Agreeing to travel to Scotland on a missionary trip, a Christian couple finds that their host family is part of a clan that practices Pagan rituals and worship that are intending on using them for one of their next ceremonies forcing them to fight them off in order to escape alive.
This here was a really poor and rather frustrating sequel that doesn't really have as much going for it as its predecessor. One of the film's main flaws is the fact it seems quite scattershot in its approach with the inherent inability to really get itself in a groove as to where it wants to go. This is due to several factors here that come from a wide range of sources within the film, whether this is about the pagan society or the different customs on the island corrupting the couple. Both of these elements are explored here and it's rather frustrating to get tied up in nonsensical discussions about the blame for their situation since this one places either scenario as a possible culprit. The one explanation given isn't anything to really get worked up over, either, as it's just plain idiotic, as the implication that the power plant run-off is directly responsible for their condition and thus requires the sacrificial ceremony take place using them is not only an incredibly ludicrous jump of logic to make but also seems to fly in the face of what happen before, though even taking it on its own terms it's not that great and takes away from the films' connection to the original as well. This makes the film wander around a lot in the first hour and showing them experiencing the different ways of life there or showcasing how the locals live, never once preparing for the ceremony, what exactly it entails or why the whole affair is to go down that makes this one so dull and boring by not having anything going on. It'd mean one thing if that set-up anything later on when they finally get to the ceremony to have some horror elements featured before to get this going, yet there's nothing like that attempted here. While these here are what keep this one down, there's are a few positives featured here as despite being bogged down with a dreary pace, that really only gets interrupted in the final minutes which has some of the best features where it's all kinds of suspenseful action from the horse chase through the countryside that goes concurrently with her struggles against the family henchmen's attempts to grab her for their ceremonial preparations that are far creepier than expected here as the villagers' strange antics chasing after her and then preparing for the big conflagration at the castle as well as the darker twist at the end. However, for the most part, this only has bounteous nudity to get it going, leaving this one a colossal disappointment.
Rated R: Full Nudity, Graphic Language, Violence and a sex scene.
This here was a really poor and rather frustrating sequel that doesn't really have as much going for it as its predecessor. One of the film's main flaws is the fact it seems quite scattershot in its approach with the inherent inability to really get itself in a groove as to where it wants to go. This is due to several factors here that come from a wide range of sources within the film, whether this is about the pagan society or the different customs on the island corrupting the couple. Both of these elements are explored here and it's rather frustrating to get tied up in nonsensical discussions about the blame for their situation since this one places either scenario as a possible culprit. The one explanation given isn't anything to really get worked up over, either, as it's just plain idiotic, as the implication that the power plant run-off is directly responsible for their condition and thus requires the sacrificial ceremony take place using them is not only an incredibly ludicrous jump of logic to make but also seems to fly in the face of what happen before, though even taking it on its own terms it's not that great and takes away from the films' connection to the original as well. This makes the film wander around a lot in the first hour and showing them experiencing the different ways of life there or showcasing how the locals live, never once preparing for the ceremony, what exactly it entails or why the whole affair is to go down that makes this one so dull and boring by not having anything going on. It'd mean one thing if that set-up anything later on when they finally get to the ceremony to have some horror elements featured before to get this going, yet there's nothing like that attempted here. While these here are what keep this one down, there's are a few positives featured here as despite being bogged down with a dreary pace, that really only gets interrupted in the final minutes which has some of the best features where it's all kinds of suspenseful action from the horse chase through the countryside that goes concurrently with her struggles against the family henchmen's attempts to grab her for their ceremonial preparations that are far creepier than expected here as the villagers' strange antics chasing after her and then preparing for the big conflagration at the castle as well as the darker twist at the end. However, for the most part, this only has bounteous nudity to get it going, leaving this one a colossal disappointment.
Rated R: Full Nudity, Graphic Language, Violence and a sex scene.