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The Path of Evil (2005)
New and Improved
This 'Harvest of Fear' sequel is a better film overall, but still falls short of being great, in this reviewer's humble opinion. Most criticism of the first film was with the writing and the acting talent of the lead characters. Besides the obvious improvement of Justin Ament's abilities, those elements were not improved upon. In fact, the script was even more predictable and cliché this time out (I was whispering the dialog to my girlfriend a beat before it would fall out the actors' mouths), there were extraneous characters and story lines, silly scare tactics were way over-used, and aside from Ament, the young leads showed no improvement in their work. One actress was badly miscast in her role, most likely because she was willing to do the nudity. This is not to say that all of the actors missed the mark- Thomas Nabhan, Don Alder, and Curt Hanson, all veterans of Portland stage and screen, showed prowess in their roles. Another big problem with this movie is the makeup... this may be a little bit nit-picky, but the shot of young Jake with heavy eye shadow and lipstick was laughable, and Katie O'Grady (a beautiful woman and skilled actress) looked more like a call girl than an enthusiastic criminal justice student. Having seen 'Harvest of Fear', I began to wonder (about 30 minutes in) why this movie was taking me down the identical path as the first one, with no new twists in the plot. Eventually the ending came along and... BOOM! a plot twist for the sake of having a plot twist, albeit an unexpected one. This film does not need to be buried under a foam grave marker on a coastal cliff, and I'm sure fans of the genre will watch it once, but that's about all I can say about it.