This movie has really no excuse for existing what so ever. Last time I checked, telephone numbers didn’t have sequels, and neither should bad movies.
Picking up some amount of time after the first movie (4 years in the real world), a rash of murders have taken place in a small college town. The prime suspect in the murders is the Dean of the local college, Professor Grubeck. Grubeck is taken into custody on the strength of a drunk’s eye witness testimony. As things really start to get weird, Spike (who you probably don’t remember from the first movie) rolls into town and begins to investigate the strange happenings.
It turns out that Grubeck has been using a horoscope number (976-EVIL) to gain power. He uses his new power to at first, kill the prime witness in his case. Then he goes on to murder the prosecuting attorney, and attempts to kill others. Good ol’ Spike comes to the rescue, and I guess things are all good at the end. Also, I forgot that Brigitte Nielsen was in this one.
The first 976-Evil was pretty thin on plot, but this one seems to forget that it even existed. Spike is introduced in the sequel, but he is never really given a proper introduction. Coming four years after the first, it would a stretch to think that someone would remember or even care about the fiction. I know it’s a horror movie, but it’s way more creepy than it should be that a Professor is trying to get with a student. The one joke that stands out in my mind is the “walk this way” thing, and that Spike refers to Brigitte Nielsen as “Elvira on steroids”. That’s a pretty apt description.
The special effects in 976-Evil 2 are ok, I guess for the 90’s. There is a pretty good bit at the end involving a spin on “It’s A Wonderful Life” that still stands up.The rest falls in line with 80s-90s horror movies. Kids know some shit went down, but the parents don’t believe it. Hot girls in tight acid washed jeans and frizzed hair. Also, lots of french fries. People are introduced, and killed, for no reason what so ever. Once again this is one of those movies however, that didn’t deserve a sequel. The first one ended with the reveal that the 976-EVIL number was run by a machine basically in a storage unit. So does that mean that Satan has a call center of automated machines answering his calls? I dunno. At least by the end of this one Spike is dead.
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