SEE NO EVIL 2

See No Evil 2 Movie Review

Murderous madman Jacob Goodnight (pro wrestler/Knox County Mayor Kane/Glenn Jacobs) rises from the dead to kill party-goers celebrating undertaker Amy’s birthday.

This seems like a really bad idea

This film picks up where the original left off, as we see Jacob and his victims being moved from the scene of the crimes. If you have seen the 2006 movie, you will notice a couple things almost immediately as you watch the sequel--the horrendous editing and CGI of the first film are gone, and the acting in this one is a HUUUGE (Fun Spot shout out) step up from the original. Helping bring the acting to an acceptable level are a few horror vets--Danielle Harris (you know her from the Halloween franchise, Urban Legend, and, if you're my girlfriend, Wish Upon A Star) plays Amy, the lead. Chelan Simmons (Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Final Destination 3) plays party girl Kayla, and one of my personal favorites, Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps, Freddy vs. Jason), is wonderfully over the top as Tamara, a chick obsessed with the dead and Jacob (see the picture above). This cast obviously tips us off to something about this movie that kind of breaks the slasher film mold--our victims are not the teenagers we typically see in these movies, but are instead (presumable) in their thirties, a change in the game I am all for. Kane is about what you expect in this movie, complete with a mask at times.

"Wait, I came in here for something..."

The movie does suffer from some of the shortcomings of the original, however. The story is almost as thin, and the second-rate nod to Friday The 13th is still there--directors Jen and Sylvia Soska even admitted as much. The gore is down a bit, but considering the bloodshed in the first film was largely CGI, I'm okay with that, as what we do get here is, for the most part, actual fake blood. As Jacob is made almost as invincible as Jason Vorhees, one would think that the idea was to create a franchise, but 13 years after the first movie was released, we only have two installments--I'm okay with that. See No Evil 2 is one of those rare sequels that is better than the first movie, but it didn't take much to achieve this distinction. 

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 6

See No Evil 2 Movie Trailer