Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 03/27/2001
Distributor/Studio: New Concorde
The sequel to
Saturday the 14th, this
horror-comedy traces the adventures of nice-guy teen
Eddie Baxter (
Jason Presson) as he saves the world from the brink of supernatural destruction. After moving into a decrepit, inherited mansion with his family -- a collection of oddballs who eat nothing but junk food yet cling to a
Leave It to Beaver sense of normalcy --
Eddie is the only one to notice the mysterious mists that spill up from the basement and engender odd behavior in everyone but himself and lovable old
Gramps (
Ray Walston). The entire family, from
Eddie's dad (
Avery Schreiber) to his freeloading
Aunt Alice (
Rhonda Aldrich), soon begins conducting late-night chocolate-fudge sculpture classes in the kitchen. Chairs begin eating people,
Aunt Alice spouts werewolf-style facial hair, and monsters begin issuing forth from a crack in the basement floor. Soon, a leggy blond vampire named
Charlene (
Pamela Stonebrook) has taken up residence in the
Eddie's room; she tells the boy he's set to inherit the mantle of darkness from a fiend known as The Evil One (
Leo V. Gordon) at the stroke of midnight on Saturday the 14th. As signs and portents proliferate,
Eddie must decide whether to reject temptation or bask in his newfound powers. Help arrives unexpectedly in the form of
Leonard Cavendish (
Phil Leeds),
Gramps' deceased best friend.
Saturday the 14th Strikes Back co-star
Avery Schreiber spent much of the '80s being distracted by the hearty crunch of Doritos snack chips in a long-running series of TV commercials. Audiences will remember
Ray Walston from his role as
Uncle Martin in the '60s TV show
My Favorite Martian, while veteran
comedy player
Phil Leeds would go on to play tooth-obsessed
Judge Happy Boyle on the '90s
Fox comedy Ally McBeal.
~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide