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After a traumatized woman kills her rich husband in self defense, his family and friends show up to secure a piece of the inheritance for themselves even if it means driving the poor woman insane - or worse.
Inner Sanctum II
1994 Directed by Fred Olen Ray
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30 Nov 1994
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law of diminishing returns ensured this one was better than inner sanctum #1. it's basically the same movie but fred was clearly less interested in doing a lazy cash grab imitation of erotic thriller genre conventions by 94 and treats it like a standard horror/thriller which is much better!
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Surprenamment, c'est une vrai suite au premier. C'est pas juste un 2 rajouter au titre pour surfer sur le klout du premier. Sauf que tout ce que je me souvenait du premier, c'est qu'il y avait pas mal de monde qui déboulaient des escaliers.
Ben dans celui la, y'a encore des escaliers, mais personne déboule, c'est un peu décevant. Par contre je m'attendais pas à voir un squelette vomir sur quelqu'un. Merci pour ça Fred Olen Ray.
Aussi, je vous annonce le cast du remake queb que je vais tourner en 1995: René Martel, Sylvie Boucher, Marie-Josée Croze, Yves Soutière, Edgar Fruitier, Martin Drainville, Claude Léveillé, Deano Clavet.
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“A dark psychological horror flick in sexy dressing… The opening cemetery dream sequence establishes an appropriately ghoulish, Tales from the Crypt-scented tone, and Ray ratchets up the tension throughout INNER SANCTUM II’s duration with a wealth of expertly assembled frights that range from quietly spooky to mighty, pant-soiling jolts.”
Read Matty’s full review after the jump. Featuring an interview with director Fred Olen Ray!
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Not as «good» as the first one. I do like that there's more of a horror feeling, but then there's the characters. Margaux Hemningway is just as bad as she was in the first, but the «new Jennifer» takes the cake. Tracy Brooks Swope is a terrible actress, annoyingly so.
Still, it's a fine time waster. You can tell Fred Olen Ray had fun with it. For an unrated version (watched in laserdisc), I did expect more explicit scenes though.
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Director Fred Olen Ray’s sequel to his INNER SANCTUM is more or less a remake using the same characters, but a different cast, save for Margaux Hemingway (LIPSTICK), who is terrible in both films. Tracy Brooks Swope (HARD TO HOLD), who killed her husband in self-defense two weeks ago, is haunted by nightmares. Kato Kaelin is in them; I would add “for some reason,” but Kaelin’s cameo got Ray’s dumb little direct-to-video picture written up in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, so mission accomplished.
Helping Swope get through this tough time are her doctor (David Warner!), new nurse Jennifer Ciesar (RED SHOE DIARIES), handyman John E. Coleman (ANGEL EYES), and in-laws Michael Nouri (FLASHDANCE) and Sandahl Bergman (CONAN THE BARBARIAN). Many or most…
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Despite the addition of David Warner and Joe Estevez to the cast, this sequel is dullsville.
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I guess this is what I get for watching Inner Sanctum II before I saw the first one. I'm sure there was detailed backstory on these characters that I missed. This was kind of throwaway really. At first I thought it might be a little supernatural mixed with some classic 90's erotic thriller but that didn't happen. Here's what did happen. Some blonde woman screamed like 800 times in 80 minutes and then some other blonde woman killed a couple people. The end.
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Half erotic thriller, half SFX creature slasher. The first two acts pretty much alternate rote sexual intrigue and nested nightmare sequences, trying to pull the dream-within-a-dream thing twice in so many minutes. Body doubles abound, and doctors are apparently capable of tasting the presence of mild adulterants in their drugs. A woman never sits and laments her misfortune in a circle of candles like the cover promises, which seems like false advertising.
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The first Inner Sanctum was one of the first erotic thrillers of the '90s and Inner Sanctum II follows the same good formula. It's also directed by the same director of the former: Fred Olen Ray.
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Picks up where the first movie left off. Different actor playing the same part. Margot Hemmingway is back, but she's spelling her name differently. Trades the paranoid fantasy of cuckold sex for a zombie ex-husband, back from the dead to terrorize, paranoia. I suppose you could say this is part horror with the undead and all. Still firmly rooted in that skinemax, softcore world, in case you were worried Fred Olen Ray was deviating too far from the first movie.
