Friday, June 7, 2024

'The Curse II: The Bite' (1988) – Frederico Prosperi.

Prosperi's inventively gory, inexplicably neglected Body horror hokum finds a photogenic, road-tripping couple ignoring a redneck's explicit warnings, and, grimly forewarned, blithely drive pell-mell into one sinisterly serpentine, splatter-strewn nightmare! Granted, this penurious US/Euro co-production is no undiscovered masterpiece, but the goodly gory stuff herein is frequently pretty choice! Once Jill Schoellen's hunky beau J. Eddie Peck is bitten by a malevolently mutated snake, Screaming Mad George's audaciously special FX give this 80s shocker its much-needed bite. The lack of cogent plot is noisily disguised by a colourful plethora of eccentric characters, another sympathetic performance by Jill Schoelen, and Screaming Mad George's vivid, deliciously disgusting gooey FX remain a reality-boggling treat! Spectacularly splattery sequels to largely forgotten horror films are rarely as much fun as this one!

 



 





 

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