Twenty years ago, the five years old boy Michael Hawthorne witnessed his father killing his mother with an axe in an empty road and committing suicide later. On the present days, Michael (Gordon Currie) invites his girlfriend Peg (Stacy Grant) and his best friends Chris (Myc Agnew), Jennifer (Emmanuelle Vaugier), Lisa Ann (Kelly Benson), Ned (Brendon Beiser), Mitch Maldive (Phillip Rhys) and Trish (Rachel Hayward) to spend the Halloween in the country with his grandparents in their farm. He asks his friends to wear costumes that would represent their greatest innermost fear, and together with his Indian friend Crow (Byron Chief Moon), they would perform an ancient Indian celebration using the carved wooden dummy Morty (Jon Fedele) that would eliminate their fears forever. The greatest fear of Michael is to become a serial killer like his father, but something goes wrong and Morty turns into his father, killing his friends."The Fear: Resurrection" is a disappointing and pointless slash movie that uses the interesting concept of eliminating the greatest innermost fear of each friend before it grows, but in a messy screenplay full of clichés. There are some exaggerated performances, like for example Ms. Betsy Palmer; others very weak, but in general the acting is good. Unfortunately there is no explanation why the dummy is brought to live; further, in spite of being surrounded by close friends, the group does not feel pain or sorrow when each one of them dies. The low-pace along more than fifty minutes could have been used to built a better dramatic situation. In the very end, Michael shows a charm that his father was interested that I have not noticed along the story. I do not know whether the previous reference was edited in the DVD released in Brazil with 87 minutes running time. The special effects are very reasonable for a B-movie. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Fear 2: Uma Noite de Halloween" ("Fear 2: One Night of Halloween")

They took the facade of the original movie and slapped it on a pretty typical teen hack and slash. The first one at least tried to be a little original, this one is pure formula. They bulked up Morty and changed his back story, so this film really has nothing to do with the first one.This time around the cast is all young 20-something stereotypes (as opposed to the more mixed generations in the first film. This one also appears to be shot with even less of a budget than the first one. They've added a little more gore to this but dispensed with any nudity.While the first one was't that good it did keep me interested. This was just too derivative, hardly distinguishable from a thousand other hack and slash films.

Late 90's slasher condemned to the trash can. The premise is interesting: a group of teenagers drop a Halloween party. Their costumes must reflect their worst fear in order to defeat them. The worst thing is that a wooden figure of a man (yes you have to watch it to believe it) comes to life and kills these teens using against them their own fears."The Fear 2" is an useless sequel to a mid 90's disaster flick that everybody confused with 1996's teen thriller "Fear". In "The Fear 2" we have terrible acting, boring and standard direction, lame make-up and f/x, and the events happen very, very slow. The lead male character doesn't knows how to show emotions, even the wooden character shows more feelings!The best thing about this movie is Betsy Palmer. She looks the same as in Friday the 13th! but this time she's a tender old woman (mother of the lead character).Watch it at your own risk, it's not THAT bad but it's not even a good slasher flick. ONLY FOR DIE HARD FANS. 5/10.

Direct-to-video sequel to 1995 original finds a group of friends visiting a cabin on Halloween Night (as indicated by the title) and getting stalked by a 20's puppet. Characters are awfully boring for the most part, but it gets better as it goes along, thanks to Betsy Palmer's and John Fedele's (as Morty the puppet) campy performances.**1/2