ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011)

Such a frustrating disappointment

just watch it!

Excellent, a Must See

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I will watch slasher movies, however, I do not really take a particular interest in them. They always seem to be the same: High body counts, lots of blood spilled, and no explanation as to why the killer is so pyst off. If you are diving into this without watching the 2009 film, I can save you some time. There is a brutal killer, and many savage slayings. Okay, so you are all up to date...now we move on to Laid To Rest 2. After being nearly destroyed at the end of the original, we find our killer revived by a team of specialists who graphically sew and put him back together. All of these scenes are incredibly graphic, and insanely gruesome to watch. If you can't handle this, then I suggest something else for you to view, because this movie makes the previous movie look like G rated material. You are so welcome for the warning. The warning should not be taken lightly, as this whack job just seems angrier then ever...which is never explained. It's also never explained why this unknown team revives him from the dead, I mean, are they perfectly happy with the thought that he is savagely tearing innocent people apart limb by limb? Is this some sort of unknown company trying to keep the general population under control?? That's never explained. Sweet and to the point, nothing is explained. I would personally like an explanation on why we need a 15 second scene of a camera panning down a females chest while she's taking a shower, is that really necessary? Is this sequel even necessary? I think not, and I regret to tell you, there is a Laid To Rest 3 in the making at the time of this review, so big spoiler here: If you are expecting the killer to be thrown into a wood chipper at the end where he belongs, you are going to be let down. I really can't see why any one will want to watch this, however, if you are a gore hound, you will have the time of your life with this one. The unrated release of this film easily boosts it way beyond the realms of the NC17 rating. Heads and bodies are disturbingly torn, slashed, and impaled in insanely vivid detail. My problem with the movie, aside from the fact that nothing is explained, is the fact that ( and some may disagree) it is possible to make a movie that is way too violent. I could get on one bent knee, and beg you to please not watch this movie, but it will be clearly up to you weather you want to do so or not. I think it is a needless sequel, and I cannot stress this enough. There's really nothing left to review on this one, I mean, the gore is off the charts, the body count is too high to count, and there is little to no story to tell. If you are looking for a great slasher movie, you may want to check out Severance...and under no circumstances will I EVER give a slasher film more then 7 stars, and I will have you to know Severance earned a 7 star rating from me. It's well written, has a story, good gore, and even some quotable lines...and one very funny scene that makes me giggle just thinking of it. As far as Chromeskull...hey, it's not Friday the 13th, this guy is worse then Jason. Hopefully they keep this excuse for a movie a trilogy, and doesn't spawn more parts then an automobile like Friday the 13th did.

I know that I enjoyed the original Laid to Rest for its sheer enthusiasm and spectacularly OTT gore, but I can recall very little about the actual plot, despite having only seen it a year ago; perhaps that's because there wasn't much of a story to remember in the first place (the lack of strong narrative clearly didn't matter too much to me: I gave the first film a rating of 7.5/10).Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 is just as eager to please in terms of bloody mayhem, and does so brilliantly with oodles of really mean-spirited and excellently executed gore, but this time around the film-makers also try to build on Chromeskull's character, and it is here that the film comes apart quicker than one of the killer's victims. While a bit of back-story mightn't have been so bad, what we are presented with here is so overblown, convoluted, and incomprehensible that it only serves to confuse and irritate in the extreme.The film opens abruptly with no recap of previous events, immediately launching into the unnecessarily complex nonsense that passes for a plot, in which a secret organisation is revealed to be behind the work of our metal mask-wearing maniac. With a script even messier than one of Chromeskull's kills, the viewer is simply left with too many unanswered questions—Who are these characters? What is the nefarious organisation hoping to achieve? Why are the police so f•••ing inept? Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to hire Danielle Harris (she was in the extremely disappointing sequel to Hatchet too!)? It all adds up to a very frustrating and frankly rather tedious experience.If director Robert Hall proceeds with his intended third and final Laid to Rest film, I really hope that he succeeds in explaining matters in a satisfying manner; simply drenching proceedings with buckets of really nasty knife action just won't cut it next time.I rate Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 a 9/10 for the sterling work of the effects guys, but 1/10 for everything else (resulting in a disappointing average of 5/10).

The movie continues where the first "Laid to Rest" movie ended. But that doesn't mean it's a straight continuation. The surviving characters from part 1 are back on duty, but quite a lot of new characters are introduced as well. Danielle Harris is one of them, though her role is not that big (no pun intended). Brian Austin Green actually has the biggest part and he obviously has the most fun. He almost steals the movie from Chromeskull himself.The detectives are almost a letdown, but I liked that they were going in a different direction this time around. It might alienate a few fans of the first movie, but the director already stated, that he didn't want to do the same thing over again. FX are top notch again and an actor from part 1 cameos in this too, but plays a different character. As Nick Principe (Chromeskull himself) said at a convention: He pulled a Clark Kent (you'll get it, if you watch both movies). I am curious to see, where they'll go for the next chapter (Nick isn't that fond of an outer space scenario if I'm not mistaken ;o) ).

Growing up in the 80s i was subjected to all the classic slasher horror films, Friday the 13th....nightmare on elm street.....Halloween......and so on. However through the 90s we had very little to be pleased with in the slasher department. A ghost face killer from Scream or The guy off the Fishsticks box cover with a meat hook from I know what you did last summer. However ROBERT HALL busted onto what seemed like a dying genre and gave it a new era ushering in the next age of slashers with his Character CHROMESKULL!!! ChromeSkull : Laid to rest 2 was truly well done.....it wasn't an over kill film with a bad story line....it didn't use excessive blood and gore and tits and ass in it to keep the viewers attention. Chromeskull played by Nick Principe was backed with a stellar cast containing Thomas Dekker.....Brian Austin Green.....Mimi Michaels....and Angelina Armani along with Brett Wagner and Danielle Harris to just name a few.Brian Austin green gave the performance of his life in this film. For me only knowing him as David silver from Beverly hills 90210 to seeing him in this he carried the film to the instant cult classic it will become. Nick Principe who plays ChromeSkull is truly an instant icon of today. He will soon be ranked alongside Freddy and Jason and Michael myers. The man plays the character brilliantly.The story was truly a step up from the first film and the kill scenes are truly amazing in this film. As a self proclaimed gore hound i couldn't be happier with Angelina Armani's performance and Death in the film. All around phenomenal spfx by Robert Hall and his Team at ALMOST HUMAN.Robert Hall truly did a Hell of job on this film and it truly shows this time around, i personally believe this film along with the chrome skull character will be iconic in the horror community and genre.