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2.0 out of 5 stars
NOT SPECTACULAR, 29 Oct 2007
One year after the massacre at Camp Blood, Director Worth Milligan, (Garrett Clancy) wants to make a movie what happened, and manages to get original survivor Tricia Young, (Jennifer Ritchkoff) on board. With the cast, Adrienne Palmer, (Missy Rae Hansen) Vanessa, (Sonya Joy Sims) Lance, (Mark Overholt) and Todd, (Timothy Patrick) together, they head into the same woods as before, and Tricia constantly fears that the killer is still out there. As the cast and crew start disappearing, she claims the killer clown has returned, and when she's proved true, the rest of the film-makers have to fight off the killer.
The Good News: This wasn't terrible, and it did have a few good things going for it. The first is a huge improvement over the killer's mask. This one is a more demonic looking clown mask, and it looks a lot more imposing in here. That earns it a big plus, as does the killer. Far more physically threatening, this one is far, far better and does manage to get a good scare here and there. The kills in here aren't that bad, and are quite decently done. We get a couple slit throats, a person set on fire, a machete slice to the top of a person's head, and the coolest one, using a broken beer bottle to gouge out both eyes of a victim. It's far more effective than how it sounds, and it scores as the coolest scene. The film does move at a fairly fast pace, helped along mostly with the inclusion of several flashbacks, and the woods themselves do give off a mildly threatening atmosphere. This could've been a whole lot worse.
The Bad News: One of the main things that holds this one down is that the cheese that helps most films here instead hurts it. The fact that the film is cheesy here results in the fact that the gore looks terrible and is quite disastrous. Several wounds re-appear later at completely different places than where they were first struck at, it spurts out quite unrealistically, and in general it looks really terrible. The film also looks pretty bad in a couple other areas, which is another big sign of it's cheesy nature. There are many plot holes and confusing moments in here that to take time out to explain them all would be a waste, but just know that they're there and quite obvious. There's also the fact that the film contains the overly-clichéd "film-within-the-film" storyline, as it's really been done to death and can't really have anything new brought to it. It also shows off the cheesy nature even more. There's other factors which hurt this one, but those are the big ones.
The Final Verdict: There's far worse films out there, but this still has a lot of problems to fix. It is better than the first one, so it has that going for it, but the only real ones who will get much out of this will be the most ardent slasher fans or the low-budget, independent film fans.
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