Laura Giglio stars as a true crime podcaster preparing an episode on the murders of Bloody Creek. While she does research, a copycat killer wearing a pumpkin mask begins claiming new victims. Incensed, the original killer comes out of retirement and tries to compete with the body count. It doesn’t take long before both killers come after Giglio.
It took nearly thirty years for W.A.V.E. founder Gary Whitson to concoct this sequel to Bloody Creek. While I think this is a slight improvement over the original, that doesn’t exactly make it “good”. The big problem is that even with a relatively short seventy-five-minute running time, it drags considerably. I mean if you ever wanted to watch a couple put up a tent in real time, then this is the movie for you. The ending is rather laborious too as Whitson piles on twist after twist with more killers being revealed than a Scream sequel.
If you’re a fan of the W.A.V.E. method of filmmaking, it will go down smooth enough. W.A.V.E. starlet Giglio gamely carries the movie and Debbie D is memorable as a forest ranger who gets strangled while topless. Jacqueline Che and John Coulter give the best performances though as a pair of religious farmers who live on the property adjacent to the creek and want to keep “fornicators” off their land.
The deaths are decent. One victim is stabbed with a pitchfork, another is drowned, and as with the original, one of the best death scenes winds up being a dream. You also might get a laugh from the “corpses” that move when they’re supposed to be dead.
The biggest laugh is reserved for the hilariously bad CGI decapitation. You know, it’s strange. Whitson made a similar scene in the original that used much more antiquated techniques, and it looked so much better than this. The greenscreen effects to make it look like the cops are at the police station are pretty bad too.
I think the most amusing part though comes when Giglio accidentally falls out of a raft and into the creek. They obviously didn’t have time to do another take, so they just rolled with it. Sometimes in a movie like this, it’s the happy accidents that are the most entertaining.
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