Director: Ken 'Ace' Brewer
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
After being revived from the dead, the vicious killer starts a new rampage in the same public park as before, slaughtering all he comes across, forcing the authorities and a team of bounty hunters looking to score a bounty for his capture to battle each other to stop the carnage.
Review:
This was a fairly fun and enjoyable enough indie sequel. Among the better features of this one comes from the solid and simplistic setup, where it manages to effectively and efficiently spell out what’s going on and get right to the point. Getting the killer revived and resurrected in the first few minutes here, with the brother conducting the voodoo spell to bring him back, the film then brings in the main selling point with the various teams of bounty hunters descending on the park to try to collect a bounty reward for his capture, sending everyone out to go look for him. The different scenes here cut back and forth to the various groups and their own reasons for conducting the search in the woods for him or complaining about their lack of success, which helps to give everything a nice mix of cheesy setups and motivations for what they’re doing out there as we get to know them.
This, in turn, brings about the never-ending slew of ambush sequences involving the killer coming across the strangers and taking them out in quick fashion. The simple, repetitive nature of the story offers a chance for everything to come together in a formulaic manner, as individuals from the various groups split off from the herd and come into contact with one of the killers, who then kills them off in a quick, shocking manner. The kills are kept just as simple as the storyline, where they’re repeatedly slashed with a machete, stabbed, or bashed with a giant mallet so it won’t win out on originality, but it’s more about the quantity here as the structure of this one providing endless moments of the group running into the vicious killers and getting taken out in comically ineffective means offers some great fun at points.
What makes it all work, even if it’s such a break from reality to accomplish everything, is the inherent stupidity necessary to pull off the sequence in question. As everyone who stumbles across the killer does so by finding the killer standing in the middle of the trail or spotting them off in the distance and heading off to approach him, this allows everyone to get involved one at a time to then get killed off in a brief, hardly interesting fight which moves this along yet also showcases the kind of disbelief-sapping logic that keeps the film rolling. This might be somewhat difficult to get a handle on with the same formula repeated for every encounter, even though some of them genuinely work well to showcase the stupidity of the chosen hunters, as that can easily wear thin after a while. Much like the apparent and obvious low budget on display here, these are what bring this one down slightly.
Overview: ***.5/5
A fun one-note indie slasher, there’s enough to like here that this one comes off rather well, so long as many of the limitations and drawbacks featured here are taken into account. Those who are capable of following along in this style, who enjoy this style of indie effort in general, or who are fans of the creative crew will have a lot to like, while those turned off by these features should heed caution.
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