Director: Larry Cohen
Year: 1978
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Evil Kids
Plot:
Determined to prevent another incident, the group who battled the creatures previously spring into action when reports surface of another potential killer baby being born and bring it to an isolated study center, only for one to escape, which makes them try to track it down and kill it.
Review:
This was quite a dull and unnecessary sequel. One of the few things that works here is the fact that the creatures are made a focal point for a much longer period of time than what happened previously. Given more of an emphasis for being there in the area this time around, with the majority of the first half consisting of them getting the information out of the group and what their intentions are which carries into the need for the security at the hospital for the birth of the creature and the resulting chaos afterward.
Consisting of the abduction and eventual hostage part in the truck, where it really gets even bigger with the incidents in the back part of the truck, this here is a fine start to things, which is later played off nicely in the later half where the creatures are loose in suburbia and have plenty of enjoyable encounters between the creatures and the swarm hunting them down. As this provides the action with some decent gore effects, these are what hold this one up despite its rather large flaws.
A lot of the film's problems stem from the same issue that befell the original in that there's just not a whole lot of interesting things going on here. Taking the guise of a loose remake where this starts off with the creatures' birth and the eventual escape from the hospital, only this time it takes far longer to get to the point of the story, which here makes no sense at all. The point of keeping mutant, bloodthirsty, deformed freaks alive and healthy in the manner attempted here is not only colossally irresponsible but also moronic by keeping known threats to humanity alive.
The fact that we don't really get much of anything about their point in conducting the experiments on the creatures or what they hope to learn from them at the facility makes their mission even more problematic overall. As these are all in disservice to the pacing here, this one is just so dull and barely interesting that it feels a lot longer than the others, which makes it incredibly hard to get into this one. Added together with the unimpressive action scenes that don't really mean much of anything that happens here is interesting, this one is quite the bland and unappealing effort.
Overview: */5
An utterly bland and dull sequel effort, there's not much to like here on its own, even against the original, and while it's not as outright awful as it should be, this is still quite low overall. Those with an appreciation for this era of genre fare or who are fans of the original will want to give this a shot, while most others out there should heed outright caution.
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