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Suprak:
F+

This was the hardest one for me to rank. I want to rank it both lower and higher at the same time. On the one hand, this is some bullshit. I have not seen the first movie but I had the nagging sense at the twenty minute mark that something was wrong. I mean everything was obviously wrong, but that something was REALLY wrong. So I paused the movie (never a good sign) to go to Goolge and found out my suspicion was correct. The entire first half of this movie (not even an exaggeration) is a literal clip show of the first movie. They made a sequel and half of it is just scenes from the first movie shown again. You cant do that. Thats illegal. People have gone to jail for less than that. You know how clip shows are everyone least favorite episode of a tv series? What if we made that into a movie? Thats the design process here. They might as well started with a last time on Silent, Night Deadly Night then played the entire movie again.

Thats kind of the reason I wanted to rank this last. I hate that this list is so bad I cant do that. I hate that this list is so bad that this might end up in the top half. There are some truly abysmally lazy movies on this list, but this is the only one that is just the same movie again wearing a funny mustache and trying to pretend its someone else. Every other movie on this list was at least a new movie. Do you know how low of a bar that is? That Im looking at this and looking at the others and Im muttering to myself well at least they made a new movie this time I guess. I havent even seen the first movie and Im still mad. This was at least all new to me. If I had watched the entire first movie, then started this one and realized I was watching almost the entire same movie, again, I mightve done a murder. I dont know on who. I wouldve blacked out and come to and my hands would be covered in blood and Id just be angrily saying naughty! over and over again.

It doesnt help that the movie were flashing back to also looks awful. Like that movie alone might be bad enough to find its way on a list like this. Neither that movie nor this movie seem to know how to actually do horror. A guy walking around attacking random meatbags you dont care about isnt a good way to install fear or dread. Id call this a poor mans Friday the 13th, but this isnt even that. This is a broke mans Friday the 13th. Seeing him impale a woman on some deer antlers is like maybe kind of interesting but thats basically the high point. The other scary bits we get feel more goofy than anything else. Ricky does his scary voice the entire film and you sort of get the impression he mightve been doing it as a joke but I cant tell. You have a guy in a Santa suit going to shake some kids hands before a cop shows up and starts firing indiscriminately towards the guy and like fifteen kids, and that winds up being the scariest part of the movie because it is just too real. The next scene where the cop isnt even off duty and is just like JEEZ WILL YOU STOP WHINING I SAID I WAS SORRY I KILLED YOUR JANITOR feels like it could be social commentary on something if the movie wasnt so dumb that I dont think it is actively trying to do commentary on anything. So you have this really bad movie serving as clips for half of this somehow worse movie. Thats the sort of thing that should get this the 30 spot and Im heartbroken it is going to wind up nowhere near that spot.

The flashbacks do end at some point though and the rest of the movie isnt the worst. Well, I guess the flashbacks continue, but it is new flashbacks. You have first movie flashbacks and then brand new flashbacks that happen after the first movie but before the start of the second, but at least those flashbacks werent flashbacks to things we couldve theoretically already seen. I also think the movie picks up a bit at that point in general. Its really bad for a lot of reasons, but it at least has some occasional flashes which is more than I can say for a lot of other movies here. It feels like a movie and while it isnt what Id consider a well put together film, it at least looks and feels mostly professionally done. Thats why Im torn between ranking this higher and lower. Taking it at face value, this is just a really bad movie but not so bad that youre confused how and why it was made. It should theoretically be ahead of a couple of other movies Im ranking above it, but I couldnt bring myself to do it considering half of it is a rehash and the other half isnt even good. It is at least watchable but not necessarily for the best reasons. The framing device is still dumb, although I got a good laugh when the doctor is looking around the room only for Ricky to pop in from the side and do his stupid Ricky voice right in his ear.

Im legitimately confused what kind of movie the second half is even supposed to be. The first movie looks to be pretty much a straight up bad horror movie from what I can tell from all the clips, but when they get into Rickys story it seems different. There are no more horror scenes. In fact, a lot of what here looks like something that would be in something like Scary Movie. Theres the cut of the bully talking to his friend then looking right then talking to his friend then looking right and then coming back and Ricky looks like hes sitting on the other guys lap and then he attacks. You see nothing, but just like legs kicking up in the air and then hes just back and walking down the street with his girlfriend. Then we get that rampage scene of him walking around town, and some random guy is taking out the garbage, prompting Ricky to yell GARBAGE DAY! in a weird voice and shoot him through the trash can. I laughed harder at that than I had most comedy movies recently. It earns the third hardest laugh of this entire list, which should get this a higher placement than wherever it ultimately finishes. Ricky stabs some guy with an umbrella and then opens the umbrella. And almost all of the people hes killing (pre-rampage) are shown to be awful people. There just isnt a horror element to things.