Lame follow up features several lengthy flashback sequences to pad out the film's run time to barely 90 minutes ( 85 minutes, without the opening narrative, and closing credits )
A group of dirt-bike racing morons (using some type of experimental gasoline created by survivor of the first film, for his obligatory cameo) take a shortcut through the desert, on their way to a motor-cross competition in the desert. When their bus breaks down, they end up in the same area where the first film took place, and are set upon by two survivors of the cannibal family from the earlier film.
I do not believe this ever had any type of proper film score written and recorded for it. It genuinely sounds like they just simply bought the soundtrack albums to the first few Friday the 13th films, and dubbed that in. I don't mean that it sounds similar, or it sounds like someone re- recorded the score. No, I mean that it sounds identical, like we're watching this movie while the Friday the 13th soundtrack album is playing in the background.
I don't have the same hatred for this film that a lot of fans of the original have. It isn't as great as the original, but it's also not quite as bad as some reviewers have said. It's just completely mediocre. The neolithic looking desert is still creepy as hell, a foot chase through the rocky cliffs between a couple of the bikers and Pluto is good also, and a couple of other good scenes are scattered throughout, but that can't hide the fact that, for all its explosions and chases, there's really just not a lot going on here, and there is surprisingly little tension or bloodshed. This film's naming The Reaper as the mutants' father contradicts the first film entirety, ( Papa Jupiter was their father in the original )
A group of dirt-bike racing morons (using some type of experimental gasoline created by survivor of the first film, for his obligatory cameo) take a shortcut through the desert, on their way to a motor-cross competition in the desert. When their bus breaks down, they end up in the same area where the first film took place, and are set upon by two survivors of the cannibal family from the earlier film.
I do not believe this ever had any type of proper film score written and recorded for it. It genuinely sounds like they just simply bought the soundtrack albums to the first few Friday the 13th films, and dubbed that in. I don't mean that it sounds similar, or it sounds like someone re- recorded the score. No, I mean that it sounds identical, like we're watching this movie while the Friday the 13th soundtrack album is playing in the background.
I don't have the same hatred for this film that a lot of fans of the original have. It isn't as great as the original, but it's also not quite as bad as some reviewers have said. It's just completely mediocre. The neolithic looking desert is still creepy as hell, a foot chase through the rocky cliffs between a couple of the bikers and Pluto is good also, and a couple of other good scenes are scattered throughout, but that can't hide the fact that, for all its explosions and chases, there's really just not a lot going on here, and there is surprisingly little tension or bloodshed. This film's naming The Reaper as the mutants' father contradicts the first film entirety, ( Papa Jupiter was their father in the original )