A young man named Mike
Hawthorne (Gordon Currie) is troubled by
his childhood past as he experienced his
Mom being murdered by his father named
Stephen (Garvin Cross) and then committed
suicide so he still has his fears.
Well Mike along with his girlfriend Peg
(Stacy Grant) travels to his grandparents
farm for a Halloween party which he
invites his friends wherein they will all
dress up as their innermost fears along
with a native indian named Crow (Byron
Chief-Moon) where they would perform an
ancient Indian celebration using the
carved wooden dummy Morty that would
eliminate their fears forever.
Suddenly, Crow is killed by a horse in
which he feared the most of which was
brought on by Morty as something went
wrong and then Morty disguises himself as
Stephen and then starts killing off
Mike's friends one by one making their
worst fears come true.
Mike must overcome his fears to put a
stop to Morty with the help of Peg but
however Morty feeds on his fear which
makes Mike hesitant.
Another fun flick
as it delivers nice chemistry to take
place close to Halloween but it's not as
dark and creepy.
It does show some familiar cast members
from known cult horror flicks with some
great settings in the woods like in the
first film as this time it was filmed in
my local area of Vancouver, BC.
Some of the lines with Morty seemed a
little corny though as at times it
doesn't seem to fit and the plot loses
Morty's intimidation.
The acting is
quite good as Gordon Currie
offers a nice deliverance with his
character as a disturbed one about his
past as he offers plenty of energy and
aggression to his part in the film.
Stacy Grant was wonderful as his
nice and caring girlfriend in the film as
she delivers good lines and a perfect
character to her part to top it all off.
Most of the other main actors didn't
stand out too well but the supporting
actors seemed to have been more
remembered. Let's see here....
Oh yes, there's Betsy Palmer as
we get to see her play a sane character
this time in which we all remember her as
Mrs. Voorhees in Friday the 13th.
She was marvellous and will always remain
a terrific character actress.
Larry
Pennell was another good one playing
a bitter old man in the film bringing his
part across wonderfully.
John Paul
Fedele has nice evil expression as
Morty and really brought his lines across
coldly and menacingly.
Garvin Cross is terrific as a maniac
in the film and has just the perfect
looks for the part too.
Byron Chief-Moon brought a perfect
seriousness to his role as the native in
the film with his idea for the ceremony
as his part instantly came to life for
the film.
A rattlesnake's
head is chopped off
A woman's body parts and intestines are
stuffed in a box but it looks slightly
fake
Chris Angel seems
to take the direction this time but he
doesn't make it convincingly scary.
Nevertheless he does a fine job with it.
There's a nice prologue that involves
both supporting cast members Ingrid
Tesch and Riley Newport as
mother and child driving in a car on a
dark stormy night with good camera shots
on them cruising along.
There is a nice shot on supporting actor Garvin
Cross acting menacing with an axe in
the woods and whacking bit part actress Jody
Thompson with great shocked
expressions by Tesch while she's
watching this.
There is a nice warming welcome by Betsy
Palmer towards Gordon Currie
as grandmother and grandchild which looks
fairly descent.
We spot a good dialogue with Stacy
Grant approaching Currie near
a tombstone trying to talk to him and Currie
acting jittery discussing his past on
what happened to his mother as well as a
nice aggressive reaction by him whacking
a tombstone with a stick.
A good shot on Currie slowly placing a
wooden mask on his face and then taking
it off with a great violent reaction on
him and punching supporting actor John
Paul Fedele as the wooden dummy Morty
off his chair to the ground.
We have a good dialogue between Byron
Chief-Moon and Currie discussing
about their fears and Morty as the
setting is still and serious. Larry
Pennell had perfect timing acting
nasty towards Chief-Moon and
giving him idle threats not to tell any
tales about Morty to his grandson.
A good shot on Chief-Moon being
knocked down with the camera zooming in
on him and a shot up on a horse. A good
blocking scene with the horses hoof
kicking his head but the effects looked
poor.
There's perfect camera shots on Brendan
Beiser and Rachel Hayward walking
along outside near a lake having a
dialogue.
There's nice friendly reactions on the
cast wearing their costumes based on
their fears at the ceremony.
A good speech by Palmer when she
explains to Currie that things
will be fine after a dead body is
discovered which leaves you a creepy
impression. Currie knew how to
spin around and act dizzy by passing out
after this incident.
Good reactions on supporting actor Fedele
when he attacks his victims using
jokes in a near Freddy Krueger type
fashion.
There's a great scene between Fedele
and Currie in the barn attic
with Currie swearing him out as
well as Currie acting nervous
when he spots a hallucination on Cross
approaching him.
A good shot on Larry Pennel in
the barn attic with rats covering over
him which looks spooky.
Currie does well by holding a chair
towards Grant when approaching
him wondering if she's Morty or not as it
is mind twisting making you wonder if
it's one of Morty's tricks.
We have a perfect
chillling synthesizer playing from the
opening and ending credits almost
sounding Puppet Master
like. Some odd guitar strumming and
indian whistling type sounds with the odd
piano playing too.
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