Video Violence Part 2

1988 "...THE EXPLOITATION!"
Video Violence Part 2
4.6| 1h15m| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 1988 Released
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Howard and Eli have graduated from gruesome basement antics to pirating a cable TV channel for the purpose of furthering their brand of homegrown depravity, madness and murder. With the help of 'do-it-yourself' violence videos sent in by adoring fans and a beautiful guest actress unaware of the pain in store for her, the sadistic hosts guarantee the "Bloodiest Show on Earth!"

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TheExpatriate700 Video Violence has some hilarious scenes and a great premise, but it largely fails to deliver. Although a lot of enthusiasm clearly went into it, it suffers from significant problems with its pacing and writing. However, it benefits from some energetic performances.The film consists of an episode of a new show by Howard and Eli, murderers who like to broadcast their killings, and tapes of killings sent in. The film does not have a plot so much as it goes from one kill scene to another. This is not all bad, as there are some interesting kills.The problem is that the film also have a large amount of filler to get it up to barely feature length. Some of the murders drag out with too much dialogue, and not very good dialogue at that. The only thing that keeps this from a lower score is the enthusiasm of some of the performers, particularly the guys who play Howard and Eli. They know not to take this too seriously and ham it up.
Scarecrow-88 Howard and Eli return in this satiric sequel, as hosts of a pirate public access station snuff show where they mutilate and dismember special guests(..the guest on their show in this movie believes she's test screening for a role in a splatter movie)invited and unknowingly volunteering for their own destruction. Eli and Howard provide their bloodthirsty audience with a series of violent acts to this *actress* such as scissoring through her arm using the veins as a way to give the camera the finger, extracting her eyeball, removing her thumbs, etc. The show also has commercial breaks featuring recordings of murders to other victims including the damage inflicted on a victim tied to a home-made electric chair, what happens to a pizza boy thanks to three man-hating women who decide to kill for the first time, what employees and customers of a video store do to an outsider attempting to rent some movies(..nice use of saran wrap and a blow-drier for this particular girl), a newly hired employee at a grocery mart is used by her bosses as an example for their new experimental devices such as a slice'n'dicer that chops fingers into little pieces and a blood drainer if you have a taste for something different, and a little pet monster for sale who can kill your children if you are a tired parent looking to decrease the members in your family. Sicker, more twisted(..and more tedious and outlandish)sequel from writer/director Gary Cohen stretches his premise a bit thin. The two twists at the end are amusing enough, I guess. Many of the gore gags(..like the exploding face of the victim being shocked in the hot seat)are more laughable than before, but slasher fans who liked the first film from Cohen might get a kick out of this one. I kind of found this sequel rather long-in-the-tooth, wearing out it's welcome pretty quickly. Uke and Bart Sumner, as the warped duo, are living it up again, cackling and giggling as they *torment* their new victim. Everyone in the film seem to be having a good time.
Woodyanders Those demented hillbilly sickos Howard and Eli are back and worse than ever. Now these two depraved degenerates have their own pirate variety show on cable television. The decidedly unwholesome program includes commercials for sick items (you just gotta love Wilber, an evil fanged teddy bear that rips out little kids' throats!), terrible groan-inducing stand-up comedy routines, snuff videos sent in by viewers, and the gleeful on-air torture of naive aspiring actress Debbie (hot busty blonde babe Elizabeth Lee Miller). The homemade snuff videos are hilariously mean-spirited hoots: a folksy retired sheriff and his darling wife fry a dangerous criminal in their basement electric chair, a trio of sexy college girls blithely butcher a hunky pizza delivery boy, the staff and patrons at a video rental outlet slaughter an out-of-town chick, and a jolly deli owner tries out his new killing instruments on an unsuspecting lady victim. Writer/director Gary P. Cohen plays the whole warped premise for uproariously tasteless and offensive pitch black humor that's often crudely amusing in an admittedly lowbrow sort of way. Uke and Burt Sumner have a grand hammy time as Howard and Eli; their unrestrained eye-rolling histrionics may not be subtle, but they are quite entertaining. Gordon Ovsiew likewise makes a nice impression as the show's sunglassed hipster geek piano player. Better still, this flick sure doesn't skimp on either the excessive cheesy splatter or tasty gratuitous distaff nudity. A terrifically tacky howler.
movieman_kev The main murdering duo of the first film, Howard and Eli, now seem to have a pirate public access show filmed from a hidden location which is just the device they need to showcase bloody kills, without having to deal with the pesky little thing called plot (yea the first one's was stenuas at best, but it DID have one). Still that's not really a detriment of a movie like this & with a running time shorter then the first by almost half an hour (more if you subtract the time this one spends on clips from the first), it's not hard to sit through. And this film is a mild improvement to the first in regards to the acting as well as the special effects. However it just doesn't all jibe as well as the original. A movie full of black humor that I enjoyed a lot more. This one is still worth a view though, i guess. My Grade: D+DVD Extras: Audio commentary by Director/ writer Gary Cohen, Special effects men Mark Dolsom & Mark Kwiatek, and actors Art Neill, Paul Kay, David Christopher, & Uke; 15 minute interview with Cohen; and Trailers for Video Violence 1, Video Violence 2, Cannibal Campout, Woodchipper Massacre, & Ghoul School (the DVD also comes with the first video Volence film on the same disc)