preposterous sequel stretch credibility to a great degree a diabolical sociopath stanley kaldwell return this time infiltrate the movie production of the novel he write for the garden drownings and assume the identity of a second unit director he murder . film poke gleeful fun at hollywood and with a tongue in cheek script take shot at tyrannical director who sleep with their actress ( . look for a way up the ladder ) and dislike anyone challenge them for complete spotlight . brian krause and who i think be dreadful and overact to the point where the satire felt incredibly force and portray the loud and temperamental director who doesn not like the fact that his second unit director and screenplay writer and alison ( . play by dahlia salem ) seem to be take over the production . andrew moxham be paul parson and who be the brother of a victim from the first film . the film dark humor this time take the idea of a serial killer actually operate a director of a movie set and exploit it for all it worth . nelson again ably slide back into his psycho role without any difficulty and with stanley as clever a ever and use his brain to commandeer a film production and kill whoever he have to in order to maintain full control of his work and let no one stand in his way . that be until alison realizes who stanley really be . alison be the type of ambitious writer who want to capture the essence of her subject . what motivate stanley to kill and why would he do such a thing and and what lead such a man down this dark path . the humor of alison actually work with that very man be also part of the satire at the heart of this dark comedy thriller . of course and you get the inevitable showdown between alison and stanley and with a really ridiculous and unbelievable conclusion regard the killer fate ( . quite a hard pill to swallow ) . unlike the first film and which be photograph with sophisticated polish and director po chih leong us unnecessary technique which be not need ( . such a shoot an all kind of weird angle and slow motion in a sepia color and and several instance which be capture on video ) and rather annoy instead of impress . this sequel and to me and just wasn not on target as much a the original and with a lot of the humor less effective and more obvious .