Congratulations, John - you ve succeeded with competent direction. If only you had been awarded a script that wasn t spectacularly dumb, along with anything additional that would make the viewers devotion of time and money worthwhile. A horror movie, of course. Like the first, the setting is a college. The students are all competing to capture the prestigious Hitchcock Award, which, it is stated, guarantees a directing gig in Hollywood .
People start to die.
The idea had crossed my mind. The characters have all the depth of a backyard paddling pool - a demerit that s expected. Otherwise, one of the only characters I began to like gets bludgeoned to death with a camera lens. The killer here looks positively goofy, stalking his teenage prey in a fencing mask. This new costume generates an excess of unintentional humor.