I guess we couldn’t make it through a 31 Days of Horror-Ween/Halloween Hangover marathon of horror movies without coming across a Dustin Ferguson flick. Axegrinder 2 is one of his worst. The first one was bad, but this is the pits.
This was one of the longest seventy-nine minutes of my life. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the film hadn’t been comprised of 80% filler. The credits sequences go on forever, there are dreams/flashbacks to the first movie to pad out the running time, and useless prologues and epilogues further bloats things out.
You know you’re in deep shit when things stop on a goddamn dime so that annoying YouTuber Shawn C. Phillips can go into his “DVD dojo” and pick out a movie to watch. (No, for real.) Thankfully he gets killed off. Unfortunately, it occurs offscreen. Most of the kills are like that though. They’re all build-up and no follow-through. You wait and wait, and the only payoff you get is an offscreen death and a little blood splatter. It’s pathetic. Add to that the unending red tinted killer POV shots and an infuriatingly anticlimactic ending, and you have yourself the makings of one sorry slasher sequel.
The bulk of the movie focuses on two couples camping in the woods and being stalked by a killer in a clown mask. Had Ferguson just concentrated on this aspect of the film, it might’ve worked. Then again, maybe not.
The only good scene is when two hot goth chicks (Selena D. and Julie Anne Prescott) hike in the desert. After Julie Anne stops to take a leak, they are chased by the axe-wielding psycho in the clown mask. This sequence also contains at least one funny line. (“Why are you topless?”) It’s like the peanut in a proverbial piece of poop. (Unless you count the dream the clown has where a naked chick showers, but even that is ruined by some sort of hypno-wheel effect over the camera.)
The ensuing sequels are actually kind of decent and seem like Halloween compared to this mess.
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