jlthornb51 This is a worthy sequel to the original nail biter and a superbly frightening film in its own right. With an original script full of scares by Glenn Hobart, Andy Hurst, and Ross Helford, the movie moves along at a very fast pace with hardly a dull moment. The direction is by the visionary Keith Samples and once again he does not disappoint when he is at the helm. He gives the story a disturbing atmosphere and uses his camera like a sculptor a chisel. What is truly outstanding about this small film are the performances of the female leads. Kristen Miller, Allison Lange, Brooke Burns, and Tracey McCall are extraordinary actors. Not only do they give this film sensuality and fire, they are all lovely and the camera loves them. Miller is particularly striking and uniquely gifted. In the role of Holly Parker she is nothing less than superb and gives a very memorable performance indeed. It's virtually impossible to take one's eyes off screen whenever she appears and she has that certain quality that few actresses now days possess. It is an easy prediction that we will see her in the near future accepting a gold statuette. With a fine director, a strongly structured, surprising script, and some of the best actresses to step before a camera in years, this is an underrated gem and one motion picture that demands to be seen.

Enchorde Recap: Two career-minded young and successful women, Holly and Jan, live together but compete for everything. The promotion at the job and even more importantly perhaps, boyfriends. No rules apply and Holly flees the apartment after Jan tricked her out of town during a important business meeting and then seduced Holly's new boyfriend. Holly moves in with Tess, a vulnerable young woman that soon take a liking to Holly. Too much perhaps, because soon Tess copies Holly clothes, hair color and starts appearing at her job. All the while Tess tries to force Holly to break with her former friend Tess seem more and more manipulative.Comments: A rather poor attempt to make a psychological thriller. Unfortunately it seems they forgot to bring the psychological element and seem content that the audience will keep watching just because all the leads are young and beautiful actresses. It doesn't work.To add a psychological level to any movie you need suspense to go with some really well written and developed characters. Relationships need to be given time to be established and to evolve slowly, to seem really plausible. This movie gives the opposite. There is no depth to the characters. Each and every one of the three leads are shallow, manipulative egoistic and it is hard to sympathize even with the heroine. Neither of them is very friendly, even to their good friends. Also the relationships develop without cause or explanation, it looks more like temporary alliances and feuds that start and end with a single word.The story is also predictable on a level that even the heroine should see what is happening. It annoys me that she suddenly trusts her new roommate (Tess), whom she has known all of a few days, more than old friends when Tess accuses them of having tried to take advantage of her. Why would she do that if she had any real connection with any other person? No, this movie doesn't work, at all. Sure, I can see that the women are beautiful, but that doesn't make a movie. And it is far too little when you try to build something deep and intriguing out of thin air.3/10

anxietyresister Does the director of Single White Female 2 have an underwear fetish? Every five minutes there seemed to be a scene with a sexy woman walking around in her lingerie. I counted about six different colours too! Victoria's Secrets must have bankrolled the film for product placement. Not just that, but he takes every opportunity to show these nubile young things bending down or standing at an angle to get the highest ratio of cleavage. Yet, when it comes to delivering the goods, by delivering the whole boob experience, he chickens out and instead gives us a selection of body doubles or back shots. The only nude scenes in the entire movie are in a club for perverts, as tied-up extra get whipped, violated or abused in other ways. Nice.What? You wonder why a spent a whole paragraph discussing the finer points of on-screen nakedness? Because it's a distraction from having to write about the rest of the film. If you've seen the original, you'd think this has a similar plot: A nice, normal girl is going to move in with a deranged lady (The clue's in the title) who slowly takes over her flatmate's life, while simultaneously slaughtering her new flatmate's friends one by one. Correct, but with just one exception. The nice girl in part II is not a very nice person. In fact, she's downright despicable. She lies to her friends, she breaks personal belongings then denies it, she unlocks boxes containing cherished possessions to have a look inside, and yes, she is a total bitch. Any right minded person would love to see her get a comeuppance. Bridget Fonda she ain't.So, besides her and the mad, pensioner-murdering, nurse roomie, is there anybody else in this cocktail of bad acting and materialistic values to root for? Well, there's the main protagonist's slutty best friend who seems to be an exact copy of her dreadful mate.. only difference is one's a redhead, the other's locks are black. They work at a PR firm together, and their competitiveness in being the first to get a promotion is completely boring to everyone at home. Then there's the dopey hunk of a boyfriend who comes between these two bimbos.. he leaves so little impression in the picture he might as well stand there in his striped boxer shorts scratching his butt while the gals fight it out. If anyone looks like they just wondered in from a GAP ad, it's him. I DID enjoy the performance of the girl's boss at the company, sadly his acerbic wit only livens up a handful of scenes.. then it's back to the bitchiness and general air of tedium that set the tone for the rest of the movie.Not only are 95% of the people featured here incredibly irritating, they are also extremely stupid. Why is there blood on the floor? Why, the workman cut his hand while trying to fix something and he's just gone to the hospital! Of course I believe you! Next, I think I'll drink this wine given to me by someone I suspect is borderline insane. Is it drugged? Certainly not!! Then, we have the big treasure chest which conveniently contains news clippings about every victim the villianess has ever murdered, as well as her life history, discovered by the 'heroine'. So much for covering up the evidence. The class of serial killers just ain't wot it used to be. Still, at least this gives audience members who haven't been watching for the last hour a chance to catch up with the storyline. Oh and yes, I am being sarcastic. DUH!Finally, we have the predictable HUGE CLIMAX between the two women, though why anybody would bother to cut the main phone line so the other party can't summon help with the surfeit of mobiles in America in 2005 is a mystery to me. It works, though. Strange, that she's had her Nokia with her in every scene other than that one. Much hysterical shrieking, pseudo-lesbianism and gratuitous throat slashing of black police officers ensues, until finally the torture is over and we can all go home. And no, I don't means the torment endured by the local constabulary at knife-point. Straight To DVD should have meant Straight To The Bin in this case. YUCK! 2/10

a_humble_movie_lover what was this?why was this made? and more importantly, why did I waste my precious 2hours and £1.50 on this? the movie is about 2 girls sharing a flat, having a fight (over a man+job) one moving out and right into the "Psycho" girl's life. the psycho girl falls in love, gets obsessed with her new roomie/best friend and tries to eliminate everyone, including the love of her life. yaaawn.this movie has NOTHING. the "thrilling" scenes don't thrill; the sexy scenes don't make you hot and you're not scared by anything. the acting is lame, to put it very mildly. the plot thin and direction weak.do not even go anywhere NEAR SWF2. I liked SWF because I did encounter a person like that in life, and thought the sequel won't be THAT bad. but it was. and worse.