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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Better as a stand alone than a sequel, June 2, 2005
When a couple of Goth teens are murdered as they videotape their favorite make out spot, a team of archeologists are called in to identify the teens and gain clues to their murder. Met with hostility by the town, they discover four graves on the murder site, and then must unlock that mystery as well.
While the movie has the fun energy level and cheesy special effects that we've come to know and love from Full Moon, this story has more plot holes than cohesive plot threads. For example, in Witchouse, Lilith LeFey was brought back to live of the 300 year anniversary of her murder. However, This movie gives the date of her death as 1826. the math doesn't hold up. The ending, also, gave me a massive headache. I was left staring at the screen and wondering what the heck happened. It just didn't make sense and didn't flow with the rest of the film. Also, the dead Goth teens are what brought the team to town are mentioned only in the beginning and then ignored for the last hour of film.
My only other complaint involves part of the film's style. This came out right after the first Blair Witch film, so large chunks of this film are shown only through a home video camera, in a parody of the other film's style. Full Moon is best when it's original, not when it's copying someone else.
Yes, there are better horror films and there are many horror movies that are much, much worse. Yet, if you're looking for a film that's entertaining and you don't think the story through to much, it's definitely fun.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I hated the first one, but I liked this one..., December 15, 2000
By A Customer
J.R. Bookwalter took the hand Full Moon dealt him and made a NON SEQUEL to the first movie of the same name. I felt this worked SO much better. The effects work well, the acting is better than most Full Moon films and at least the darned movie was outdoors a lot more (unlike the first and most Full Moon trapped in the house plot devices). The Blair Witch-esque parts are really good. Good job, J.R. Charlie Band should let you direct MORE Full Moon films. Full Moon recommendations on DVD include: Pit & The Pendulum and Dead Hate The Living.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Horrendously bad and annoying, October 12, 2005
Typical tale of witchcraft, some college kids dig up a few corpses (to identify the DNA), the witch takes over their bodies and turns the rest into ghouls. A few are left to fight against her, helped out by a mysterious guy who knows the secret of the witch. But none of that really matters.
I don't mind if somebody wants to rip off the hand-held camcorder style of Blair Witch, but puh-leeze, let there be some reason for it. Not only is there no reason for it here, but all the scenes which might have been in the movie - the ones which advance the plot and flesh out the characters - have been jettisoned in favor of having the college kids do a bunch of utterly pointless interviews, which gives them an excuse to use a camcorder. This is as rancid as film making gets.
Just when I thought I'd had all I could take of pointless camcorder footage, along comes a solid quarter hour of camcorder footage, just interviewing random citizens that live in this town, most of it done for comic relief I guess. Though it wasn't funny. I put the DVD player on 8X fast forward and it still took several minutes to get through it.
Then we get to go through a house as viewed through the camcorder - with the low battery light blinking the entire time. Everyone acts really really scared, until they find the ghouls. Then they aren't scared any more. Apparently they filmed these scenes on different days and nobody bothered to remember that they were acting scared in the previous scene.
Lest I forget, the main character is completely obnoxious. You'll be rooting for him do die in the most gruesome way. He lives. The other characters are utterly banal.
I normally enjoy Full Moon pictures, they usually have a very original plot and make the most of their minuscule budgets. However, director J.R. Bookwalter has no use for originality - he's one of those people who look at what has made money for other people and then tries to copy it. It's people like him that are the reason Hollywood sucks as bad as it does, and now it looks like Full Moon pictures is going in that direction as well. He also manages to get the worst performances possible out of his actors.
Avoid this thing like the plague.
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