Having seen the original 1978 film and becoming an instant fan and later learning of a sequel I immediately didn't have high hopes for this considering it was decades later little did I know that this was in fact the sequel to not the 78
film but the 2004 remake which I hadn't even know about which I will now check out.
As for the film itself once the opening credits started rolling and the flashy metal music started to blare I was thinking cheapness and just another young director making a quick buck on an old classic and was beginning to have serious doubts about what was to come but I kept an open mind and while this isn't perfect it has its strong points and weak for the good the setting is a abandoned warehouse in L.A which is a plus because the original was in that city and this was a creepy setting for such a deranged killer to be hiding out and this film unlike the original focused more on the main victims internment against her will and what she had to endure which in the original that angle was only explored during the last few minutes so I did like the fact that they went a different direction,the kills in this movie are as gruesome as you can get especially the part where the killer is cooking a victim in a over and basting the corpse absolutely brutal not to mention the shocking treatment dished out to the female victim who eventually goes semi insane but still had the will to live and used her smarts to escape the situation also with the help of other vagrants living within the same warehouse.
Now the bad I would have liked some connection to the original maybe some backstory as to why the masked killer is doing what he is doing or if he is a relation something or you never get to really see the killer in action stalking or picking out victims you only see him bring the people back,there was a confusing part for me in this film where in the beginning Samantha comes home to find her sister murdered by the killer and she is told to come to the police station while waiting in the back of a cruiser she is harassed by a vagrant and she shuts the backside passenger door and a minute later the vagrant violently killed by the masked killer who then abducts Samantha but while she is later trapped in the warehouse this being after the incident I just described she has a flashback of being interviewed by a black detective about who the killer could be and she is outside and its daylight she is with her boyfriend talking so I don't know how this could be when in the beginning she was taken from the murder scene but a different cop and it was night time when she was abducted it gives the impression that she was at the scene two separate times when in the beginning the very first time she was at the scene is when she was abducted unless the flashback took place on the same day then it doesn't make sense.
Not bad for something that is clearly B level and couldn't possibly live up to the original it was one of those films that started out weak and slowly got bit by bit better and the actress Chauntal Lewis did a great job in my opinion at playing the part and one key thing she did well was not screaming in such a way where it is like nails across a board which was realistic very well done so if you've seen the original or the remake I'd recommend seeing this just for the fact that it is part of the series and tbh its not terrible its alright.
As for the film itself once the opening credits started rolling and the flashy metal music started to blare I was thinking cheapness and just another young director making a quick buck on an old classic and was beginning to have serious doubts about what was to come but I kept an open mind and while this isn't perfect it has its strong points and weak for the good the setting is a abandoned warehouse in L.A which is a plus because the original was in that city and this was a creepy setting for such a deranged killer to be hiding out and this film unlike the original focused more on the main victims internment against her will and what she had to endure which in the original that angle was only explored during the last few minutes so I did like the fact that they went a different direction,the kills in this movie are as gruesome as you can get especially the part where the killer is cooking a victim in a over and basting the corpse absolutely brutal not to mention the shocking treatment dished out to the female victim who eventually goes semi insane but still had the will to live and used her smarts to escape the situation also with the help of other vagrants living within the same warehouse.
Now the bad I would have liked some connection to the original maybe some backstory as to why the masked killer is doing what he is doing or if he is a relation something or you never get to really see the killer in action stalking or picking out victims you only see him bring the people back,there was a confusing part for me in this film where in the beginning Samantha comes home to find her sister murdered by the killer and she is told to come to the police station while waiting in the back of a cruiser she is harassed by a vagrant and she shuts the backside passenger door and a minute later the vagrant violently killed by the masked killer who then abducts Samantha but while she is later trapped in the warehouse this being after the incident I just described she has a flashback of being interviewed by a black detective about who the killer could be and she is outside and its daylight she is with her boyfriend talking so I don't know how this could be when in the beginning she was taken from the murder scene but a different cop and it was night time when she was abducted it gives the impression that she was at the scene two separate times when in the beginning the very first time she was at the scene is when she was abducted unless the flashback took place on the same day then it doesn't make sense.
Not bad for something that is clearly B level and couldn't possibly live up to the original it was one of those films that started out weak and slowly got bit by bit better and the actress Chauntal Lewis did a great job in my opinion at playing the part and one key thing she did well was not screaming in such a way where it is like nails across a board which was realistic very well done so if you've seen the original or the remake I'd recommend seeing this just for the fact that it is part of the series and tbh its not terrible its alright.