SEE NO EVIL 2 is a belated follow-up to the original WWE-produced movie in which Glenn Jacobs, a hulking, bald-headed wrestler, went around murdering teenagers and stealing their eyeballs. This low budget sequel is set in a morgue, in which Jacobs' corpse springs back to life to kill another group of partying teens. The film has some supernatural touches but is generally another derivative slasher.
The main problem I had with this film was the direction; all of the action takes place in the dark, meaning you'll have to squint in order to figure out what's going on. The gory murder sequences are entirely predictable and there's not really any genuine menace build up along the way. The only fun comes from spotting a pair of modern-day scream queens in the cast. Danielle Harris is a feisty heroine while the underrated Katharine Isabelle plays a sexy victim whose seductive antics would make any red-blooded male rise from the dead.
See No Evil 2
2014
Action / Horror / Thriller
See No Evil 2
2014
Action / Horror / Thriller
Keywords: woman directorsequelslasher
Plot summary
A group of friends pays a late-night visit to the city morgue to surprise Amy (Harris) on her birthday. But the surprise is on them when the one-eyed corpse of brutal psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Jacobs) unexpectedly rises from a cold sub-basement slab. Their wild party quickly turns into a terrifying slay-fest as the sadistic mass-murderer resumes his savage rampage complete with hooks, surgical knives and power saws.
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More of the same, if you can make out what's going on
DO WE REALLY WANT TO SAVE THIS GUY?
I didn't think the first one was that good to warrant a sequel. Jacob (Glenn Jacobs) because "Jason" might bring a lawsuit is our killer who died at the end of the first film, but didn't. Like Jason, he comes back to life, wears a mask, is huge and kills kids who are sinners.
The setting is the city morgue as Seth (Kaj-Erik Eriksen) and Amy (Danielle Harris) work the graveyard shift on her birthday. Bodies are brought to the morgue from the end of the first feature, including the killer. Amy is given a surprise birthday party, because killing just a few people and a guy in a wheel chair has been done before and better. Oh where are the chainsaws when you need one.
This is another me-too slasher attempting to remake another Friday the 13th series.
Parental Guide: No f-bombs or nudity. Sex scene and all that bloody stuff.
Everyone's got to eat...
...even alternative lifestyle, fetish obsessed identical twins, apparently. The Soska Twins return for their first feature since their cult rape/revenge film American Mary. Why they were tapped to do a sequel to the WWE's franchise non-starter See No Evil, why they accepted, and why the movie is even being made 8 years after the original is anybody's guess. But it exists and I was actually psyched to see it, considering American Mary was interesting and unusual enough to be memorable, I actually kind of liked the first movie, and this one stars two of the great Scream Queens of our time, Danielle Harris (Halloween franchise, Hatchet franchise) and Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps franchise, Freddy vs. Jason, Hannibal the series),Suffice to say, I was sorely disappointed.
This is a lousy, slapped together sequel with nothing distinguishable about it. It occurs the night after the original movie's massacre as a pretty, young morgue attendant (Danielle Harris) is forced to work through her birthday to clean up all the bodies fanatically religious serial killer Jacob Goodnight (Kane) left in his wake before apparently being killed himself. She has his body, too. And when her friends decide to bring the party her to her, sneaking into the morgue after hours, one party goer (Katharine Isabelle),a drunken slut with a death fetish, sneaks off to check out Jacob's body.
Unfortunately, Jacob is apparently just as hard to kill as Jason Voorhees and equally good at playing possum. He wakes up, and he kills people. And that's it.
There's nothing much to See No Evil 2, the characters are poorly written, the acting is just okay, and the kills are generic, and not all that gory, nowhere near the level of the original. Danielle Harris has a fair amount of screen time, a nice switch from the glorified cameos she's been getting lately. Katharine Isabelle, on the other hand, only has a supporting role after playing the lead in American Mary and she does the sort of cheesy overacting she usually does when she knows the material she's been given is terrible.
See No Evil 2 makes a lot of mistakes. One of the more interesting part the first movie was that Kane looked like a troll made flesh, a towering, monster of a man killing people, usually by turning their own sins against them. Not so here. He wears a mask now, poor move that makes the movie more clichéd, and the kills are interchangeable and unimaginative. It's difficult predicting who will die and when, but that hardly matters because none of the characters are remotely interesting.
See No Evil 2 is so bad it not only kills the hopes for a See No Evil franchise but also seriously hurts anyone's hope that the Soska Twins will be horror's next big thing. This cheap looking, weak horror sequel is bad and was made by people that either didn't care or didn't know how to make a good movie.