Happy Death Day, cost 4.8 million US dollars, global box office 114 million US dollars. Even in 2017, a year when horror films had a bumper harvest, this was still a solid achievement. So making a sequel is a sure thing.
But looking at the plot of the first part, the main creator does not seem to have left any specific clues for the sequel. The final ending of the first part is that the male and female protagonists embrace each other, a perfect happy ending, and there is not even a little tricky easter egg.
This is a little embarrassing. . .
Fortunately, there is a question that was not clearly explained in the previous work: what is the reason for the infinite reincarnation of the heroine?
I believe that the main creator did not want to fully explain this stalk from the beginning. That said, the issue is a fascinating bug in the film itself, not a foreshadowing of the sequel. The heroine in the previous work even imagined that this reincarnation was the halo given to him by his deceased mother. I have to say that this was a wonderful treatment. He naturally brought the audience's thoughts to the depths of feelings such as the deep love between mother and son.
Under the circumstance that all the clues for shooting the sequel were blocked, the main creator began to helplessly consume this stalk of the reason for reincarnation.
So I saw the beginning of the almost collapsed Happy Death Day 2.
The sequel firstly shifted the focus of all contradictions to Huangmao Ren. Very carefully, in accordance with the way the heroine of the previous work experienced the same time countless times every morning, I photographed various things after he got up, and the hero and heroine also became the background. So serious, so detailed. . . But this extremely detailed part did not give any impetus to the final main line.
The appearance of Huangmao Ren completely explained the reason for the reincarnation of the heroine. This is because he and his companions invented something similar to a time and space management machine. On the one hand, this kind of pure science and engineering hardcore thinking makes me very speechless. On the other hand, it's a bit too strange that Huangmao Ren's machine only realized after countless reincarnations of the heroine. And Ren has been doing this all the time, how could he have no feeling about the infinite reincarnation of the heroine before this.
The most disgusting thing is that there is no basis for a murderous version of Ren, who perverts to kill himself in other spaces (the reason is to create chaos). So we saw the inexplicable runaway of two Rennes. . . Throughout the whole article, I have never found the motive for the murderous version of Renn to kill, nor the space where he came from, and this character did not appear in the subsequent plots. It feels like it was bluntly inserted in order to make something happen. Extremely blunt, extremely inexplicable.
Fortunately, since the protagonist's identity has returned to the heroine, the subsequent progress of the story has become relatively normal.
Parallel space is not a new setting in current film and television works. This allows the creator to add something new to the original setting.
Family and love is a big attraction, and it is also the biggest highlight of this work's setting that is different from the previous work. The theme of the previous work was suspense, and the main creator successfully diverted the audience's attention to the question of guessing who the murderer was. And the theme of this work is the choice. The biggest challenge for the heroine in this work is not to guess who the murderer is (from the plot, he already knows who the murderer is), but to choose her mother or her boyfriend. And through this choice, a relatively deep philosophical speculation about who I am is triggered.
The scumbag in the previous work was used by waste and upgraded to become a ruthless and unscrupulous boss, which is reasonable. And the boss in the previous work became the victim in this work, and the heroine still wants to save him, which is a bit incredible. You were the enemy who killed you just yesterday, and today you are saving him despite the danger of not being able to return to your own world. . . Is it a bit of a bitch?
The scenes of various deaths of the heroine are also full of joy as in the previous work, but they are already immune to this kind of scene. I just think the scene where the bikini falls to the ground is quite imaginative.
At the end of the film, this time the main creator was smart and left a little easter egg. Probably a sequel
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