Bloody Murder 2
Year: 2002
Director: Bob Spera
Written by: John Stevenson
Threat: Psychopath
Weapon of Choice: Machete
Based upon: none
IMDb page: 
Bloody Murder 2Year: 2002 Director: Bob Spera Written by: John Stevenson Threat: Psychopath Weapon of Choice: Machete Based upon: none IMDb page: |
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Bloody Murder
The tyranist's thoughts
I have never seen the first Bloody Murder movie and Rish tells me that I should be
grateful. Still, I am always hesitant to review a sequel when I have never seen the movie
before it. On the other hand, if Rish is correct about the first one, perhaps it was an advantage
for me. I thoroughly enjoyed this one.
So there's a camp and it's on a lake. There are counselors who are as randy as they
are young (Hey, I went to school with a guy named Randy Young!--Rish). And
there's a legend that a mysterious killer wanders the woods hacking the shit out of anyone
unfortunate enough to wander by.
At times a direct rip-off of the Friday the 13th films, it often feels more like a pastiche
and an incredibly good one at that. The jokes hit, the gore is good, and the plot (while not air-tight)
is serviceable. In the end, the movie is a lot of fun and could just as easily have featured Jason
as . . . uh . . . Trevor?
Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised by this one and would highly recommend it if you are a
Jason fan. Of course, it may be that devout Jason fans would find it offensive. You figure it
out.
Posted: December 27, 2004
Rish's Reviews
A couple of years ago, I worked at a video store. I had a roommate who, for a short
while, enjoyed watching horror movies with me, so I'd bring three or four home every
night and he'd pick the one he thought he could stand and we'd watch them together.
One of these (it might have been the last one we checked out) was an awful
Friday the 13th ripoff called
Bloody Murder. It was so bad,
so poorly-made, so unoriginal, that I had to kill my roommate for choosing it.
The police never found out.
Now, it's the end of 2004, and tyranist and I are together, for another short while.
Bloody Murder 2 was on the shelf, and for some reason, I thought it might be
entertaining enough to warrant a rent.
And I was right. But not in the way I expected to be. Who woulda thought that a
direct-to-video sequel of a godless direct-to-video ripoff could be so good?
It wasn't really scary, but it was fun in a retro sort of way, and competently done. It
also had nudity and sex, just like the old Slashers did (isn't it nice that the skin-free
Nineties are over?). Even the acting wasn't attrocious. The ending, though, was the
weakest part, and it was very weak, making as little sense as the otherwise-capable
plot had striven to manage.
Our girl (Katy Woodruff) was quite attractive, somehow managing to look better as
the film went on, and while no new ground was trod (in fact, this very film has been
made a dozen times over twenty years ago), I was quite glad I saw it.
And you wanna know the worst part? If they make a Bloody Murder 3, I'll grab
it off the shelf and give it a rent.
Posted: January 4, 2005
Total Skulls: 30
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| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | |
Friday the 13th |
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | |
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| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | |
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| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | |
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| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | |
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| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | |
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| Power is cut | |
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| Phone lines are cut | |
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| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | |
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| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | |
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| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | |
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| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | |
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| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | |
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| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | |
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| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | |
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| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | |
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| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | |
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| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | |
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| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | |
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| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | |
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| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? | |