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Good sequel
I disagree that this is better than the original. The original is the classic, with more of everything: more monster, more nudity, etc. But this is still an excellent film. This one explores the monster's origins. The monster keeps switching back and forth from the monster to a hot chick. This got re-released on DVD it's still in demand. I'm very partial to the original, but this is very good.

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memories...
If I remember correctly this movie had lots and lots of nudity in it and I had to walk 16 miles to the video store and back (I was 12) to rent this and Hellraiser. You kids should go see it too. *wink wink*

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Better Than Its Predecessor
Not exactly Lovecraft, but quite true to his spirit.

This very well-made sequel picks up exactly where the first film left off: Miskatonic College student Randolph Carter and his best friend, Howard (Phillips Lovecraft, no doubt), are the only survivors to walk out of a haunted house, carrying with them its hidden treasure - the famed ultra-rare Necronomicon, by Abd al-Hazred. They alone know what killed the other college students in that house, a conjured demon from the seventeenth century that has now been safely contained by the Necronomicon's sorcery somewhere in tunnels beneath the local graveyard. Concerned that the demon might ultimately escape again and wreak more havoc, Howard and Randolph and sympathetic magic researcher John Rhys-Davies track the imprisoned female demon to her lair, and manage to exorcize her, freeing her host (the original 17th century conjurer's daughter), who takes a liking to Carter. Unfortunately, the released demon is now twice as nasty (not to mention twice as ugly), and hunts her host woman down to repossess her, savagely killing anyone who gets in her way.

This one performs like Dean Koontz reads, with a plot similar to his famous novel, Watchers, but with more friendly humor. Writer-director Jean-Paul Ouelette is an Orson Welles protege, and knows how to keep the pace flying while providing a real visual feast with the camera. The cast, which also includes David Warner as a cannily secretive college dean and Peter Breck as a homicide cop in over his head, is terrific, and the production - especially for direct-to-video fare - is surprisingly good. The actresses playing the two halves of the demon-girl (one of them being Julie Strain, in a lot of really believably scary makeup) are especially good.

Colorful, generally pretty exciting, consistently entertaining. Good stuff.