Sic Coyote

I just saw this on the big screen at the Leeds Day of the Dead horror marathon. I thought this film was very compelling, I was a little worried when they said it was only in 12 shots and previously we'd had to sit through a movie done in '1' shot which was dire (The Silent House). Then they said it was from the same company that made Rec(edit: that's wrong I don't know what they were talking about there's no connection). which perked me up as those were great. If I had known the director was the person who had previously helmed the short-movie 'I'll See You In My Dreams' I would not be worried at all because that movie is a classic. Anyway onto this movie, as it says in the plot summary a group of three men dressed in black with balaclavas storm a house at night and take the family hostage. What follows is a very tense shocker which will keep you on edge till the end.

There are great films, there are run-of-the-mill films, there are bad films and then there films just so unique that they have to be seen, this is one of those movies.

The movie starts off with Ricky, the brother of the killer from the first film (who didn't actually witness most of the stuff in the movie) telling the story of the first movie to a psychologist in a mental institution through a series of flashbacks of footage from the first film. This actually works as a kind of trimmed down 'best bits' of the first film and lasts for about 35 minutes. Intercut with new footage of the brother with his wild eyebrows and very expressive voice.

We then move on past the first film, but still in the past showing the history of Ricky as a young man. This leads to plenty of killing, all gloriously over-acted especially when he gets into the suburbs.

During this segment they even manage to cram more footage from the first movie in by having them go see the film at the cinema in a scene that is as funny as it is stupid.

If you've recently seen the first film then the first half hour could be a bit of a bore but this is certainly one of those films that's so bad that it's really good fun.

And when you find out that what they were originally asked to do was to just edit the first film differently and call it a sequel. You have to commend what they achieved.

Eric Freeman's performance as Ricky really makes this film a total hoot! (though you can't ignore it's general badness, which is why I gave it five)