Review of See No Evil 2 (2014) by Brett H — 01 Dec 2014

Incredibly weak follow-up to an already trashy slasher that is in better hands on the directing front, but really drops the ball in the slashing department and this thing was barely R-rated. The setting in a morgue was very cool and you don't see that very often, but it also poses the problem that there were infinite ways to escape and the characters are too stupid to do so.

A big problem this has is there's no explanation for how the killer comes back to life, we're just supposed to role with it that he's basically a clone of Jason Voorhees which doesn't work at all because his over-the-top death in the first film cemented him as being dead-as-a-doornail.

The acting and cinematography is much better than the first without all the crappy ADD-editing and actual steady-cam shots, and the additions of scream-queens, Danielle Harris and Katharine Isabelle definitely help.

But the unforgivable "evil" this film commits is having some of the lamest and mostly off-screen kills throughout when you're expecting a real bloodbath from this type of film. The ending was actually going well, and the way they took care of the killer was disgusting and awesome, and then they pull the rug out at the last minute and make one of the most aggravating endings I've seen in ages.

I don't know why it's so hard for studios to give horror fans what they want, but this is a prime example of how to piss people like me off with lackluster filmmaking and tame kills.