The Hidden II

I commented on how the Hidden was a fantastic movie for the B-genre and i waited in anticipation to see the next instalment as i found an original video from ebay. How disappointed was i? Not one sport car,not much goo or gore a crap story and a S**t ending. As you can see from my other reviews i love the B movies of the 80's and early 90's and where most people call a movie bad,for me and people who truly respect the Horror movies of our era would shout from the rooftops to close your mind and watch as these movies give birth to the future of Horror or of the classic horror movies we have today! However i have to agree that compared to its predecessor this is total pants. I waisted about £4.50 on this and i am so ashamed to have it as part of my collection! I made amends though by shouting hail Marys and bought the full collection of Hellraiser in the original format box and tape! Sorry but avoid!!!!!

Why? The first film I gave an 8 but this movie is just appalling. Using footage from the original - stupid. It just shows how bad the rest of the film is. Acting goes from completely dismal to barely OK. The effects (while there is more than the first) are mostly cheesy and crappy.

This film is one of the worst sequels I've ever seen. Nothing new, nothing unique, nothing is what it all amounts to. Watch the first one or most sci-fi in general before this pile.

I gave it a 2 because there was some merit in certain scenes (even though I'd be hard pressed to point them out).

I try to be open minded and forgiving when I review but this movie forced me to be negative. Avoid.

The stage curtains open ...

After watching the original movie (for like the 100th time), I decided to finally break down and watch its sequel - which I have never seen before. I saw that it starred Kate Hodge, who I liked in the Brandon Lee film, "Rapid Fire", so I was hopeful that this one would be good too ... at least on that level. Well, it wasn't as good as that movie, but it was better than I expected it would be.

The film starts out with a dog walking into the end scene of the previous film while a crew is busy cleaning up the mess. The dog snags a piece of the alien and trots out the door where it eats the alien flesh and then later dies for its efforts. The alien cultivates eggs so that it can spawn anew and begin another reign of terror. When Tom Beck dies, another good alien is sent to Earth and finds his daughter, Juliet, who helps him to adjust to life among humans and find the bad alien, who has begun jumping from body to body. Along the way, she falls in love with him leading to an inevitable conclusion.

Right off the bat, the acting was several notches below the mark set by the first movie, but, it was still done well enough to keep things entertaining. This was definitely a "B-Movie" and it has that feel all the way through. Despite a lousy beginning, it did start to pick up some when the chemistry between our two main characters begins to build, and we find out a little bit more about what life is like on the planet the aliens come from. The special effects weren't jaw dropping, but effective.

This wasn't a bad film. I've seen a lot worse, so I can't complain. It was "okay", and for a sequel, it does what it sets out to do. I am glad, however, that they ended it there. I just don't think there was anything else they could do in a third film to warrant making it. Though, the final scene made me wonder if they were planning on making one at one point. I wouldn't recommend "The Hidden 2", but I wouldn't dissuade anyone from watching it either. It does not measure up to the original, but I had a fun time overall with it.

Sequel to the first film begins by repeating the climax from Part I(best footage in this movie!) before telling its own story about how, after the first aliens destruction, it left behind eggs in the unfortunate dog, which emerge 15 years later to wreck the same kind of havoc as the first. Cop Tom Beck from the first(who is really the good cop alien, after events in Part I), has a now grown daughter, also a cop, so she teams with the good alien cop to stop this new menace.

Something like that, since none of the cast from the first return here, and who can blame them? Perfectly awful film is badly directed and written, not to mention dreary and pointless, and accomplishes nothing more than trashing the memory of the original.

Only saw it because it was released on a double-feature DVD with the first.

This movie starts out fine because the first 10 minutes just replays the final of the original movie. But then all of a sudden the acting becomes really bad, so this must be the movie proper. Just to really let you know that this is going to be a very different movie they kill off everyone who survived the original in the next ten minutes. Then they don't know where to take the viewer and decide to just have the actors read out the script without any acting involved. To make it more easy for them everything is set in dark surroundings, so you can't see there not acting involved

Please stay clear of this movie, because this is a real stinker..