PLOT
It's closing time at Camp Placid Pines and all the camp leaders are getting ready to go home to the civilization again. When there are only three days left before they can go home they decide to play a game of Bloody Murder. Once again, someone has taken the game way to seriously and starts killing everyone who comes near the camp.
REVIEW
So, I'm guessing that I wasn't the only one who had read all these smashing reviews on IMDB and Amazon? Well, I for one knew that it was just one or two persons that had written all these reviews to create a big buzz about the whole movie, and as easily fooled some people are, the rumors about this being fantastic started to spread quickly. I have to admit that even my expectations grew quite high. And so this sequel finally sees the light of day, it opens up in a cheesy dream sequence and your expectations drop faster than a bomb. After the first 20 minutes or so, all you've seen was almost identical to what happened in the first movie, but when the movie finally gets going, this actually kind of lived up to its rumors. It's gory, it's entertaining, and it's naked. While not being a totally satisfying movie, this is still so much better than the first one, and they actually replaced that ridiculous hockey mask with a cool Halloween style one, which resembled a bit too much of the mask used in Bleed.
This was the debut for many young good-looking actors and actresses and I have to say that it was quite a good one, though I don't think we will be seeing a lot of these actors again, perhaps some of them but definitely not all. Katy Woodruff actually took me by surprise as she gives a terrible performance to begin with and slowly gets into character and ends up being a very talented actress indeed. Rob Spera, who directed some of the worst movies in horror history like Leprechaun In The Hood and Witchcraft is still not a very good director, but he's improving. The directing looks good and all, but the sequence transfers look bad and rough and doesn't look very professional at all.
If you are one of those who's expecting a movie as bad as the first one, you'd have to think again. While this is far from a flaw- less movie, it's still very entertaining and doesn't rip off the Friday The 13th movies as much as the first one did. Also, it tries to get away from the average predictable teenage slashers, going against just about every rule in modern slashers there is. I actually hope that there will be a Bloody Murder 3, just to see if they can improve it a bit more, maybe even get it onto the video chart. Who knows, Bloody Murder 5 might even go onto cinemas if they continue to improve as much as they did this time. There was even a quite suspenseful scene in this movie, believe it or not.
GORE
Thank god there were no off screen killings, I was almost certain that we only would get to see like one or two persons get killed. Instead, we get a dismembered leg, a person loses the head, one gets a machete vertically slashed into the head, one gets both legs amputated by our nice killer, one gets a chainsaw through the stomach and one gets an arrow through the neck. Then we have some blood splatter aswell, which doesn't feel very necessary to bring up, I mean, compared to what I just said.
SOUNDTRACK
This is where this movie really fails, using the exact same music in two of the woods scenes as was used in the woods scene in the low budget horrormovie Granny. The rest of the soundtrack is pretty lame and definitely nothing original.
BOTTOM LINE
The movie that I didn't think was ever going to see the light of day turned out to be better than it processor. This was actually quite good and I want all of you to rent or buy this, just to support the making of a third movie, which I think might be even better. The mask has improved a lot since the last time, and I hope that if they make a third one, they bring Trevor to the big city instead as I'm not that fond of camp horrormovies. Still, this is something that I think everyone should watch, just give it a try, I guarantee you that you will like it more than the first one.
Review By: AnthroFred