Review: Ok, it's a horror film, it has a 2 after it, and only one person from the original cast shows up ... so how good can this be? You know what? It's a lot of fun.

It's not the best horror film by any stretch of the imagination but it never tries to do anything than give you some jumpy moments, some gorrific sights and, oddly, at points, make you laugh.

The cast overall may have been the weakest part of the film, but as the acting never has to reach Oscar moments this is a nit-picky point. What I watched the movie for was to have a reasonably coherent storyline with a lot of deaths. I'm a sick person that way.

I got what I wanted. Director David Ellis, a former stunt man himself has loaded up the opening with a nice build-up that reaches into a vicious, nasty car crash. Fire, logs, bodies, all fly through the air and become part of the wreckage and it is so compelling you can't stop watching.

This leads into the cheating death set up by the first one. In fact what is really nice about this script is that it does reach back to the first film and tries to figure out a solid storyline from any possible loose ends that might exist and weave them back into a whole with this one.

I am giving this a very solid 4 outof 5 as a fun horror flick to watch, although a little gory in parts, a little goofy in others with a few too many expository scenes to keep the audience on track, it was the inventive death sequences that impressed me. When you thought you knew where one part was going, they change path and go another route and when you catch up, the script takes another turn. It just makes it much more fun to play keep up.

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The DVD Review:
The DVD Review: Infinifilm Version

Basically if it has the words Infinifilm on it, the disc is going to rank in the very high range of 4 or 5 out of 5. These discs are loaded with trivia tracks that you can watch as the movie runs along with the beyond the movie version that allows you to scope casting sequences, s/fx pieces, scritping, directing, behind the scenes, music videos and more. I may sound like a shill for New Line and the Infinifilm DVD line, but they do what I wish all discs were like...cutting edge and full of fascinating material.

One of the more interesting documentary bits was the featurette that presented a history lesson on The Grand Guignol - The French Theatre of Fear and Terror at the turn of the century, and then going into the 60's and presenting images of Bloodfeast (1963), the first gore film ever made alongside interviews with said Godfather of Gore Herschell Gordon Lewis.

Another fascinating piece of the disc is the 'Terror Gauge'. The filmmakers hooked some teens up to some ol' machinery that would read their brainwaves as they watched the death sequences. Some of the reactions, especially of the guys, was hysterical.

Still, the thing that made me laugh the hardest was the 'Bus Blooper Reel' at around the 1 hour mark. The bus death from the first film was applied to all the new teen death in this film and it was hysterical. At first it seemed kind of lame and then it got funnier and funnier.

Anyway, I can't cover all the stuff on this DVD without boring you to death (ha! get it?) So I'll just say, again, the movie is a solid 4 out of 5 for the horror genre and a 4.5 out of 5 for the DVD set! The sense of history, practical effects all mixed with the new world of cgi makes for some great featurette material.