Angel of Darkness 2

Rating:
Summary: Over the top shock horror has some good moments
Review: The movie is a stylistic companion piece to the Evil Dead series, esp. Evil Dead 2. The setting is an isolated woodsy area where it just happens a nameless horror has been released. The cast seems mostly young and rather inexperienced. The effects work is cheap and rather cheesey. Sound familiar Raimi fans? The big compensation for such shortcomings is in the camer work. Lots of fast moving point of view tracks though the woods to create excitement and interesting shots with great back lighting effects, to create an effective sense of menace. This is key to any low budget horror. Closeups of cheap monster makeup are kept to a minimum, a very good thing. Low budgeters like this can slip over into laughable pretty fast. As a result this movie has some genuinely effect shock moments, more so than the usual Japanese horror.