Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp

BLOODY MURDER 2: CLOSING CAMP is not just a sequel to the inferior original. It's also a sort of neo-slasher take on / near-parody of FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2. It's got the remote camp setting, the gaggle of hormonally-driven victims, and the masked murderer.

However, this movie's greatest strength is Tiffany Shepis, who gets a lot of screen time and who's character, Angela is actually interesting. Of course, it's not long before she's showing off her lovely birthday suit which only adds to the wonderment.

Gorehounds should be in ecstasy with this movie, since the gushy red stuff flows freely and the body count is high...

The infamous red-herring Trevor Moorehouse returns for round 2 with "Bloody Murder 2," a beefed up, sexed up sequel to the generally cheesy direct-to-video original. Everything you hated about (or laughed about) the original "Bloody Murder" is rectified here. Whereas the first one had zero gore, this one packs on the red stuff, especially with the first murder, which had me squirming in my seat. There is also an abundance of sex & nudity in general (props to Tiffany Shepis) that help enhance the enjoyment of the movie (don't feel guilty -- these flicks are pretty superficial to begin with). Heck, even the acting is better -- although I wouldn't go as far as to say it was good, just an improvement. The characters may have been a bit shallow, but at least they had some sort of definition. The story revolves around a group of camp-counselors closing up camp and celebrating. Tracy, one of the counselors, is the sister of one of the victims from the original, and her motives for returning are somewhat vague. Just like in the original, people start dropping off one by one, and yet the counselors still feel obliged to stick around and finish their work. The ending is somewhat sketchy and cliched, but overall, "Bloody Murder 2" is a triumph over the original, which was basically just a joke.

7/10

I enjoyed this movie as a slasher not top rate movie film. There where however a few details that bugged me a bit. When Tracy is taking the shower you notice that she never took her earrings out. I don't know to much about jewelry as have never had earrings but I kind of assume that when you take a shower you would take them out? One other area was after they saw all these killings the girls still decided to split up. Also after one death had just been confirmed if I was the one running camp knowing what had previously happend I would immediately close the rest of the camp not wait around until more problems happend. Overall this is a decent movie but not one I will watch more than once.

I did not particularly like the first Bloody Murder film. I rented this hoping maybe it would be an improvement, and it was! The first 15 minutes of Bloody Murder 2 are a little lame, but it gets much better as the plot progresses and has quite a few plot twists. It's still no Friday The 13th (at least the first 8), but it's better than the average horror films of recent memory.

I also liked the fact that they used a HORROR MUSIC SCORE instead of that lame happy pop music junk that seems to be in every mainstream horror film lately. That really ruins the essence of a what a horror film should be, and hopefully the pop music fad in horror is dying off.

Bloody Murder 2 won't win any awards, but it's a well done little B-slasher film.

This second part is how producers could shown that they made a big mistake by getting actors who couldn't act, or directors who couldn't direct. They learned from that. This is part two and much much better than part one. It starts of with a dream, you are immediately in the movie. When the killer appears they only made one mistake with the chainsaw. Watch close when you see it penetrating Jason, you could easily see the mistake, anyway, I thought, o no, not again a bad movie. But then we get to learn the persons, this time they could act, they are less shameless, the girls I mean, than in the first part where they wear underwear that made you go aaaaaaaaaarghhhhhh. The score is better, editing is better, effects are better, there is more blood and more gore in it, decapitations, mutilations, full frontal nudity, first person views, it got all the ingredients to make it a good slasher. And there are a few plots in it that you couldn't suspect. For a low budget one it is surely watchable. Unavailable here in Europe, you really have to buy it in Australia like I did, maybe in the states. One of the franchises that is better then the first part, buy it.