Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp

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.

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...

Superior, but totally unremarkable sequel finds yet another group of youths heading for trouble when they unwisely ignore the warnings about rumored chain saw wielding serial killer Trevor Moorehouse. More blood, more guts, more sex, and more thrills then the original effort ever provided, but nothing we haven't already seen a 1000 times before. And done better at that!

This is a surprisingly effective slasher movie that's far better than the usual straight-to-video exploitation fare thanks to stylish direction and an eerie score. The movie is clearly influenced by '80s summer camp horror films like "Friday the 13th" and "The Burning," and it earns comparison with those cult classics due to an unusual respect for pace, composition, and performance. The suspense sequences are crafted with care and build to some pretty frightening payoffs, and the characters are well defined and well acted enough that we actually care about what happens to them. A creepy score helps matters along, as does expressive editing and a story that has its share of surprising twists. "Bloody Murder 2" is hardly original, but as an escapist thriller it delivers the goods.