See No Evil 2

See No Evil 2 isn't a slasher film that significantly impacts the genre or brings anything new. It's a horror film that plays with what it has and doesn't try to do anything more. It's about slaughter and escape, presented exactly in the form you expect and want. As a bonus, you get fairly tolerable characters as well. I have to say, though, the gore did disappoint me a bit because I expected a bit more from the Soska sisters. Overall, the film held up quite well, and I enjoyed it. (10/28/2014)

Finally, the much anticipated sequel to the excellent and brutal slasher film has been released, but unfortunately, as they say about sequels that they tend to be worse, See No Evil 2 only confirms it. The film was greatly hurt by the fact that the director is not a man, but two women, which doesn't bode well. A significant step backwards compared to the first one. I consider the first installment to be the most brutal, dirty and insane slasher/survival ride that has been filmed to date, but the second one holds back too much. The morgue setting is a very attractive location, but its potential was not fully exploited. Jacob is still an uncontrollable and unstoppable killing machine, but why on earth is he using his hands, when he has thousands of killing tools at his disposal from knives, saws to scalpels? This was the biggest stumbling block for me. Most deaths are either out of frame or just strangled and thus crap, which I find too uninventive as murder these days. Only two gore scenes are interesting, but that's not enough, especially when in the first one there were more than twenty. Hopefully Alexandre Aja or another butcher will take over next time. I hate the Soska sisters from now on. (10/10/2014)

I was looking forward to another slaughter with Kane and I am definitely not disappointed. The film ticks along nicely and surprisingly doesn't have too many boring passages. There are a few decent gore scenes here, but it must be said that I expected more blood, cutting, and torture from the Soska Sisters. The most entertaining for me was the overacting Katharine Isabelle, whose character was beautifully perverse and crazy, in this performance Katharine is simply irresistible. Throughout, I was more or less satisfied with what was served to me and I enjoyed it, but then came the ending, which really kicked my satisfaction in the balls. I still can't understand what the hell that was supposed to mean?! I really didn't expect such a rushed ending after a solid course, so I have to go down by one star in the rating than I originally intended. Still, I hope that Kane won't give up on it and we will at least see him break bones, break down doors, and gouge eyes out once more. (05/19/2018)