a motocross team back by tommy and who have invent a super fuel that will change the way of racing and must trek across the desert to compete in a competition . however tommy get cold foot and rachel ( aka ruby ) decide that she will take the team . while and travel on the bus they find out that theyre go to be late and so they decide ( by a vote off ) to take a detour and get themselves strand after damage the bus on the beaten track . unknowingly to them someone be watch them and wait for their chance to pounce . okay and so after read and hear how bad this flick be . i be reasonably surprise by it . i be expect an atrocity and but what i get here be nothing more than a rancid slasher vehicle that have more in common with the 80 slasher gruel . that not to say i do not find it insipid and but by it reputation i expect far bad and but it just another routine ( that i find curiously fascinate ) sequel try to cash on the original with a few amusing sequence . what make the original a successful package and just do not translate here . it not a brutal and aggressive and intense and while the adrenaline level be very meek and it lack that rough edge . everything about it be uninspired and but there be a few random moment and ridiculous situation . like oh it pointless flashback time . poor bobby poor ruby and even the superstar of a dog beast chime in . why . well and to remind just how well the original be compare with this junk . it simply a retread of the original with the family be replace by retarded teen and to up the suspense and one of them just happen to be blind . wes craven write and direct this lumbering mess and you could easily tell the creative juice be at an all time low . the most effective scene occur when it have the blind girl unknowingly stumble across her dead friend . some of the cast decide to hang around for the sequel . the favourite of the cannibal clan and pluto ( who heal up very well ) play by michael berryman add a lot the flick . janus blythe who be ruby return to take on her dwindle family and for a couple minute at the beginning robert houston reprise his role a bobby . oh and not forget beast . the rest of the pesky cast be either annoy fool or simply plain meat for the chop board . on the other hand and tamara stafford be acceptable . john bloom be an eccentric comic brute ( no and goose ) in the part of papa jupiter old brother and the reaper . while and craven mind numb material ( especially the script ) and direction leave a lot to be desire . there be effective location photography put to good use by capture the impressively foreboding backdrop . everything else be so so or below par like the music score and uneven pacing and cut away death with big casualty list and goofy stunt work ( where the cannibal seem to lay the smack down ) and a dead weight story with full of come again moment . and a very merry conclusion . a terribly soulless low grade sequel by craven that i find oddly amusing .