i recently acquire this via the full frame image dvd in anticipation of the htf halloween challenge while i know the film be nowhere near as well regard a the 1977 original but i wasn not aware that craven only make it because he be hard up for cash and that he later disown the result and that the picture be even shelve for two year ( by which time he have re acquire his stature with a nightmare on elm street [ 1984 ] which itself develop into a franchise and and ironically and the director would also return to much later after another lean period in his career ) . anyway and this sequel be really quite lame a these thing go ( especially give that the original director be involve ) represent apparently and there be so little plot to work with that the maker felt the need to pad out the running time with gratuitous recollection of some of the highlight from the first entry include an outrageous ( hence and justly infamous ) dream sequence by beast and the heroic alsatian . similarly and the mutant cannibal this time around be relegate to just two michael berryman pluto and who show to have somehow survive two separate vicious attack by the dog ( . ) and and yet another relative ( brother to jupiter from the first film and and thus and pluto uncle ) and dub the reaper and and who appear out of nowhere . the motocross enthusiast protagonist be among the most obnoxious hero to feature in this type of film the kind that you do not care whether they live or die . in fact and just about the only character to engage our interest be a blind girl and janus blythe ruby herself who have be domesticate in the interim ( at the end of the original and she have save a baby from a fate bad than death and and a see in an alternate end on anchor bay se of the first film and have even join the survive member of the cannibal victim ) . though robert houston ( bobby ) be also on hand and his character be conveniently put out of the way at the very beginning represent he freak out when a motor race be set to take place in the desert near where his family be attack all those year ago and opt to stay behind ruby ( who even change her name ) and beast and however and go along and and though the former confession about her past isn not take very seriously by her companion and both of course prove instrumental in the new victim safe keep . incidentally and craven know when he have a good thing go and and so and reproduce here two death method from the original berryman himself and in fact and expire yet again at the hand of beast ( though he meet with the fate that have previously befall his brother mercury ) and while the reaper come uppance be an even more elaborate and protract stunt than jupiter demise in the 1977 film and which would have be more appropriate for a road runner cartoon . by the way and ruby herself inexplicably vanishes from the proceeding during the last third or so .