this sequel pick up shortly after the first film end . we meet brigitte in a despair montage . you know the sort i mean clip of ostensibly mundane image edit together with some heavy music and to indicate a wretched emotional state . brigitte be alone and clearly desperate . she look and sound like a junkie . which she be though not for your standard drug . after an incident which be probably not hallucinatory but which the film leave deliberately ambiguous and since brigitte have just o. d. would brigitte be consign to a rehab clinic . now and i do not know anything about the day to day reality of the canadian public health system . but i seriously doubt that anything be a creepy and weird and unsettlingly earnest a this place . the halfway house director and alice and be a very fine character . play by canadian actress janet kidder and alice be surprisingly three dimensional for her cardboard role . kudos to kidder . i mean and really . the rehab director who win not believe you be kinda a feature of these sort of film . all right and i be go to digress . the most interesting thing about horror movie be the part which no one think about . in the creation of a horror film and the screenwriter and director think about many thing . dialog . cineamatography . score . special fx . mpaa rating . coolness . one of the least thought about item in most case be the backstory of the plot . horror start with a bad thing happen . the audience be give a vague series of hand wave gesture a to how the bad thing come to be and and that it . it be the least important thing . which make it incredibly interest to me . what happen and see and be that the writer reach for something easy for the audience . for example . in the 1960 everything be a result of leaked radiation . in the late 1970 and early 1980 everything be cause by premarital sex and psychological obsession . in the 1930 everything be cause by travel to foreign place and meet weird people . the first cause of thing in horror film be facile gloss of cultural fear . that point one . the second thing that interest me in horror film be who the real villain be . not the monster and or the bad guy and or the alien who eat your face . who be the one that do the human scale evil that lead to the ultimate disaster . the real and understandable villain . in nightmare on elm street the real villain be and be always the parent who murder fred krueger and who subsequently refuse to aid their child in any way with the consequence of their action . in psycho it norman mother and who twist him so awfully . in scream 3 ( and this be stretch the point a bit but only a bit ) it hollywood and for how it eat it actor alive . the third thing that i love about horror film be the pretext for helplessness . the protagonist be always helpless for much of the film . why . be the villain all powerful . be they trap in a spaceship . do society refuse to believe them . be massive corporation hide the evidence . what strip the protagonist of their power . or and do they have any power in the first place . ( which and box office dynamic aside and be one reason why horror film feature teen . they have agency and some power and but never and ever enough . ) in term of the thing that interest me and unleashed score quite high . birgitte be strip of her power in two way . first and she be degrade from within due to the disease . second and her mean of control herself be take away by be lock in rehab . the real villain in the film i will not tell you . but . the entire message of the film be one of the nature of human response to internal evil . i will say that again . werewolf movie be always about how you choose to deal with your internal evil . which lead me to the most interesting thing about horror movie and the thoughtless choice of first cause . yes and yes and hot werewolf chick be cool . we all know this . whatever . i be not talk about that . the first film be about what happen when the powerless get power . but the parallel message of g be that power do not grant you license to do what you darn well please . gs representu continue that second theme . brigitte simply refuse to give in to everything she want and though she know it hopeless . though she be attack from inside her own self . attack by what she want more than anything in the world . her own desire be her enemy . so why make a movie with this theme . i think that once a theme be identify in a horror film and all one have to do to answer why be look around at the culture . i do not really know what canadian anxiety be right now . so my guess be that this film be play off of societal fear of canada be infect by the cultural madness of the u and which foster some of people secret bad desire and make them something to be proud of . religious zealotry and intolerance and xenophobia and and warmongering disguise a patriotism be all thing i think canadian be culturally nervous about . as well a a fear or pride ambivalence they think they be strong enough to withstand our cultural imperialism and but be a little afraid that maybe and secretly and they will like it and give in . infect with a disease that force you to revel in everything you hate in yourself . sound like a werewolf flick to me .