There are no real saving graces to this film. It has its share of gore, which will please horror fans, but it is so derivative, not only of the original film (OK the remake of an original film from way back) that it just doesn't have any suspense. It has the jittery editing, which is quite disturbing, but there is nothing about any of the characters to care about. Most of them are just being lined up to die in ever more bizarre ways. And when one character is literally pulled apart by bedsheets (I kid you not) I just found myself wondering whether once one arm had been pulled off whether he really would explode like that. It's a bit of a damning indictment when you're wondering about the physics of the scene without being drawn into it. And the face being sliced off - clever effects, but why?
It's a sequel; they've tried to do something different, but basically they've come up with much of the same. Jeffrey Coombs must be just lining his bank account, because he has very little to do here and there's no real point to his character like there was in the original.
There's a very slim plot about a statue that has special powers of some description. Steven Pacey has the most indistinguishable accent since Dick van Dyke played in Mary Poppins. Everybody dies in the order you'd expect and nobody really cares. The shots are clichéd, the script seems written by committee and the ending is such an anticlimax that you just feel grateful it's only 88 minutes of your life that you've wasted watching the film.
I actually bought this on DVD because I thought the original was deeply disturbing and weird and I expected something similar here. But they've thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Just using some similar effects doesn't make it a great film. It had such potential and they've wasted it. The acting is okay if you like cardboard cutouts, there's a huge amount of blood and the editor obviously worked hard for the money. Oh and if you can be bothered to wait until the end of the credits, there's a little extra scene, means nothing, but it seems like any excuse to have a girl take her bikini top off...
It's a sequel; they've tried to do something different, but basically they've come up with much of the same. Jeffrey Coombs must be just lining his bank account, because he has very little to do here and there's no real point to his character like there was in the original.
There's a very slim plot about a statue that has special powers of some description. Steven Pacey has the most indistinguishable accent since Dick van Dyke played in Mary Poppins. Everybody dies in the order you'd expect and nobody really cares. The shots are clichéd, the script seems written by committee and the ending is such an anticlimax that you just feel grateful it's only 88 minutes of your life that you've wasted watching the film.
I actually bought this on DVD because I thought the original was deeply disturbing and weird and I expected something similar here. But they've thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Just using some similar effects doesn't make it a great film. It had such potential and they've wasted it. The acting is okay if you like cardboard cutouts, there's a huge amount of blood and the editor obviously worked hard for the money. Oh and if you can be bothered to wait until the end of the credits, there's a little extra scene, means nothing, but it seems like any excuse to have a girl take her bikini top off...
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