CHROMESKULL: LAID TO REST 2 - A servicable sequel to what I thought was a pretty good latter day slasher. It's quite gruesome without tipping over into any kind of transgressive territory, and features the familiar device of "horrible killer backed up by murder organisation for the psychopathic rich". OK, maybe that's not quite standard, but it does carry a bit of 'Hostel' badness in with its general milkiness. Anyway, 'Chromeskull's back and he looks pretty ugly before he gets his mask on. I really like it when murder and deformity walk hand in hand. Although when MTDS mentioned 'Tiny Tim' a few posts ago it brought back painful memories of being told I'd look great if I played ukelele with a mental floppy perm by a Charles Manson looklalike standing naked in front of a broken mirror in Leeds pub back room on an awful mushroom voyage. This film is better than anything that happened to me that night, but now I've got ****ing gout in my ankle.
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