by Cookie N Screen
I like to think that there are two ways to enter a horror film. You either, for some reason, want to be scared completely out of your wits (and tits); or you want to have fun. After all, we’ve gone so passed desensitisation that it has flipped around and a truly amazing horror is one that can enthrall us with amazing comedy. You have to go into creating your horror film with these thoughts. You are going to blow people's sense of safety and security away from them and leave them putting the lights on whilst they sleep; Or you are going to pick some actress, get them to scream and flail around with hilarity. Guess which section See No Evil 2 falls in?
I like to think that there are two ways to enter a horror film. You either, for some reason, want to be scared completely out of your wits (and tits); or you want to have fun. After all, we’ve gone so passed desensitisation that it has flipped around and a truly amazing horror is one that can enthrall us with amazing comedy. You have to go into creating your horror film with these thoughts. You are going to blow people's sense of safety and security away from them and leave them putting the lights on whilst they sleep; Or you are going to pick some actress, get them to scream and flail around with hilarity. Guess which section See No Evil 2 falls in?
See No Evil 2 is the follow up DVD release of the original See No Evil from Gregory Dark. This time American Mary directors, the Soska Sisters, are at the helm, lifting off exactly where the first ended with the terror-wielding serial killer, Jacob Goodnight, back slicing and dicing anyone in his path. When Jacob's supposedly dead body is taken to a morgue, all seems pleasant and normal as pathologists Amy and Sean study the body, and then promptly celebrate Amy’s birthday with her friends. However, Goodnight is not quite dead and when he is alerted to more victims, he promptly springs to life – tormented by his religiously-twisted dead mother – and goes on a killing spree. Can they escape this mammoth of a serial killer?
Do you know what? Genuinely, it’s not that bad. I fully went into this film with little to no expectations and was pleasantly surprised. Rating much higher than the original movies, this sequel is a bit of a gem. It’s not overly horrific, nor is it completely hilarious, but it is manageable. It feels fun and when Jacob comes back to life and the bloody murders come in, you can sit back, put little effort into it and feel mildly satisfied. It’s not perfection, but it’s not quite shite either. It’s like a brunch really, not vital to your meal component but when under-taking, you’ll lap up every slice of gory bacon.
Do you know what? Genuinely, it’s not that bad. I fully went into this film with little to no expectations and was pleasantly surprised. Rating much higher than the original movies, this sequel is a bit of a gem. It’s not overly horrific, nor is it completely hilarious, but it is manageable. It feels fun and when Jacob comes back to life and the bloody murders come in, you can sit back, put little effort into it and feel mildly satisfied. It’s not perfection, but it’s not quite shite either. It’s like a brunch really, not vital to your meal component but when under-taking, you’ll lap up every slice of gory bacon.
And one of those golden and juicy slices, so much so that she deserves her own paragraph, is Katherine Isabelle. Many will know this Horror Queen from such films as American Mary or have grown with her in Ginger Snaps (as well as the brilliant turn as Margot Verger in the Hannibal television series). Anyway, here she completely hams it up and enjoys every second of it. She is clearly taking the most pleasure here by being mildly weird, super strange and exuberant, screaming down the corridors of the morgue. Now... SPOILERS... she is killed far too soon, because Isabelle is hilarious and should have survived to the end despite her “beside a morgue” shagging that she undertakes.
I feel sort of bad pressing play on this. It’s a wriggling, niggling feeling under my skin, because it’s genuinely tosh. It’s not that it deserves to clang to the bottom of a trash can, but it doesn’t deserve its praises entirely sang. Just. If you love stupid, silly, trashy horror movies and you want a film where you can guess what happens, but don’t rightly care because everyone is having the best time doing it, then See No Evil 2 is worth a watch.
See No Evil 2 is out on DVD Now
I feel sort of bad pressing play on this. It’s a wriggling, niggling feeling under my skin, because it’s genuinely tosh. It’s not that it deserves to clang to the bottom of a trash can, but it doesn’t deserve its praises entirely sang. Just. If you love stupid, silly, trashy horror movies and you want a film where you can guess what happens, but don’t rightly care because everyone is having the best time doing it, then See No Evil 2 is worth a watch.
See No Evil 2 is out on DVD Now
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