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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.
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