Night of a Thousand Screams 2 (2003) (V)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Shawnee McCormack

Writer:

Shawnee McCormack (writer)

Release Date:

28 October 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

The bloodbath continues...

Plot:

Maggie, the only survivor from the bloodbath is found unconscious in the woods by a group of campers who innocently take her back to the house where it ALL happened!!! |

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Gunplay | Witchcraft | Zombie | Male Nudity

Cast

Kimberly Hillman	...	Carol
Marie Wilson	...	Kassie
Reuben Rox	...	Oscar
Norma Sherwood	...	Diane
Daniel Atwood	...	Ed
Christopher Denton	...	Dale
Eileen North	...	Nora
Candice Sharp	...	Maggie
John Wilkes	...	Jimmy
Jack Adkins	...	Zombie
Tom Berry	...	Zombie
Victoria Crews	...	Zombie
Rodney Fowler	...	Zombie
Angie Hutchinson	...	Zombie
Stephen Martin	...	Zombie

Runtime:

USA:89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Certification:

USA:R (Violence) (Adult language) | USA:Unrated (Violence) (Adult language) (sexual references/scenes)

Filming Locations:

Eureka, California, USA

Movie Connections:

Follows Night of a Thousand Screams (2001)

Actually better than the original

This sequel is so way better than the original, thanks to a more professional cast, crazy editing and cool camera work. This picks up exactly where part 1 left off, with survivor (Sharp) running for dear life in the dark woods. She bumps into a tree and knocks herself down. The next day, four campers (Atwood, North, Rox and Wilson) find her covered in blood. Not having any means of calling for help, they decide to take her with them, she never fully wakes up, only opens her eyes briefly every now and then, apparently too confused or traumatized for last nights events. As they walk in the woods, we meet a father and son (Denton and Wilkes) hunting deer, providing our heroes with guns. We also meet a lovely young woman (Sherwood) who happens to be a cop investigating the disappearance of her parents a few years back in the area.

Eventually the campers find the witch's (Hillman)house, one the girls apparently lost her pocket purse in the woods insisting on going back, one of the man goes with her and they aren't seen for a while. Then as the other two campers are about to knock on the door, our survivor wakes up, after realizing she's back to the place she was trying to get away from, begins freaking out, inside the house the witch (it is established in the original that this woman practices witchcraft) hears her and comes out, the campers try to calm down the screaming girl, who flees the moment she sees the witch.

Soon the witch kills the two campers after inviting them in, by now its getting dark outside and after some chanting and blood drinking the dead come out of the ground. Meanwhile the father and son also nearby, bump into the two other campers who found the lost purse and were on their way back to the house(here is where the crazy editing begins).

They exchange a few words and before you can say zombie, the dead attack them killing the son, the father goes gun happy shooting every undead on sight providing some splashy bloody effects. The cop being nearby hears the shooting and of course has to go check things out.

In the same time in the woods, survivor girl gets lost and is eaten by a couple of the undead, this made me angry, I was rooting for her.

After some serious undead ass kicking, our four remaining heroes and heroines make their way to the house, where once inside the witch proceeds to kill the father, the cop shoots the witch, the campers find their dead friends bodies mutilated, find the witch's book and hide in one of the rooms, the cop runs out of bullets, witch kicks her ass, they struggle, witch wins, goes looking for campers, campers kick the crap out of witch, get out of house, fight off some zombies in the woods, manage to get back to their car. There they warn a woman not to go to the woods, she does not listen and gets eaten alive.

Back at the house woman cop still alive, but weak manages to chop off the witch's head, then burns house down, as she walks away she sees all the undead on the ground.

Unlike the dreadful original, this was done on video,has less graphic mayhem effects and unfortunately has no nudity, but it is a lot of fun, the zombies are better looking, the fight scenes are well choreographed and the cast was certainly good.