for her in which John
must take a stand to Tony and his gang
once again to save his daughter from his
evil grips.
A good beginning with an
old lady trying to reach for something
with a good camera angle shot looking up
on her and a ghostly presence moving what
she is trying to get as well as her
falling to the floor which looked well
done.
There's a good moment with Jon Porter staring out the window and
then a flashback happens which involves
younger characters Alan and Jon using
magnifying glasses watching a teenage girl at a
window getting undressed as well as
spotting supporting character Lisa Porter talking to Tony Reno outside with a nice shot on Jon pointing a toy gun from his window
towards him and a good close up shot on Tony giving him an evil stare and pointing his
fingers at him like a gun which looked
good.
There's a nice dream sequence with a shot
on Jon walking into a bedroom
and a shot on Jennifer fornicating with Tony in bed with a demonic feature of him as
well as good close up shots with some
sort of a devil's tail wrapped around her
and him grinning and chuckling which
seemed to work not too badly on how it
was done.
A good shot on Jon in
his vehicle staring out near a street as
well as a good shot on a coal mine and
having another flashback on both Alan and Jon spying on Tony and Lisa next to his car and
then he comes up to them getting
aggressive with them as well as the two
of them answering in fear which looked
believeable.
There's a nice shot on Jon in
the tunnel of the mine spying on what's
going on as well as Tony with his
friends doing a
cult ceremony with Lisa tied up
sobbing and screaming which had a total
horror moment on this although it
looked a wee bit cheesy but there's great
close up shots on Jon picking
up a dagger and stabbing her with it.
A nice moment present day with Michelle Porter coming in introducing Jon to Tony with a
nice shot on Jon himself turning
around and then looking shocked at what
he sees along with a good shot on him
grabbing a fireplace pic. Later on
there's a good aggressive discussion
between Jon and Michelle about him telling her he doesn't like him
which looked strongly done.
A nice effective discussion between Father Archer Roberts discussing Jon about his past
and what's haunting him in which there's
great effective shots on Father Archer acting intense and aggressive towards
him.
A good camera shot on Phil Thorn with some
sort of vines from the ground pulling him
down as well as Tony approaching him and acting wicked in a
humorous way which looked corny but well
paced. There's also a
good close up shot on the field lawnmower
approaching him.
Nice shot on Tony summoning
up one of his friends as well as a good
close up shot on Vinnie Ritacco looking demonic rising up from a pool of
blood.
There's a nice moment with Michelle, Jules Martin and Maria Moore playing fortune telling cards
in which it looked almost natural as a
bunch of friends hanging out and having
fun.
There's great reactions on them screaming
and looking scared after spotting a
bloody pentagram on the floor with a good
shocking moment on what's inside a fridge
which looked good and gruesome.
Good moment with Tony going
into a diner and acting creepy towards Maria and putting a cigarette in her food with
her really getting defensive and
intimated
as well as Vinnie swinging
a switchblade towards Tony and getting tough with him which looked
good.
Nice discussion between Vinnie and Maria out in the woods
making out along with a good camera shot
on him with a demonic
face and her screaming.
There's great camera shots on Tony flicking fortune telling cards with
good gruesome close up shots on the cards
impaling in Jules' head.
Good camera circling moments with Tony in the coal mine tunnel
taunting Jon as well as a good
shot on him about to hit Tony
with him grabbing Jon's hand
as the blocking was really on the ball.
There's a good moment with two officers escorting Michelle into their car as well as good shots on
each of them talking to her which leaves
a good impression that they aren't who
they seem to be.
Great battling moments with Jon towards Tony as well as
shots on Michelle tied up crying as this was
probably the best moments which showed
perfect camera takes on all of them as
well as their energy.
I don't know if
I'd consider this film to be a true
sequel or not since the story was
completely different with different
character's alltogether. What it does
have in common compared to the first film
is that it is about someone disturbed
about their past about some deaths of
greasers who come back from the dead as
evil spirits.
