WWE Studios very rarely if ever for that matter turn out a good film and so it was quite shocking that all of their films to get a sequel apart from The Marine movies we would get a sequel to their so far one and only slasher film. I will admit that as someone who was a fan of the first film heck I even went out and brought the first movie on DVD the day of release I was excited to see this film but now on the eve of this films ten year anniversary does the film still hold up well let's find out and so then join me as I review the film is so far the only horror sequel that WWE Studios have ever produced with the film in question being called simply just "See No Evil 2" enjoy.
The plot of this film is a morgue worker Amy , her friend Seth and their boss Holden along with Amy's friends finds themselves the latest target's of serial killer Jacob Goodnight and have to fight to stay alive from the thought dead killer. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad altho it was just the bogstanderd slasher horror film plot and really nothing more then that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is wrestling legend Glenn Jacobs AKA Kane as as Jacob Goodnight and horror icon Danielle Harris as Amy. Also starring in this film is horror icon Katharine Isabelle as Tamara , Kaj-Erik Eriksen as Seth , Chelan Simmons as Kayla , Greyston Holt as Will , Lee Majdoub as Carter , Michael Eklund as Holden , this films co-director Sylvia Soska as Corpse and this films co-director Jen Soska as Corpse.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With all of this films cast members doing their best to turn in a good performances with who you think turning in a good performance doing exactly that however what let's this films cast down is the fact that this films script is just that bad with the actors in this film being unable to turn in a great performance as this films script gives the cast nothing to work with interms of what their respective characters personalities eve are or are even meant to be for that matter.
What set the first film apart from all of the other slashers out their is the fact that it made it's main killer more of a sympathetic character. All of that is sadly gone in this film as he's gone from killing people because that's all he knew what to do and truly believing that he was doing the right thing due to his upbringing by his mother to being someone who kills people just for the sake of it and that robs the character of all of the growth that he went through in the first film and made him just another slasher killer only with out the charm and the charisma to make him truly standout and make feel more like a unique character.
Usually in the realm of slasher horror sequels it takes them a while to get around to killing of the killer and bringing him back in the very next film in some stupid way. However this film did it in the first sequel by having Jacob come back without any kind of explanation with the character now being pretty much unable to truly die which wouldn't be a bad thing if they at the very least explained how he survived being killed of at the end of the first film as that is something that even the worse horror sequels tend to do either by explaining it away in dialog or by having a time jump but this film does neither of those two things.
To this films credit it does try to have to make it's main hero characters come across as being likable characters. However as the films characters have no personality traits to speak of they don't come across as being likable they instead come across as being rather one dimensional and boring with all of this films characters being done better in other slasher films which is a shame as this films co-directors The Soska Sisters know how to make likable horror characters heck one of their most famous films has them making the villain extremely likable ad yet due to this films bad script they just can't make this films set of main hero characters even close to being likable.
What I really liked about this film is the fact that none of the main characters make it out of the film alive. Which I believe is something that really isn't done in horror films let alone slasher films and so to see it done here was shocking even more so when you take into account the film spends alot of time setting up Danielle Harris to be this films final girl only to have her be killed of at the start of this films third act leaving only Erik Eriksen's character to take on Jacob alone but then the film goes and kills him off leaving us with no survivors which is something that does oddly work for this film as it sets you up nicely for a sequel should one ever come along and it gives us some truly nice looking kills along the way as well.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty minuets and twelve seconds. Which is pretty much the exact running time that I was expecting from this film as this film is really light on plot so much so that I was left wondering what the actual plot of this film even was alot of the time but at the same time I wanted this film to be a little bit longer just so the film would then have the chance to fully develop it's characters alot more then what it really does which in turn would make their deaths all the more tragic as we'd have gotten more time to really get to know these characters as actual people and not just cardboard cutouts and I will admit this film does also have some really good pacing as well.
So now then as this is a slasher film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film were in all honesty really cool. With this film featuring alot of really good deaths and even tho this film does feature CGI blood with the CGI being provided by COMEN VFX that doesn't take away from the fact that this films kills were really cool and were really creative to look at in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall the first film is still quite easily the better one but at the same time I do like this film for at the very least trying to continue the story of Jacob Goodnight even if the first film firmly ended that story in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review ans as such that means that this very film earns a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Headhunters Horror House fandom wiki page , the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Image actually has images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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