Oh no...

What the hell happened here?

Ya know, I thought, well, this one looks like a movie, at least. (After that "certain movie" of last week, I was very wary.) Cheap, sure. But, hey, Revenge! There's something to shoot for. Conjures up interesting images. Here we go.

Boy, this opening scene sure looks familiar. Say, that doctor who's examining the body that fell from the fire escape looks familiar. His voice reminds me of... Then, the reporter comes up & talks about the sheriff's dead daughter, how she killed her boyfriend, ritualistic killings at the college sorority... Uh-oh. And then, the gold medallion comes out. Oh no! This movie is the sequel to Blood Cult! What the hell happened?

So, I took some breaths & tried to swim in & enjoy it. It looks better than Blood Cult. John Carradine is in it for about 8 minutes. I think some guy related to John Wayne is in it... or someone. There are other human people in it. Quite a few from Blood Cult. They still stink, though. (Was this made immediately after Blood Cult? Why?)

I suffered through the 100-odd minutes of this with deep, deep pains in my stomach. It answered all the questions I had about the first one. But, it answered them all almost exactly as I thought it would. I'm looking at last week's review and trying to answer quite a few of the questions. Revamping the first paragraph's questions: Yes, yes, no. The point of the boyfriend is just to be killed because that way his brother can show up and do whatever it is he does. A waitress, who is clearly part of the cult, put the drug in the Sheriff's drink. The Sheriff took a long time calculating everything because that's what was needed to fill up the running time. It happens in this one, too. The brother and the lady on the farm spend an inordinate amount of time wading through plot waters that seem unnecessary after the first film. Why? Because we have to sustain the running time! Isn't the best way to do that with redundant investigation? The campus isn't closed because the dean is part of the conspiracy. The coeds stay on the campus apparently because they have no brains. Although, in this one, most of the killing happens off campus grounds. Those were all the questions I saw that needed answering.

Here are a few more: What exactly is going on with the dog-faced sister in the final scene? Who is on the motorcycle? Is every member of the town in the cult except the lady on the farm? Can you have a viable secret cult in a small town where the entire population are members of it except for an old woman who could give a crap? Hell, if no one ever saw this movie, would it still be made? If we all went out of our way to not watch this movie, would it become unmade? Would the scenes come apart, the words make no sense, the music separate into notes and the pictures fade until the film was blank again? I don't know. But, it sure as hell is worth a try. I don't know why we're all sitting around. Simple and basic ignoring tactics might get this film off our hands.

Let's try it. 1... 2... 3... ignore...