However, the story in the first one was
quite dark and there's alot of dark
comedy in this one which seems common for
horror sequels to make up for the
creepiness from the first one. It may
work for others but not me.
There are some interesting moments with
the flashback sequences which seems to
work quite well and good one liners from
the main bad dude Tony Reno towards the
innocent child Jon as you think he might
do something physical to him.
However the cult ceremony with Tony doing
a sacrifice which looked a little too
obvious though and not convincing enough.
In other words pretty cheesy.
There's some shocking moments in the film
too which may be hard to watch like a pig
that's slaughtered or someone cutting off
their finger which did look pretty
painful on how it was set out too. The
film also had some descent effects too
for a low budgeter.
Yet there were some cheesy moments with
some humor that the writers tried to
ripoff what Freddy Krueger would do
before killing his victims as well as
some moments with these greaser ghosts
looking demonic as it reminded me on
similar elements in the Night of
the Demons trilogies (All three
of those were done in much better taste).
Plus there is a moment that involves a
lawmower type vehicle about to run over a
guy's head in the film which was fun and
shocking to watch too.
Bottom line is this film was different in
every way and may disappoint the fans of
the first one plus it tried so hard to be
funny with the main demonic character
joking around before killing his victims
but even that fell flat. The film is fun
to watch if you're in the mood for it and
has the odd entertaining moment
especially close to the finish of it but
if you want a higly entertained horror
film this one isn't it.
The acting is not
too bad as Michael Gross (Jon Porter) usually
delivers his parts quite well with
anything I've seen in him since his fame
in Family Ties. He
really brings his part out fairly
strongly and shows good disturbed
expressions when he's bothered by his
past as well as showing the odd
aggressions too which came out very
realistically.
Alexis Arquette (Tony Reno) really showed great
nasty expressions and came across
perfectly as a greaser in the flick and
knew how to act obnoxious and evil too.
Plus he did show some good timing when
he's resurrected as a demonic ghost with
his dark humor showing a ton of great
energy and never slowing down at what he
did for his character. He's probably the
best out of the whole cast.
Hilary Swank (Michelle Porter) had the nice girl next
door appeal to her but however she just
seemed average in her role on the film.
She wasn't bad but she didn't seem too
convincing as a character actress at all.
Bojesse Christopher (Vinnie Ritacco) seemed to bring
on a nice evil charm to his role as
another greaser resurrected as he shows
alot of great characteristics in his part
and came across nicely onto the camera
whenever he performed too.
William Morgan Sheppard (Father
Archer Roberts) really
brought it on as an eccentric preacher
having a maniacal type aggressive voice
when he said his lines and just came off
as one of those key members in the film
that introduced the story and the terror
that was surrounding it. He certainly
brought attention with what he did and
can be well remembered for his role in
this one.
Michael Stadvec (Phil Thorn) portrayed
someone who was mentally challenged in
the film but yet he looks like an actor
trying to portray this and doesn't act
natural by portraying this part at all. I
was not the least bit convinced and
seemed to lack a bit while doing so.
Ingrid Shtare takes off her top
in a window of her bedroom fully bare
breasted.
Bojesse Christopher has his butt
exposed after rising from a pool of
blood.
Jennifer Aspen unbuttons her shirt
exposing her breasts near a wooded area
in the dark.
A stomach is
stabbed by a dagger.
A thumb is cut off.
A persons head is run over by a lawnmower
with a cut off hand revealed.
A slaughtered pig is revealed in a fridge
with it's blood used as an astral
pattern.
A person's ears is inside a mail package.
A girl's head and neck is stabbed by a
bunch of fortune telling cards.
A head is sliced
There's some good heavy
drum beats with alot of the heavy
suspense used in the film as well as
great strong chanting sounds which
sounded incredible. Plus there's some
light piano tapping from what you'd hear
in an 80's slasher flick like A
Nightmare on Elm Street and Silent
Night Deadly Night. There's also
great advenrtureous trombone playing too
used in some powerful scene's to top it
all off. This was greatly composed by Peter
Manning Robinson. |
