**It would be much better with a minimally well done script.**
I liked the first film, and the truth is that I feel that this follow-up was not far behind, although the story told has no connection with that of the first film. For me, that's its main problem, because the other problems that exist, honestly, I think they were already expected.
Directed by Jeff Burr, the film has a cast of unknown actors, but who does what can be asked of them. They aren't brilliant, but I felt that most were sincere and committed to their work, being seriously hampered by the director's ineptitude and the stupidity of much of the dialogue and material they were given. In fact, with better material and better character development, the actors would have done a better job. The most prominent actor here is Andrew Robinson, in the role of the new local sheriff, but I also liked the work of Ami Dolenz and Steve Kanaly. The worst performances came from a histrionic Trevor Edmond, a Gloria Hendry who only says banalities and an Alexander Polinsky who doesn't seem to know what he's doing on stage.
The script is really the biggest problem of the whole movie. It's just a stupid story in which the devil is resurrected to avenge two deaths at once (perhaps it's a way for the devil to save on travel): an old woman who died in an accident that she herself is going to cause after an incident with some young people, and a disabled child who died many years earlier. It's an absurd story and I just couldn't accept it.
Technically, the film doesn't bring anything truly good either. The filming work is banal and uninteresting, and the cinematography and editing are amateurish. The scenarios are good, rural as in the first film, but the few visuals and specials work poorly and are not believable. The monster, for example, looks like a gangly puppet that growls and has difficulty walking. The deaths were very well-thought-out and some of them are quite graphic (a warning for the most sensitive), but it's a film that never warms up and makes us feel some tension. It's not even worth thinking about being afraid, it's better to avoid just not falling asleep.
