See No Evil 2

As a kid, and during my teenage years, i used to watch a lot of wrestling. WWE Wrestling with Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior, The Bushwackers, the late 80´s and the early 90´s had a lot of original wrestlers. I remember some of my school friends try to do wrestling fights in the school yard. I remember especially one guy named André, who tried to do some kind of combination of Van Damme kicks and The Ultimate Warrior wrestling. He did not stand a chance to the other guy, so i had a good laugh. Nowdays i am not following WWE very much, not because i think its boring, simply because i like MMA. This is real action, with kicks and punches that really hit their victim. Speaking of WWE, did you know that the wrestling company have released several action and horror films for many years ? Yes indeed, with wrestling stars of course. Maybe some of you have seen John Cena in The Marine, or 12 Rounds ? Action films guaranteed to please wrestling lovers, with lots of weapons, and fights. I am not sure if you remember, but in 2006, WWE Studios released the horror film See No Evil. With wrestler Kane, in the leading role as slasher Jakob Goodnight, it became a small box office hit in USA. A slasher horror film, in the style of Friday The 13th, combined with other classic slashers. It was not unique, or that special in any way. So here we are, 8 years later with a unexpected sequel. Is this sequel better than the first film, or is this another sequel made that will be forgotten for an eternity ?

Amy ( Danielle Harris, Seth ( Kaj-Erik Eriksen ) and their boss Holden ( Michael Eklund ), are all working at an graveyard . They take care of new bodies, delivered to them. It is Amy´s birthday, so she is beginning to prepare herself for a night out with friends when her shift ends. Just as she is about to leave, Holden is told that there are a lot of bodies coming in, who was murdered by Jakob Goodnight ( Kane ). He is also dead, and taken to the graveyard. This means that Amy and Seth have to take care of the new bodies, and Amy can´t leave to her birthday party. What she does not know, is that Holden have planned a birthday party in the morgue for Amy, so she is surprised to see her friends Tamara ( Katherine Isabelle ), Kayla ( Chelan Simmons ), Carter ( Lee Majdoub ) and her brother Will ( Greyston Holt ) showing up. As the party starts, none of them knows that Kane is still alive, and he is not finished finding more victims.

When a sequel comes out almost 8 years later, you would hope that they really want to make it better than the first film. Thankfully it is not as awful as some of these WWE sequels have been in the past, maybe because See No Evil 2 are directed by The Soska Sisters ( Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska ). They directed the surprisingly good horror film American Mary, that became of one my personal favourite horror films of 2012. You can tell that they have tried to bring a different view in this sequel, with good looking cinematography. And i will say that Kane looks bad ass, with his new mask. The fun thing about splatter films like this, is that you dont´t need to think about the plot too much. We want to see bodies being cut open, body parts with big flesh wounds. Sadly, there is not much else to be happy about. The killings are not many, and that is a detail that should have been there. When you have a big killer like Kane, let him go loose and make some victims slaughtered. Sure, we do have some killings here, but very few and some of them are not very effective. Instead the strength of See No Evil 2 is the atmosphere, and to see Kane in action. I am also glad to see Katharine Isabelle here, who was the lead actor of American Mary, she looks fantastic. When you have seen almost everything in horror films, you can figure out what is going to happen quite early. I prefer intelligent horror films that have a great plot, with something unexpected happening when you least expect it. See No Evil 2 have nothing from that, and this makes it a pretty ordinary horror film, that fit college students better. Nothing awful, just simply a quite boring sequel. Hopefully something interesting will come along this spring that have something original. Until then, i suggest you go and rent House Of 1000 Corpses if you want to have a good time.

Rating: DD