Thursday, December 9, 2021

Axemas 2: Blood Slay (2018)

A year after the killings at the storage facility, Sarah is still the only suspect in the murders. The police don’t buy her story about a killer Santa.   

The news does a report on the storage units reopening and Sarah decides it’s time to try dating again.  At her friends urging, she goes to a bookstore to try to meet someone and literally runs into Eric, who asks her out to dinner.  Even though a date is what Sarah was looking for, she is suspicious as to why he’d ask her out since they don’t know each other.  But Eric persuades her to meet at the restaurant.

During the conversation, Eric mentions he’s seen her on the news. Sarah becomes wary since the police suspect she’s the killer. But Eric believes her story and commends her for being a brave women. At these compliments, Sarah’s self preservation shuts off and she asks if they can go back to his place. Before Sarah knows it, she’s blacked out, is back at the storage facility and there’s another killer Santa on the loose.  

So the lesson here are never go home with a man you don’t know, and if you’re hiding in a storage unit from a killer Santa, shut the hell up because sound carries in those places.

There are a couple of continuity issues, with the biggest being the news report says there are three bodies still missing. Yet later, Sarah says they found her friends, but never found the bodies of the two killers.  So are we missing two or three bodies?   

This sequel is around thirty minutes but doesn’t hold up to the first one. What else can you do in a storage unit, except run around and find that the exits are locked?  It looks like they did crowd sourcing to raise money for two more films. The good thing about short films is they cut out the padding and get down to business. I appreciate that. 

He’s got two axes now. Please tell me he has
three axes in the third movie.
This guy wasn’t even at the storage facility.
Sarah contemplates her life after an axe attack
The fabulous framing for the news report.


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