Seven years after the rather good adaptation of King "The Mangler", director Tobe Hooper refused to direct the "sequel". It is not surprising, because such a scenario would be rejected by anyone who has any self-respect. The movie is at least a class below the worst installments of the "Scary Movie" franchise, without being a parody, but a film that takes itself seriously. It is so bad and in such a way that it cannot pass either as "so bad it is good" or as a guilty pleasure. This is just plain and simple miserable on all fronts, to the point of exhaustion, and accompanied by unbearably irritating music. Right now I can't think of a single movie that has a worse soundtrack. Do I even need to mention that it has nothing to do with King... Ok, the girls aren't that bad (one is half-naked for almost the whole movie), but everything else is. Why Lance Henriksen agreed to play in this movie and how this script was even approved for production is beyond me. It says Horror/Sci-Fi... true, it's fantastically scary how I wasted an hour and a half of my life.
2,5/10.
2,5/10.