Just in time to join the fearful festivities of the Halloween season, director/co-writer Dante Yore unleashes bloody barrels of hay and guts in Fear PHarm 2. A follow-up sequel to the 2020 original Fear PHarm (read our review here), Fear PHarm 2 continues the storyline of horror cinema’s fresh, fun, and freak-filled family of farming slashers.
A young woman named Melanie (Tiana Tuttle) remains the captive of a family of farmers that operate a giant corn maze. Unbeknownst to the locals, the family captures unsuspecting customers who are carriers of a coveted gene, one which they harvest for its anti-aging capabilities to add to their retail line of skin cream. Operations are interrupted when Melanie and the other captives escape into the corn maze and the family must hunt them down. However, what they assume will be a simple corral and capture of their captives turns into a night of bloody exchanges as the hunted fight back while searching for a way out of the corn maze, and the hunters fight to keep their family together and their sinister secret hidden.
The chase ’em and hack ’em nature of Dante Yore’s Fear PHarm movies could get him inducted into the so-called “Splat Pack,” as these movies are quickly beginning to remind me of the spirit and aesthetic of Adam Green movies — those who appreciate those sorts of bloody horror-comedies should get a kick out of these films, and especially the much-improved Fear PHarm 2. the acting is definitely amateur despite everyone’s obvious charisma and the production quality still screams B-movie horror, but it was a fun watch all the same. In fact, I wish I had 3D glasses for watching this movie, as eyeballs and blood quite frequently splattered against the screen. It is obvious that Yore has quite the sense of humor, crafting comedic kills and lovable characters for lovers of slasher flicks to enjoy.
6.75 out of 10
| Fear PHarm 2 | ||
| RATING: | NR |
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| Runtime: | 1 Hr. 15 Mins. | |
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