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Horroctober 2012

I'm BORED! So bloody bored...
-Scarabis

Anthony Hickox returns as the writer/director for the sequel to his original Waxwork. Like Tobe Hooper and Sam Raimi before him, he seems to have decided to make a full fledged comedy out of his horror sequel. The problem is that Hickox is not in the same league as Hooper or Raimi and seems to be handicapped by having no actual sense of humor.

The film's premise is just an excuse to have the main characters jump in time which are mostly just poorly executed ripoffs of better movies. Seriously, if you're Anthony Hickox the last thing you should be doing is reminding me of movies such as Alien and…

I had low hopes for this 15 minutes in I found those expectations met. The direction seemed a little flat and the film is a little dull. Then the two main characters start travelling in time and it really picks up. The Frankenstein part is decent, though it’s weird to see Martin Kemp in a film like this. The next scenes are all in the world of The Haunting. Bruce Campbell has a role in this and does a great job. There is a scene where he is tied up with his chest cut open and ribs exposed. He has a sack of salt thrown at his exposed innards then a load of vinegar that’s mistaken for water thrown over…

For the most part a pretty respectable sequel - the first half and maybe ten minutes near the end make for a worthy followup as our two surviving heroes from the first movie jump from one horror-movie adventure to another looking for evidence of the feasibility of reanimating dead flesh, so as to present it at court where the girl is on trial for the murder of her dad and thus prove that her alibi - that it was really a severed hand that did it, Evil Dead 2-style - is plausible enough for reasonable doubt. Read that again if you have to - yes, that's really the plot. Lots of great cameos too - David Carradine, Bruce Campbell, Marina…