Director: Jeremy Chi-Hang Au
Year: 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: Easter Killing 2
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Gathering at a remote house, a group of friends thinking they're holding a special easter celebration only to learn the whole thing was a ruse by a strange killer to lure them together so that they could unravel the truth about a death they caused a year ago and must try to stop the killer after them.
Review:
This was a problematic follow-up that does have some likable factors. Among the better features here is the ability to continue the focus that the original established in using the group’s past as a motive for launching the rampage. Using pretty much the same setup involving the friends who are all called out to a remote house in the countryside trying to put a dark secret from their past behind them and enjoy the holiday season only to find themselves in a bunny mask turning the whole thing into a way of bringing that to light, there’s a fun sense of familiarity and cohesion between the two entries. With their arrival at the location turning this into a series of interrogations and conversations about what they’ve been brought together and what’s going on, the clues about what happened to their friend serves the film nicely as it brings about the way everything comes together with the revelations about their friend and the purpose of the killer stalking them that displays quite a lot of intriguing elements about making it feel genuinely connect to the original in how it all comes together. These are enough to make this one enjoyable enough.
There are some big issues keeping this down. The main factor to be had with this one is the lethargic and draining pace that comes about as a result of this kind of investigation into what happened, as nothing happens for long periods. Focusing more on the group sitting around trying to uncover what happened from the threatening messages that spur a series of flashbacks to talk about what happened, it ends up feeling incredibly slow-going to the point of making the few intrusions to kill someone off feel underwhelming and just not that interesting. On top of that, the mystery investigation and eventual reveal that goes on here turns the group into such an unlikable lot that it’s not worth being around them much anyway, especially when the revenge nature of everything is brought about. The other issue here is the sense of lacking intensity in the kill scenes where it never manages to go for the throat when it should’ve as there’s such a low body-count it doesn’t have the chance to feature anything, and when it does they’re so lame and lackluster it stands out quite heavily with everything bringing this down overall.
Overview: *.5/5
An underwhelming and not that interesting follow-up, this one has some likable factors but more than enough flaws that are enough to keep this one down with how damaging they are. Give it a shot mainly if you're a fan of the style presented here or the creative crew, while most others out there won’t have much to like and should heed caution with it.
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