See No Evil 2 [Blu-ray + Digital HD]

The unusually long (8 years) gap between a movie and its first sequel hasn't hurt See No Evil 2 in the least. Featuring Glen 'Kane' Jacobs back in the role of chain-wielding, hulking slasher Jacob Goodnight, See No Evil 2 is actually a significant improvement over the original, which itself was a very fine horror movie despite a couple of flaws.The eight-year gap doesn't exist in the movie itself, with events picking up just minutes or hours after the conclusion of the first one, with a dying Goodnight being rushed to the hospital before dying en route and eventually being delivered to the same morgue as the bodies of his previous victims. At the morgue, it's the middle of the night and virtually deserted, with one of the place's three graveyard shift workers, Amy (Danielle Harris of the Halloween movies and an impressive number of other horror films) ready to sign out for the night and head off to celebrate her birthday with a small gathering of friends. When news arrives of fresh bodies coming in, she scraps her plans, prompting her co-workers to conspire and call over a few of their mutual friends to have a smaller celebration after their work is done. It's only after the shipment comes in that they realize that what they've got there are the remains of a massacre, complete with the body of the killer himself.Jacob Goodnight turns out to be not quite dead though, and after reviving and attacking two of the friends, proceeds to target anything else that moves. It's past midnight, down several floors underground in a labyrinth-like collection of rooms and corridors and autopsy chambers, with many of the secondary doors locked up for the night, and many of the chambers containing large numbers of diverse cutting instruments. It's hunting time.The stalking and hiding and pursuit scenes, and the fact that the main group gets seperated into two smaller units, neither of which wants to leave without their friends, actually make it credible how Goodnight is able to corner his prey and cut off the few unlocked routes out of the morgue. It's also very much of a vicious cat-and-mouse game, with the killer on a couple of occasions seemingly slowing down his onslaught for a few moments just to let a seemingly doomed victim escape and stay alive for a few more minutes, thus prolonging the fun. Goodnight is a killing machine, but one that clearly relishes his work.He also comes off as smarter and more powerful this time around. The look of the character has been modified, with Jacob using a burn victim's mask to cover his face (badly damaged in the previous movie) and incorporating a leather apron (of the kind worn by coroners during autopsies) as part of the makeshift binding for some of his other wounds (again, from the previous movie). He was an effective villain the first time, but here he comes closer to being a horror character that can actually be counted among the likes of Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and company. An interesting sidenote is that the cast of Goodnight's actual or potential victims contains cast members that can be traced to all three of the 'Big 3'; Harris, as mentioned, appeared in several of the Halloween films, while Katherine Isabelle was in Freddy Vs. Jason. The movie itself is well made, with gruesomely believable special effects, a solid overall job on production, and good performances all round. Having made the second chapter of this series a notch above its predecessor, and having now established that Jacob Goodnight can come back from more than what was thrown at him in the first film, I see no reason there couldn't be a See No Evil 3. Hopefully it just won't take eight years this time.

I like it though it's not as great as the first bit if your a WWE fan or a horror fan it was reasonably priced & worth adding to your collection

IT WAS A VERY GOOD MOVIE NO MATTER WHAT THE HATERS SAY. I ONLY WISH AMAZON HAD LISTED TH ENAMES OF THE DIRECTORS. JEN AND SYLVIA SOSKA. I FEEL BY NOT LISTING THEM AS DIRECTORS, THEY WERE SLIGHTED , AS PEOPLE WHOENJOYED THS MOVIE ,(LIKE ME VERY MUCH SO!) WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SEE W/O A BIT OF RESEARCH WHO DIRECTED IT, AND THOSE PEOLE WHO HAVE LIKED THIS MIGHT HAVE CHECKED OUT THE DIRECTORS NAMES TO CHECK-OUT SOME OF THEIR OTHER FILMS THEY'VE DONE. AMZ. COULD HAVE LISTED A BIT MORE INFO. IN THEIR DESCRIPTION..WHILE MOST OF THE BEST TOP NOTCH HORROR THESE DAYS HAVE DIRECTORS WHO ARE KOREAN.(MY OPINION,AND ALOT OFMY FRIENDS) THE SOSKAS ARE KEEPING UPVERY WELL WITH THEIR RELEASES.ALSO CHECK-OUT ABC'S OF DEATH 2, AND VENDETTA FEATURING PAUL WHITE WHEN RELEASED.

SEE NO EVIL 2I loved the first “See No Evil” and while it was not a horror classic or anything it was still very fun. Since the day it was released I had been waiting for a sequel. The years went by and I could not believe that it never came. The talk had been there since they started filming the first one. As the years and films from WWE went by they even released sequels for some of their other films. Finally the day came and it was announced that a part two was coming out, and that it was going to be darker. I was so excited that the film was finally going to be made.Jacob Goodnight is dead and on his way to the morgue for his final processing along with the victims of his from the first film. Unfortunately for the staff on the nightshift this actually isn’t true, Jacob is very much alive. So as the night goes on and staff starts to disappear it seems one body that came in is also missing, Jacob’s. Now the crew must fight to stay alive as Mr. Goodnight stalks the halls of the morgue.This is a good film and a nice sequel to the first film and like the Soska Sisters wanted it looks and feels like a different movie from the first. I have to admit that they did a good job making this look and feel like a more traditional horror film. You see the first movie in this series was more fun and over the top and seemed less like a horror film even though it was. This one has got the look and tone down perfect even down to the film taking place in a dark cold morgue. Add in that the characters are trapped in said building and it is very horror atmospheric.Now with all that said I have to say that a big deal to the twins was the kills in this film and for what the movie is they were very good. But I liked the over the top kills of the original just as much so I don’t think they upped the anti here like they bragged about. Still it was a good film and makes me want a third film even more, perhaps the look and feel of this one with campy fun of the first is the recipe for a classic film with Jacob Goodnight.The acting here is perfect for what was called for and while there very little likable characters I kinda think that makes you root for Kane even more here, which is fun. The writers here came up with a good story to follow up the last that called for a smaller budget, in fact they have gone on to write two upcoming WWE films in “Lockdown” which will have the excellent Dean Ambrose in it and then a film called “Bermuda”, which is about, you guessed it the Bermuda Triangle.The DVD comes with some behind the scenes stuff as well as a feature on the Directing Sisters among other things. I really wish we would have had a commentary on here. Out of all the types of films I love commentaries on it is horror films. I very disappointed that we didn’t get one here. One with the sisters or with them and Kane would have been great. I say check it out if you are a horror fan or wrestling fan, it is a good film over all.

Happy with it

I really enjoyed this sequel and to me it was way better than the 1st one. I didnt even knew they made a sequel, I just came across it here on amazon. To me this was made just like the 80's type slasher films.The 1st one was made in 2006 according to my dvd box.Why did it take them 8 years to make this one ?? I hope they dont take that long to make the 3rd one... That is if they do make it...

I honestly love this movie. No, it wasn't scary, but If you liked the first one, you should like this one! I like the new Jacob Goodnight although *spoiler* I didn't like the fact that he spoke other than that, it was only one problem with this movie.....I thought sequels were suppose to be better and part one still tops this, but its definitely worth a watch tho. I was pleased