Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Trilogy of Terror 2 (1996)

Made for cable TV , airing October 30th in the US.
Filmed in Canada.
Three stories here.
Story 1 , "The Graveyard Rats". Married couple Laura and Roger fight over her affair with one of his employees and Roger still leaves her as the sole heir to his will. Laura wants to leave Roger but he threatens to expose her affair. Roger makes Laura promise to stop the affair or he's cutting her from the will. She explains to her lover , Ben - who worked for Roger , that they have to stop seeing each other. Ben entertains the idea of killing miserable Roger so he cannot blackmail her any longer. Soon they go through with their plan. Then to take the money and run. Oh yep but it backfires on them.
Story 2 , "Bobby". A lady is desperate to have her deceased son back with her once again. She uses witchcraft to bring her child back to life. Later that night , young Bobby returns home to his grieving mother. Bobby explains to his mother that he forgot who he was but when he remembered he walked back home. His mother explains that she thought he was dead. Now Bobby has many questions about who he was before. The very sweet boy that Bobby once was is no more. This could be because the boy she believes is her son looks like him , but is not.
Story 3 , "He Who Kills". A man calls the police after he finds his girlfriend and her mother dead in his girlfriend's apartment. The police have many questions for the man but he is very distraught. The women seem to have been murdered by some sort of lunatic. Then the police find a little wooden man with nasty teeth who has been burned to a crisp in the apartments oven. Later on they realize the little man is a Zuni Fetish doll , not that they know what that is exactly. The police visit a doctor in hopes that she will clear up the mystery of the Zuni doll. The police are in immediate need of knowing anything they can about the doll. The doctor works overtime to study the doll. The doctor and her assistant figure out that there is a lock and chain that the doll is to wear to keep him until control. Only he isn't wearing his lock and chain.
Stars Lysette Anthony , Matt Clark , Geraint Wyn Davies , Geoffrey Lewis , Blake Heron , Richard Fitzpatrick , Gerry Quigley , Thomas Mitchell , Dennis O'Connor , Alan Bridle , John McMahon , Brittaney Bennett , Joe Gieb , Norm Spencer , Bruce McFee
Directed by Dan Curtis
Rated R
HORROR/THRILLER/MYSTERY/HALLOWEEN

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