Stars: Amy Yasbeck, Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark
Directed by: Ethan Wiley
Budget: around $3 million
OK so the second movie, the second story is quite literally a second story. With nothing to do with the last movie or Roger Cobb or even the same house. This film is a new story in a new haunted house, which is what i'm sure they were going for.
This film is even more zany and tongue in cheek than the last film, so far as to stray into total cheese-ball territory. Which in my eyes save the film from being a badly acted substandard film from a tired genre.
So we start off clearly in the past thanks to the hair styles and clothing with a mother and father seemingly protecting their baby. They are both killed by a shadowy killer cowboy who seems to be after some crystal skull. Despite them not really knowing he guns them down when they try to defend themselves.
Cut to a few years in the future now, Jesse (Ayre) has moved into the family mansion with his girlfriend. Not long after his oldest friend Charlie (Stark) gate crashes the house with his girlfriend.
Charlies girlfriend tries to get noticed by Jesse's as she's a record producer.
Jesse later goes through all the old stuff in the basement, spying a photo of his great great dead grandpa holding some kind of ancient Mayan crystal skull. There's also his GGGpa's business partner slim razor in the photo, surmising that the skull may be buried with his GGGPa dollar signs wrack up in Jesse's eyes. Him and Charlie then proceed to go exhume the skull from his grave.
No soon as they dig gramp's (a name he goes by later) up does his corpse spring to life and try to kill the two grave robbers. Only when he realizes that Jesse's family does he stop and take off a scary Mayan mask he was wearing.
Gramps had been waiting years for one of his family to come dig him up, the crystal skull aparantly giving him eternal life. But he thinks he's totally regenerated sparking one of the best movie lines ever when he realizes he's not.
Look at me. I'm a 170-year-old fart. I'm a goddamn zombie. He says looking at his reflection in the mirror. After a few hijinks he charges the two men with guarding the skull, this leads to many crazy things happening to the house such as a portal to some prehistoric era. Changing a room into a Mayan jungle and another of my favorite scenes.
Some electrician gets called in to fix a light, he's very accident prone though and when he's pulled the wires creating a massive hole in the wall he casually explains to Jesse and Charlie is: What you have there is a bonefide portal to another world, no worries i can deal with it (acting like this is normal occurrence, which makes it funnier)
Anyway Slim Razor eventually comes for the skull almost killing Gramp's, Jesse manages to stop him blowing his head off bit by bit.
Thats not even the ending despite me spoiling the first ones ending this one just needs to be seen to believe it. Despite the shoddy story and somewhat bad acting on some parts the comedic and fast pace of this film, coupled with some decent scenes both funny and serious make this a reasonably decent experience, at least once.
Oh and the caterdog is by far the cutest thing ever, thoroughly enjoyable i would have given it a 2 but a very strong 2 with a recommend to watch. Now i'd give it a good 3 after a second watching but this film deserves large gaps in between of repeated viewings i'd say.
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