This you saw in the trailer, but our story begins with a bald dude, who kind of looks like Powder with glasses and hat, driving on a desert road. He stops to pick up a drifter, and while chatting, a comment is made about the Death Valley Drifter, so seeming unsure of his initial intent, he leaves the guy hanging and drives away. About a block up, he stops and decides to back up, but not to let the guy in, but to run him over. With his half-mangled body on the pavement, he then drives forward, stops his front tire on his chest, and then takes his tongue as a souvenir. It just so happens that when he drives past a motorcycle cop, his hubcap, drenched in blood, goes rolling off it’s wheel. So, Johnny Law follows him to his carcass shack and attempts to arrest him, but after cuffing him, and then going back outside to get a breath of fresh air (from the smell of rotting body parts), he comes back in to see that he’s sawed off his hand (still in the cuff) and is nowhere to be seen. But, Kojak lets Mr. Deputy take him in, and after some psychoanalysis, where he claims he hears voices, he’s taken to the gas chamber.
Apparently, the gas chamber acted as teleporter, because Powder is transported back to his dwelling. Now, 30 years later, he resurfaces, but not before there’s a shoot out between two casino robbers and the sheriff, an explosion, and a fake hostage situation. There’s also some kind of invisible barrier that keeps them from getting out, and so The Reeker continues to dismember bodies in his shack, plinking them off one by one. One thing’s for sure, when you smell the funk, something’s about to go down.
Of course, the story ends setting it up for another one, which could be the Reeker, since this could act as a prequel, or No Man's Land 2: The Fall of Reeker aka Reeker 3. Some ridiculous CGI took away from this flick, but with a few moments of humor, like when a plastic bag is placed over a guys head wound, or should I say, the top of his head and nose were gone, and when the cop tries to get through the barrier, and takes a running start and barrels into it, only to fall to the ground in failure, and when the lower half of a guy's body goes running away from a motel room. These were the highlights of the film, since the kill and gore scenes weren’t great, there was no nudity, and the character development was neither interesting, nor necessary.
There were several unexplained and far-fetched things too, like why would you put your hand in an overflowing toilet full of bloody water, or why would you plunge into a pool of poopy water, unless maybe your life depended on it, or why would some old dude in a hospital gown be hanging out at a desert-side motel? I just had to say WTF, yeah right, and NFW (out loud) when I saw this.
If you liked the Reeker, and were dying to tie up the loose ends, this is an okay feature, and is about as entertaining as the first, that is, minus one blind dude (who played in My So-Called Life). But, if you prefer a movie that doesn't seem to cater to a tween crowd, esp. with the ending, try your luck at Dance of the Dead, Last House in the Woods, or Trackman.
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OVERALL RATING--2.5-- |
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