The Fear 2: Halloween Night
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As a young boy, Michael (Gordon Currie) witnessed his father kill his mother with an axe and then his father hung himself. Twenty years later her drives six of his friends to his grandparents farm in Hackett (a place known for a serial killer that would run drivers off the road at night, asks them their worst fear and then kill them). The next night is Halloween night and he wants to do an old Indian ritual with his friends that will dispel your worst fears, Michael’s being commitment and turning into his father. With the help of the Indian helper Crow (Byron Chief-Moon), he will perform the ceremony wearing the “death mask” which is fashioned after a wooden marionette named Morty. Morty houses evil spirits but they’re contained by a raven’s wing that hangs around his neck. Of course one of Michael’s friends steals the Raven’s wing, and no one notices. In the ceremony everyone must be dressed up as their worst fears. After confessing the truth behind his parents death to his girlfriend of four and a half years, Peggy (Stacy Grant), Michael beats his father’s grave with a stick. Peggy gets freaked out and runs off, as Michael chases her he fails to notice his father’s grave beginning to seep blood and somewhere Morty twitches. One by one Michael’s friends start to die according to their deepest fear. Has Morty come to life or is Michael becoming HIS worst fear…his father…

Never help stranded motorists on a dark road...the chances are they'll kill you.
Don't take relationship advice from a girl who's been married twice.

"Afraid of making decisions are we? Here's one for you...do you want me to chop of your head or rip out your heart?" ~Morty.

Meh...

This movie was neither good nor bad. It just was. I had no particular feelings either way. The characters were mundane and one dimensional, if they lived…cool…if not…whatever. Everyone’s fears were so…normal. Rats, horses, snakes, heights, darkness, clowns, small spaces, water, decisions, blood…that left for rather boring kills. The girl that was afraid of blood…first the guy slammed her face into the toilet, then let her face bleed into it (although there was no blood on her face) and then drowned her in her own bloody toilet water. Lame. The claustrophobic girl was stupid too. If she were truly as claustrophobic as she claimed to be, she wouldn’t have been able to sit in that car with 4 other people AND she wouldn’t have been able to sit in her box costume. I’ve known some claustrophobic people…they wouldn’t do that. BUT...it was funnt what the killer did with the guy who couldn't make decisions. Haha...that made me laugh. I also didn’t understand the whole back-story of the marionette. If this thing gave people the urge to kill (“the fear” as they call it) then why wouldn’t they just destroy it? Why keep it in the attic and take care of it and talk to it? In all…this movie didn’t really make a whole lot of sense. I thought I was picking up the first of The Fear series, but I guess I picked up the second one on accident…maybe there’s a whole story behind the wooden doll…but then it wouldn’t make sense that it’s been in Michael’s family for many, many years. Oh well. Personally, I wouldn’t bother with this movie. At least when a movie is bad, you can be like, “Ugh! That was so bad!” and when it’s good you can recommend it…this was just blah. None of the actors were bad either...they were average. Maybe it’d make a good drinking game since it's so predictable. Because of this, the jury gives this flick:

(Bored)

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