Remember when Sam and Josh battled The Boogeyman, Hollow Jack and The Candy Corn Scarecrow? Or when Michelle and Charlie also got messed up in the battle against the forces of Hell? That was thirty years ago, and everyone has either walked away or forgotten what happened, except for Josh — now Pastor Josh (Courtney Gains) — who keeps watch over the town and what remains of the barn itself. Despite his sister Heather (Kelli Maroney) trying to get him to give up his watch over the town, you know that everything is going to get crazy in Helen’s Valley.
Of course it does. Natural teen wonder leads his nephew Kyle (Tristan Olsen) and his friend Megan (Amanda Byrne) into the forbidden room at the back of the church, where they discover children’s books that tell the stories of the monsters in the barn. Josh had told Kyle that when dealing with bullies, you should get someone bigger and stronger to defend you. That means that to get rid of the bullies making their lives hell, the duo use the demons to get back at the jocks and cheerleaders, unleashing the full power of Hell. And is that Sam making his return?
This time, The Barn has added new stars to the cast, including John Kassir as the voice of the main demon, William Ragsdale as Harvey, Felissa Rose as Professor Betty, plus Ari Lehman returns as Dr. Rock. But the real star of the show is the practical effects, which go nuts as bodies are torn, twisted and destroyed. The monsters look cooler, the blood sprays harder, and there’s a totally crazy sequence inside a 3D movie within a movie, as well as a baby pumpkin carving contest that turns into a massacre. If you’re a practical effects nerd — and you are, because you’re reading this — this is everything you’ve been looking for, the kind of movie that 80s Fangoria would make you mental to finally see. I mean, a man’s eyeballs pop right out of his head and wriggle all around.
Where else will you witness a corn man murder an entire hayride full of people with a chainsaw or a pumpkin man ripping the flesh off a girl in a nun costume and then puking on her face until it melts?
(That’s a rave review, by the way.)
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