Now that was a chore to sit through.
"I'm finally free. Dr Love and Natalie set me free. Now I must try on my stockings. To prove to myself one last time that I am free".
What?!
Now that was unbelievably bad and quite a long 75 minutes. New and recycled footage comes together in this shoddy, patched-up second sequel. Why did I bother, well it was there... on the same disc of the original film. Over half of the film is filled with archive footage from "THE BOOGEY MAN", as a disturbed woman (Anne) commentates, or panics over the reused scenes. Literally she goes about explaining what's happening in those scenes in every detail... every detail?!
These sequences play as visions, including new footage of the faceless man (supernatural killer in the mirror wearing a stocking over his head) haunting her mind, which we learn are actually distressing premonitions. In these episodes for some reason, she keeps referring to the Lacey character (Suzanna Love) as Natalie (?!). At first I thought I was hearing things... not the case.
How the film connects all of this jumbled commotion is nonsensically dull and illogically stupid. When it's not focusing on the muted original inserts, then there's the new footage, erratically edited with wannabe artsy flashes. After a little story progression, amateurish in execution, but it's there, ultimately it settles on Annie and her therapist monotonously discussing what she saw, sometimes during her visions (where at one stage she lies naked on a mirror?!), or simply afterwards. In those moments, I couldn't help but be hypnotized by the therapist's thick, ungroomed eyebrows. They were that distracting. Well, at something managed to keep my attention.
One star for the audioless recycled film footage and of course those eyebrows.
What?!
Now that was unbelievably bad and quite a long 75 minutes. New and recycled footage comes together in this shoddy, patched-up second sequel. Why did I bother, well it was there... on the same disc of the original film. Over half of the film is filled with archive footage from "THE BOOGEY MAN", as a disturbed woman (Anne) commentates, or panics over the reused scenes. Literally she goes about explaining what's happening in those scenes in every detail... every detail?!
These sequences play as visions, including new footage of the faceless man (supernatural killer in the mirror wearing a stocking over his head) haunting her mind, which we learn are actually distressing premonitions. In these episodes for some reason, she keeps referring to the Lacey character (Suzanna Love) as Natalie (?!). At first I thought I was hearing things... not the case.
How the film connects all of this jumbled commotion is nonsensically dull and illogically stupid. When it's not focusing on the muted original inserts, then there's the new footage, erratically edited with wannabe artsy flashes. After a little story progression, amateurish in execution, but it's there, ultimately it settles on Annie and her therapist monotonously discussing what she saw, sometimes during her visions (where at one stage she lies naked on a mirror?!), or simply afterwards. In those moments, I couldn't help but be hypnotized by the therapist's thick, ungroomed eyebrows. They were that distracting. Well, at something managed to keep my attention.
One star for the audioless recycled film footage and of course those eyebrows.
- lost-in-limbo
- 18. Feb. 2019