Night of the Truly Bad Living Horror Sequels: You know those days where you feel like watching stupid movies. So tonight I rented two of the worst sequels ever made of horror movies.

First up was Book of Shadows, Blair Witch 2. I'm not sure what to say about this movie since I'm really not clear what it was about. I think the biggest problem with it is that it tried too too too hard to be hip and cool and ended up lacking the coolness it desired. There just seemed to be too too too many scenes where they were trying to make "a classic moment," or something to that effect and ended up with some kind of bland stupidity. It reminded me of that Simpsons episode where they try to improve on the "Itchy and Scratchy" cartoon by bringing in the hip hip hip dog Poochie who was so overwritten and overdone that he turned out to be the opposite of what they were hoping for. Sad waste of time. More sad is that I'm just not clear what it was supposed to be.

Second Bad Living Horror Sequel was Urban Legend 2, Final Cut. This movie seemed to be splicing together various movies, concepts, and ideas without any focus on the whole. It got to be so bad that at one point there a night scene with a snow storm and then the next day it's warm and sunny out with no signs of snow. Various players in the movie seemed to have no relation to the others, but just thrown in to find someone else to kill. And the story, what there was, simply made no sense whatsoever. This movie truly was thrown together in really a pathetic, sloppy way that it should be used for film students as an example of bad "movie-making" in every sense of the word. I will say that it kept my attention throughout, but mostly just because I kept wondering what was going on and just kinda tried to finish the ride. It was not, by the way, a traditional sequel in that it had little to do with the first movie, but a few characters came cropping up for some kind of nostalgia effect. The sad sad sad part of this is that it could have been made interesting if they had simply focused on what they were doing. They seemed to be trying to fulfill several different movie ideas into one film and it was all just splotched together in an attempt to make a full movie.

Oh well, this is what I get for renting two movies I knew would be bad. But one good thing about watching bad movies occasionally is that I often end up thinking a lot about movies in general; how they are made; plots, direction, and acting; and it helps to appreciate better made movies.