Load of rubbish!!

hyped garbage

Disapointment

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Smarmy opportunist writer/director Worthy Milligan (the extremely grating Garrett Clancy) convinces traumatized sole survivor Tricia (well played by Jennifer Ritchkoff) to go back to Camp Blood to work as a technical adviser on a film he's making about the horrific events which happened in the area. Of course, the murderous machete-wielding Clown (the singularly unfrightening Danny Rayfield) shows up to commit more brutal killings. Writer/director Brad Sykes strikes out something stinky with this lousy and unnecessary sequel to the hilariously horrendous original: the shoddy make-up f/x, the largely dreadful acting from a pathetic non-star cast of rank amateurs, the inevitable flashback footage from the first flick, Jeff Leroy's fuzzy, ugly, eye-straining cinematography, the plodding pace, the slow, talky script, the uniformly obnoxious and unappealing characters, the groan-inducing surprise twist ending, and a generic ooga-booga spooky'n'shuddery synthesizer score by Ghost are all exceptionally atrocious. As an added bonus, busty'n'lusty blonde babe Lisa Marie Bolick bares her yummy bod in a thoroughly gratuitous, but still much-appreciated shower scene. Dumb, clunky and bereft of any tension, this endearingly abominable schlock is positively mind-numbing in its jaw-dropping badness.

"Camp Blood 2" is a decent slasher, but it's far better than the first one.**SPOILERS**One year after the massacre at Camp Blood, Director Worth Milligan, (Garrett Clancy) wants to make a movie what happened, and manages to get original survivor Tricia Young, (Jennifer Ritchkoff) on board. With the cast, Adrienne Palmer, (Missy Rae Hansen) Vanessa, (Sonya Joy Sims) Lance, (Mark Overholt) and Todd, (Timothy Patrick) together, they head into the same woods as before, and Tricia constantly fears that the killer is still out there. As the cast and crew start disappearing, she claims the killer clown has returned, and when she's proved true, the rest of the film-makers have to fight off the killer.The Good News: This wasn't terrible, and it did have a few good things going for it. The first is a huge improvement over the killer's mask. This one is a more demonic looking clown mask, and it looks a lot more imposing in here. That earns it a big plus, as does the killer. Far more physically threatening, this one is far, far better and does manage to get a good scare here and there. The kills in here aren't that bad, and are quite decently done. We get a couple slit throats, a person set on fire, a machete slice to the top of a person's head, and the coolest one, using a broken beer bottle to gouge out both eyes of a victim. It's far more effective than how it sounds, and it scores as the coolest scene. The film does move at a fairly fast pace, helped along mostly with the inclusion of several flashbacks, and the woods themselves do give off a mildly threatening atmosphere. This could've been a whole lot worse.The Bad News: One of the main things that holds this one down is that the cheese that helps most films here instead hurts it. The fact that the film is cheesy here results in the fact that the gore looks terrible and is quite disastrous. Several wounds re-appear later at completely different places than where they were first struck at, it spurts out quite unrealistically, and in general it looks really terrible. The film also looks pretty bad in a couple other areas, which is another big sign of it's cheesy nature. There are many plot holes and confusing moments in here that to take time out to explain them all would be a waste, but just know that they're there and quite obvious. There's also the fact that the film contains the overly-clichéd "film-within-the-film" storyline, as it's really been done to death and can't really have anything new brought to it. It also shows off the cheesy nature even more. There's other factors which hurt this one, but those are the big ones.The Final Verdict: There's far worse films out there, but this still has a lot of problems to fix. It is better than the first one, so it has that going for it, but the only real ones who will get much out of this will be the most ardent slasher fans or the low-budget, independent film fans.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Full Nudity, brief drug use and a mild clothed sex scene

Tricia (Jennifer Ritchkoff), the only survivor of the Camp Blood massacre, is locked away in a lunatic asylum, for she is still suspected to have been the murderer herself, although she blames it on "The Clown". A movie director wants to make a no-budget movie about the incident and asks to have her released under supervision to return to Camp Blood, give technical advice and tell the "true" story. However, soon after the arrival in the woods, crew members disappear and "The Clown" is spotted again... "Camp Blood 2" fortunately is more than just hacking and slashing. It is an amateur movie making fun of amateur movies, its bad directors and bad actors. Yes, it is bad! But deliberately putting that to a use, and therefore it's sometimes quite funny. Fans of "Friday the 13th" will enjoy this less than fans of Ed Wood's movies, I suppose.

I was surprised to see that this one is actually at least twice as good as its predecessor. Sure enough, it can't stand up to SCREAM or I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. But it is self-referential and has a (bloody) good plot, especially the ending. If there is Part III: PLEEEEEASSSEEE, don't film the whole thing on video, it just makes you sick to watch 73 minutes à la Blair Witch Project. By the way: Candyman, Scream 2, Friday the 13th, Scream Bloody Murder, Texas Chainsaw Massacre are just some of the hundred film that "inspired" this one. If you liked that one, watch "Bloody Murder".