Never watched the first movie. Check this out because it had Scream Queen Danielle Harris playing Amy, a mortician, who decided to cancel her birthday plans with her friends to assist her coworker with the influx of bodies from Jacob Goodnight's killing spree including the supposed corpse of Jacob who's not really dead. Her friends decide to bring the party to her, sneak in the morgue, and the killing spree begins. The positives of this movie is good dialogue and chemistry amongst the cast. Katherine Isabelle, Danielle Harris,Kaj-Erik Eriksen, & Michael Eklund. The rest are just standard. The jump scares throughout the movie and the first two acts were good but the movie lost its steam in the final act.
The negatives are the protagonists seemed weak and helpless against the villian when trapped in a morgue with plenty of weapons to cut open bodies. Likable characters are murdered for shock value. Instead of fighting back. It's more like hiding from the bad guy.When a moment arrives to insure the death of Jacob, the protagonist doesn't take advantage of it. The viewer is left with no one to root for. The only thing the creators of this movie forgot is horror movies are about survivalism in being placed in a horrific situation. The audience wants a final girl/guy character to root for whether it's Jamie Strode in Halloween or Nancy Thompson in Nightmare on Elm Street. They want a compelling victim. The only scene which somewhat made Jacob interesting was the bathroom scene when he felt conflicted in murdering yet it was undermined by the victim dying any way from her injuries. I guess his character is motivated by a mix of Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees and Pyscho's Norman Bates. Both influenced by a pyschotic deceased mother. The brother's death was cruel and mean spirited yet symbolic of the hopelessness of this movie. Harris' Laurie Strode Halloween: H20 moment made her seem small and puny compared to Jacob. Seth was an interesting character but he had two opportunities to kill Jacob and he didn't do it. The final shock scene was annoying. Everyone dies and the villian wins. It's a hopeless movie where evil triumphs over good.
Finding a decent horror movie is like trying to find a needle in the haystack. So I have very low expectations for these movies. All I ask is good, creative plot, good writing and storyline, interesting characters played by actors who can act, an interesting villian and hero/heroine I want to root for and survive, some well-timed jump scares, and a movie that's scary but not gory and unnecessary sex scenes fillers. Enjoyed the first two acts but after Will's death, the only character who actually really stood up to Jacob and wounded him, the movie went downhill.
Another insulting thing is Will sarcificed his life to save his sister's life. This movie rewarded his sarcfice by killing off his sister making his death pointless. Good attempt at horror by WWE. From the flashbacks, I will probably never watch the original but this movie seems like an improvement from the original. However, the creators of this movie needs to focus on creating a more compelling villian and a stronger ending with a sympathetic hero/heroine to root for, which they had with Amy. Yes, I was annoyed with Amy being murdered on her birthday after witnessing the death of her friends, her brother, her coworkers and finding love too. But I was extremely annoyed that the character of Seth, a beta male compared to Amy's alpha male brother Will who died fighting the villian to give his sister and Seth a chance to escape, was killed also. The movie missed a perfect opportunity to carry on the franchise with Amy or Seth with Amy being the stronger character.
So not the greatest with a final act that drags on but an improvement compared to other horror films with a good cast doing the best with the material given. It's worth a watch.
The negatives are the protagonists seemed weak and helpless against the villian when trapped in a morgue with plenty of weapons to cut open bodies. Likable characters are murdered for shock value. Instead of fighting back. It's more like hiding from the bad guy.When a moment arrives to insure the death of Jacob, the protagonist doesn't take advantage of it. The viewer is left with no one to root for. The only thing the creators of this movie forgot is horror movies are about survivalism in being placed in a horrific situation. The audience wants a final girl/guy character to root for whether it's Jamie Strode in Halloween or Nancy Thompson in Nightmare on Elm Street. They want a compelling victim. The only scene which somewhat made Jacob interesting was the bathroom scene when he felt conflicted in murdering yet it was undermined by the victim dying any way from her injuries. I guess his character is motivated by a mix of Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees and Pyscho's Norman Bates. Both influenced by a pyschotic deceased mother. The brother's death was cruel and mean spirited yet symbolic of the hopelessness of this movie. Harris' Laurie Strode Halloween: H20 moment made her seem small and puny compared to Jacob. Seth was an interesting character but he had two opportunities to kill Jacob and he didn't do it. The final shock scene was annoying. Everyone dies and the villian wins. It's a hopeless movie where evil triumphs over good.
Finding a decent horror movie is like trying to find a needle in the haystack. So I have very low expectations for these movies. All I ask is good, creative plot, good writing and storyline, interesting characters played by actors who can act, an interesting villian and hero/heroine I want to root for and survive, some well-timed jump scares, and a movie that's scary but not gory and unnecessary sex scenes fillers. Enjoyed the first two acts but after Will's death, the only character who actually really stood up to Jacob and wounded him, the movie went downhill.
Another insulting thing is Will sarcificed his life to save his sister's life. This movie rewarded his sarcfice by killing off his sister making his death pointless. Good attempt at horror by WWE. From the flashbacks, I will probably never watch the original but this movie seems like an improvement from the original. However, the creators of this movie needs to focus on creating a more compelling villian and a stronger ending with a sympathetic hero/heroine to root for, which they had with Amy. Yes, I was annoyed with Amy being murdered on her birthday after witnessing the death of her friends, her brother, her coworkers and finding love too. But I was extremely annoyed that the character of Seth, a beta male compared to Amy's alpha male brother Will who died fighting the villian to give his sister and Seth a chance to escape, was killed also. The movie missed a perfect opportunity to carry on the franchise with Amy or Seth with Amy being the stronger character.
So not the greatest with a final act that drags on but an improvement compared to other horror films with a good cast doing the best with the material given. It's worth a watch.