Trying to get back to normal following the previous encounter, a woman who escaped the clutches of the killer clown tires of hearing others disbelieving her story and sets out with some friends to put an end to the killer's rampage once and for all.
This was an okay if more underwhelming follow-up to the previous entry in the series. When this one works nicely is due to the return of the storyline bringing her back to the camp. The first half, generating all the interludes and flashbacks to showcase the earlier events to build her psychosis and struggles that bring her back to the woods, once again provides enough of a grounding for a serviceable setup. The final straw, the therapist's office visit which spurs the visit to the woods for the final confrontation, is what sets the film going with the somewhat cheesy confrontation in the woods with the killer. This offers up the best gore and action here which is what makes for the film's best elements. There are some issues to be had here. One of the main problems is the generally plodding pace that carries on throughout the first half. This one takes longer than it should to get to the killer stalking in the woods as we get several montages involving her going through the motions of getting better, day-by-day in the care of her friends and family that have their place yet feel rather obvious in their padding. That could even more obviously be said of the enormous chunk of the film taken up by her watching the various horror films on TV, giving us a large swath of time consumed by stock footage of other films rather than the one we're watching which is a problem. The other issue here is the fact that all of this padding gives the film so little actual time with the killer that it doesn't even register much in terms of a slasher. Although most of the padded footage comes in the form of action involving the creature feature and slasher films on television she watches or the recollections of what happened to her friends running into the killer clown, it's not new footage of her returning to the woods and being stalked. Since the decision to go find him is so late in the film, this doesn't leave the chance for much of a confrontation scene here even if it is quite fun. Combined with the obvious low-budget on display, these here hold this one down.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, and Nudity.
