Director: Warren Speed, Chris Greenwood
Year: 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: Zombie Women of Satan 2
Genre: Zombie; Horror/Comedy
Plot:
Several years after his rise to fame, the perverted clown finds himself out of money and has to take a job at a lush country estate for a party hosted by a massive fan, but when he starts to notice that events are repeating themselves with the zombie virus infecting the guests he tries to protect them and get away alive.
Review:
This was quite an enjoyable and hilarious zombie effort. Among the better elements featured here is the somewhat personable comedy that will definitely be an individual’s preference. The idea of the perverted, degenerate clown who swears constantly, attempts to sexually molest anything female, and acts like a complete deviant will not be a complete win for the comedy but the rest of the film’s comedic touches are quite hilarious. The wacky family and their shenanigans are highly enjoyable, from the madcap dialog and maniacal behavioral touches, the stupidity for the sake of appearing like children for the sake of a joke and just generally acting aloof in a silly manner about their plans has a fun and silly air about it. Combined with the wacky plan to stop him, the hilarious insults and comebacks, and the continued sexual deviancy that’s all played for laughs, the film’s got some great humorous touches throughout here.
As well, when the film goes for the recreation tactics there’s tons of fun with the over-the-top zombie attacks and confrontations throughout the film. Starting off with the rather comical infection where they get all the girls infected to start chasing after him and the discovery of these creatures, the resulting chase through the party where all the other guests are partying unaware until they get ambushed and devoured by the zombie swarm in several graphic confrontations. The escape and resulting confrontations around the house grounds feature a lot of fun with the repeat of the wacky home-made weapons of the first one which is mixed nicely with the deviancy towards the topless zombies and over-the-top gore making for quite a fun time throughout here. As these feature enough practical effects and make-up on the zombies to be quite impressive, overall these hold the film up for the most part.
That said, there are some big flaws in the film. The main issue is the aforementioned comedy which may not be quite humorous to all out there, especially those who don’t find his antics funny. That it’s all based mostly on sexually assaulting women for a lark or his anticipation at it happening for laughs when dealing with the main guy is not always funny and oftentimes outright insulting showing this aspect more prominently than the original. It’s the exact definition of an individual’s preference who will definitely be turned off by something featured within here and considering the amount of time featured here with that is a big problem if the comedy won’t work for all. The other problem is the build-up to the zombie outbreak where it focuses quite heavily on the setup and comedy to the point where the outbreak occurs too late to be of some interest to all the excess happening instead of the horror elements. This is the biggest drawback holding it back alongside the comedy issue.
Overview: ***/5
A highly entertaining follow-up effort to the original, that it follows a lot of the same features from that one keeping it as a strong if slightly repetitive version of that film. Those who are fine with these factors, enjoyed the original, or are fans of the creative crew will have a lot to like here while most others out there turned off by the drawbacks should heed caution.
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