Tom
Komisar and Daniel Murphy are back at it again. The clown masks from
"House of Whores" were barely back to room temperature and these
deviants, along with AC McCray and Peter Barnone, are suited up and home-invading
their way through more unsuspecting victims in this latest installment from
HM&M Films.
Kinda/sorta picking up from the first
film, this time the torture happy gang of miscreants target a suburban family's
birthday party (with Linda Schrader as "Kayla the Corpse" in tow) and
a televangelist & his gold digging girlfriends (Cheyanne Summer and Montana
Skylar).
Much like the first film, HoW2 is thin
on plot, but long on depravity. It's all covered: ball peen hammer assaults,
terrible jokes, sex toys, lactation gags, even a "Dirty Sanchez", as
well as all manner of atrocities visited upon porn star Riley Grey in comedic
interludes. HoW2 also features more musical vignettes with horror/music
personality Nurse Hatchet, suitably taken to the next level for this outing,
that are both psychedelic and sexy as Hell. Actress Lindsey McIntire, another
veteran from the first film, turns up this time as "Skanko", the
sadistic clowns' new sidekick, complete with an ultra creepy sex doll mask and
the ability to shoot lasers from her...well...you'll just have to watch the
film. This crime scene of an indie feature also boasts the talents of: Craig
Lemons, the very hot Vergena Fields, and Eric Reaume as the pizza boy (didn't really need to see your ass, man).
While a "franchise" like
this may not be feasible beyond this second installment (but hey, never say
never, right?), HoW2 hits all the right nerves and manages to be even more mean
spirited and dark than it's predecessor. Definitely a guilty pleasure that
often makes you feel terrible for enjoying the goings on, the flick sometimes
even brings to mind the cult classic "August Underground" series of
films, with it's "found footage" style, and gleeful violence. This
stuff makes Pennywise look like a pussy!
A bold new style of "Torture
porn" or just a bunch of knuckleheads vicariously living through the
righteously fucked up films they're making? You be the judge as you wallow
waist deep into the quagmire of unspeakable acts (along with quite a few bodily
fluids) splattered across your screen in "House of Whores 2: The Second
Cumming"! Consider this your warning.
8.5/10
---Scream
King Tom
