Convinced
that his sister Karen White has been a
victim of a brutal murderer Ben (Reb
Brown) who is an out of town law officer
tries to find this killer.
He
then meets up with an expert on occults
named Stefan Crosscoe (Christopher Lee)
as he tells him that Karen was a victim
to a werewolf cult after showing him a
tape of what happened to her while being
broadcasted on the 6'o Clock news.
From
there he travels with Crosscoe and
Karen's best friend Jenny Templeton
(Annie McEnroe) to the dark country of
Transylvannia where Karen was brought for
a holiday and so they can track down
their leader and put an end to the
werewolf cult.
However,
Karen is reincarnated into a lustful
leader of the pack this time named Stirba
(Sybil Danning) as she has deadly plans
for Jenny while they arrive there and
hunt down her temple.
This film seemed
way too corny and cheesy to believe this
was a sequel to the first film until I
watched it more to know it does take off
where the first one eneded off but it
looks insulting regardless.
Yet, this film is fun to watch and a nice
cheesy 80's horror flick.
Good to watch close to Halloween. The
dialogue is bad in the film but it still
seems to be watchable.
The acting is
nowhere as well performed like in the
first film with a cast of b-film
celebrities.
Christopher Lee who plays a
werewolf slayer in the film seems to
deliver his part not too bad but is a
little rough. However, he shows great
seriousness to his character.
Annie McEnroe was the worst
actress in this film as she should not
have been cast at all.
Reb Brown stands out well, tries
to perform well but at times doesn't have
the knack to his character.
Marsha A. Hunt as a mysterious
werewolf seems to look good with her role
and does a fairly descent job but
sometimes she tried too hard.
Sybil Danning was one of the
best cast members in this film as she
perfomrs lustingly evil as the head of
the werewolf cult. She really knew her
stuff.
Marsha A. Hunt
has her top torn off showing her full
breasts as well as Sybil Danning's
during a seduction scene in a temple.
There is a brief breast shot in the
temple during a group make out scene.
A punk's hand is
chomped off.
There's some bloody gunshots and
stabbings
A midget's eyes explode
A creature of some sort tears some flesh
off a priests face as well as plucking
his eyes out.
A head is decapitated
Philippe Mora
is not too convincing with his work on
this sequel and it took me a while to
figure out that this one was based after
the first one.
The funeral scene was too rusty and corny
too with the dialogues between Annie
McEnroe and Reb Brown afterwards
in the forestry area.
However he seems to show a nice
adventurous scene that involves
supporting actress Marsha A. Hunt
leading the actors who play street punks
to an abandoned building only to be
slaughtered by a werewolf as the scenery
looks good with the werewolf effects.
However, it lacks again when there is a
dialogue sequence with Christopher
Lee talking to actors McEnroe
and Brown of what happened
before which he shows a tape of the last
ending footage of the first one buit it
made the first film a little cheesy like
this one. Still it was fun to watch it
but not meant to be taken seriously
though.
We see great shots on Brown and McEnroe
in the deep dark woods as well as the
funeral church when Brown acts
tough shooting any werewolves that
attack.
Lee shows descent menacing
actions towards a small time actor who
played a werewolf demading to know where
their leader is.
Mora has a perfect setting in a
temple with cast members and extra's
chanting.
There's also a nice lustful scene that
involves Sybil Danning, Judd
Omen and Hunt when they
transform into werewolves as well during
this time. It is very close for making up
the cheesiness to this film and meeting
up to the original.
There's also good shots on the festivals
happening in the small town with people
dancing and a puppet act of a werewolf.
Danning really stood out dressed
in leather at the temple near a bonfire
when she starts casting a spell of chants
and in the woods the werewolves get into
a fury and other intense moments happen.
We see nice shots of people transforming
into werewolves too.
When Danning's character tells
her people who her brother is it looked
good, however, when Hunt behaves
monstrous it looked too acted out.
There's a great chasing scene that
involves both Lee and Brown.
The most effective direction was with Lee
and Danning together close
to the ending as it looks gothically
powerful.
Stephen A. Parsons does
a terrific job composing the music for
the film as it is very 80's like what
you'd see in a Return of the
Living Dead or A
Nightmare on Elm Street type of
film..
We also get a groovy
soundtrack by the punk rock group Babel
as they appear onstage in the film
many times.
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