The diabolical devil doll returns to wreak more havoc. This time it comes to life and turns into a hideous scaly humanoid lizard beast which terrorizes several folks holding a lavish Halloween birthday party for little girl Tania (cute Renata del Rio) on a closed film studio. It's up to occult expert Julio (the ever-amiable Pedro Fernandez) to stop the foul fiend before dawn. He's assisted by sweet singer Mayra (the foxy Tatiana) and stern movie mogul Roberto Mondragon (a perfectly huffy Joaquin Cordero). Director Rene Cardona III treats the gloriously ridiculous premise with total seriousness, thereby providing a wondrous wealth of often gut-busting unintentional campy humor. Moreover, Cardona III relates the silly plot at a snappy pace, manages to create a fair amount of creepy atmosphere, and pours on the gore with lip-smacking élan (blood and goo literally flows, spurts and squirts all over the place!). The clawed'n'fanged reptilian monster is an absolute riot; he's a goofy-looking thing with a long tail, a big banana-like nose, and absurd pointy ears! The lovably primitive (markedly less than) special effects are likewise pretty funny. Better still, the lovely Tatiana even performs a bouncy pop-rock number! Xaxier Cruz's slick, fluid cinematography and Pedro Plascencia Salinas' funky, syncopated score are both up to par. A real hoot of a schlockfest.

And before I start getting negative ratings towards my reviews, I must say that I watched the movie objectively. I always get bashed when I give negative reviews to most of Mexican slashers and I feel good for doing it. To support Mexican cinema does not means that we should watch all kinds of crap.Anyways, I watched "Vacaciones de Terror 2" and I can see a slight improvement from the original. Pedrito's acting still sucks but at least he plays a more decent leading role. This movie obviously was inspired by the Friday the 13th flicks but here we got a monster instead of a masked killer. But the idea is the same. Sadly, the Mexican effort is beyond terrible and cheap.Gore is present through all the movie but sadly enough, the scenes that provoke it are extremely cheesy. The slasher genre was dead by 1991 so I guess that my fellow countrymen tried to get easy money with an effective formula: b-grade actors and gore. Don't watch this movie. Not even as MST3000 material. Avoid it at all costs. It's part of a cheesy era of slashers.I must admit that I enjoyed as cheap entertainment these movies way back in the early 90's but now, when I watch them objectively, I reach to the conclusion that when you are young, you can accept anything...

First of all there is a lot of confusion with the title(s) of this movie. The video cassette release title is "Pesadilla Sangrienta" with the date 1990 given. "Pesadilla Sangrienta" is listed on IMDb with a different director and cast. The website TodoCine has this title as a movie directed by Lucio Fulci. CineFania has the correct information as follows: title, "Vacaciones de Terror 2" aka "Pesadilla Sangrienta" and "Cumpleaños Diabolicos", although their release date is 1989 which differs from everyone. Now if that's clear, on to the review. As far as fans of the genre go, a Mexican horror movie from the 1980's and 1990's is hard to come by. When one pops up, there isn't much of a question but to buy it. Of course if it is advertised as a horror film but turns out to be more of a mystery, you're out of luck. In this case, however, "Pesadilla Sangrienta" is 100% pure horror. And if you thought motion pictures made in the USA covered the market in pop star flicks, think again. Here you get two for the price of one. And yes Tatiana does put on a little concert, which comes off very well. Both singers play it straight and give very pleasing performances. As Tatiana's father, veteran action star Joaquin Cordero's presence is much appreciated by the older viewers. The creature in the movie, though, gives the best performance. If this movie is little known, at least under its alternate title, the monster should rank with the best. Truly scary and different from most run of the mill monsters. It's a shame the plot doesn't match the special effects. The special effects, actually, also serve as the backdrop to the story. And as most movies with "Blood" in their title, there is plenty to go around here. The bottom line, however, is that the story is just drawn out too much. Perhaps as a hour long TV episode it would have worked. At some point this may just wind up as a curiosity piece for fans of Pedro and Tatiana, but the "Bloody Nightmare" monster is certainly worth a look at.

This film is for all the slasher genre lovers! Mexicans can do good slasher as good as Americans. It has a very creepy atmosphere, good acting, a creepy killer, a chilling score, and yes, GORE!. The plot is very predictable, and the ending is really bad but this movie should be checked out. Some cool ax-fun scenes.