"Sometimes They Come Back...For More" is a really underrated entry in the series.
**SPOILERS**
After losing contact, Captain Sam Cage, (Clayton Rohner) and Major Callie O'Grady, (Chase Masterson) arrive at the Antarctic research station Erebus and look into the facility. Only able to find Dr. Jennifer Wells, (Faith Ford) and Lieutenant Shebanski, (Max Perlich) they tell them what happened to the rest of the crew at the station. Bunkered down for the night, the frozen bodies of the dead members start disappearing and when they reappear, they attacked the remaining survivors and slowly whittle down the group. Trying to find out what has happened, they find that a cult of Devil worshipers are at the base and using it as a launching pad to bring an ancient demon back to life. Forced to defend themselves against the remaining crew, they try to get it under control before the cult is able to complete it's mission.
The Good News: This one here isn't all that bad when it gets going. Once this gets going at the end, it has a lot to offer it. There's a really spectacular section where the action is seen through the eyes of a remote-controlled camera car running through the facility, which features a couple really nice stunts and several suspenseful moments, especially when it comes down to the sequence where they discover the Satanic Altar. That is a really creepy scene that gets some good points going for it, and it ends with the film's one true jump scene. That soon leads into a really great brawl that gets in some pretty nice fighting. It flows along nicely and has some fun along the way. There's even some really great deaths as the result of the this, including some really gory gunshots, a pickax in the chest, speared through the back with a harpoon, stabbed in the back with a huge butcher knife and there's even a few who get frozen solid. These here are all quite fun, and get the film going along nicely. It even manages to get in some outstanding creepy scenes before the film gets going. The big one is a chilling scene where footsteps are heard overhead and they are forced to follow it from below using only the sounds made, and from there it soon becomes apparent that there's someone out there, only it's unknown at the point what it is. Several of the body disappearances do work, and the mystery about what's going on at the place is handled quite well. This one is pretty creepy at times and is a really nice plus for the film as well.
The Bad News: This one doesn't have a lot of problems, but instead has a couple of really big flaws. One is that this one really comes across as a low-concept remake of another, really easily noticeable classic in the genre. From the Arctic location, the cast who don't get along and the mysteriously disappearing and then reanimated later are all quite easily ones to be found in here. This here really makes the film feel really unoriginal and it makes the film feel really cheap, which is the film's other big flaw. There's never an opportunity where this one doesn't feel like a giant underground station, or even a sense of space here. It feels way too cramped in, and this hardly looks like a place where a lot of people could've been stationed in with much of a sense that it's there for everyone. The cheapness extends to several other big areas, and really does make this one feel like a big flaw at times. The last flaw is that there's hardly any need for the back-story of the film. It takes away from the flow and momentum it has and becomes distracting. Otherwise, there isn't much wrong with it.
The Final Verdict: Even though this one isn't anywhere near original and comes off as a clone of another film, this is still a rewarding experience at times. Really recommended to those who enjoyed the others, while those aren't that big on these kind will probably find this one to be quite painful to sit through.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity
**SPOILERS**
After losing contact, Captain Sam Cage, (Clayton Rohner) and Major Callie O'Grady, (Chase Masterson) arrive at the Antarctic research station Erebus and look into the facility. Only able to find Dr. Jennifer Wells, (Faith Ford) and Lieutenant Shebanski, (Max Perlich) they tell them what happened to the rest of the crew at the station. Bunkered down for the night, the frozen bodies of the dead members start disappearing and when they reappear, they attacked the remaining survivors and slowly whittle down the group. Trying to find out what has happened, they find that a cult of Devil worshipers are at the base and using it as a launching pad to bring an ancient demon back to life. Forced to defend themselves against the remaining crew, they try to get it under control before the cult is able to complete it's mission.
The Good News: This one here isn't all that bad when it gets going. Once this gets going at the end, it has a lot to offer it. There's a really spectacular section where the action is seen through the eyes of a remote-controlled camera car running through the facility, which features a couple really nice stunts and several suspenseful moments, especially when it comes down to the sequence where they discover the Satanic Altar. That is a really creepy scene that gets some good points going for it, and it ends with the film's one true jump scene. That soon leads into a really great brawl that gets in some pretty nice fighting. It flows along nicely and has some fun along the way. There's even some really great deaths as the result of the this, including some really gory gunshots, a pickax in the chest, speared through the back with a harpoon, stabbed in the back with a huge butcher knife and there's even a few who get frozen solid. These here are all quite fun, and get the film going along nicely. It even manages to get in some outstanding creepy scenes before the film gets going. The big one is a chilling scene where footsteps are heard overhead and they are forced to follow it from below using only the sounds made, and from there it soon becomes apparent that there's someone out there, only it's unknown at the point what it is. Several of the body disappearances do work, and the mystery about what's going on at the place is handled quite well. This one is pretty creepy at times and is a really nice plus for the film as well.
The Bad News: This one doesn't have a lot of problems, but instead has a couple of really big flaws. One is that this one really comes across as a low-concept remake of another, really easily noticeable classic in the genre. From the Arctic location, the cast who don't get along and the mysteriously disappearing and then reanimated later are all quite easily ones to be found in here. This here really makes the film feel really unoriginal and it makes the film feel really cheap, which is the film's other big flaw. There's never an opportunity where this one doesn't feel like a giant underground station, or even a sense of space here. It feels way too cramped in, and this hardly looks like a place where a lot of people could've been stationed in with much of a sense that it's there for everyone. The cheapness extends to several other big areas, and really does make this one feel like a big flaw at times. The last flaw is that there's hardly any need for the back-story of the film. It takes away from the flow and momentum it has and becomes distracting. Otherwise, there isn't much wrong with it.
The Final Verdict: Even though this one isn't anywhere near original and comes off as a clone of another film, this is still a rewarding experience at times. Really recommended to those who enjoyed the others, while those aren't that big on these kind will probably find this one to be quite painful to sit through.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity