'The Stakelander' (2016) - Dan Berk & Robert Olsen.

Excluding the inimitable insanity of 'Troll 2', I'm usually not that big on quick-buck cash-in horror sequels, but the surprisingly epic, emotionally satisfying 'The Stakelander' proved to be a more than worthy sequel to the boisterously blood-thirsty, ante-upping original! The deliciously doomy dystopian 'Road Warrior' vibe is ominously orchestrated throughout, and Saskatchewan has never looked so apocalyptically sinister! 

If 'Stakeland' proved to be a new Eden for the modern vampire movie then 'The Stakelander' is its blood-soaked Babylon! In this desperate, fear-stoked frontier, dangerously overrun by miserably mutated bloodsuckers and zealously human-hating cultists, only those brave stalwart souls who would risk all to stake their bloody claim might survive! The likeable, roughly-hewn survivalists are sympathetically drawn, plus there's a excitingly rumbustious, spaghetti western synergy to our heroes grisly quest to vanquish the monstrously powerful Vampire queen that enigmatically sets Stake Land 2 apart from the cookie-cutter bland, Jump-scare jack-assery that perniciously pollutes so much of modern horror today! Ace composer Redding Hunter's rousingly atmospheric score is superb, and Nick Damici's sharp-shooting, rattlesnake-mean 'Mister' is still the gnarliest vampire slayer since the swift, sword-strapped Wesley Snipes immortally deadly 'Blade'. Roll on 'Stakelander III' and thereby complete one of the more triumphantly toothsome terror trilogies of today!