Yes, the heroine is helpless in her wheelchair. Of driving-me-crazy thriller cliches, deployed with reckless disregard for plausibility, can be fun. There's a whole lot of shakin' goin' on, but it isn't from fear. Mystery is coitus interruptus: it gets in the way of Bill having sex with Sharon, Bill having sex with Anna, Mark having sex with Jane, and Jennifer having nightmares about having sex with her dead husband. What the film offers in their place is a grab bag of Grand Guignol gross-outs and soft core sexcapades. As the cops arrive, the possibility surfaces that sole survivor Jennifer may be blamed for the massacre because of her recent psychiatric history.Ī fairly good time can be had watching INNER SANCTUM 2 if your enjoyment of thrillers doesn't depend on plot logic, script tautness, or gimmick-free direction. Jennifer hits Sharon with a vase and then manages to toss her out the window. During a lethal cat fight, Sharon stabs Jane with the hook, but a surprisingly resilient Mad-as-a-hatter Sharon, who was also Baxter's lover, is the culprit. MarkĪlso gets the hook, and someone strangles Anna with a necktie, implicating Bill, who neverthless turns up headless in Jennifer's closet. Lamont discovers that Jennifer's medication is being laced with hallucinogenic drugs, but he's slain with a hook outside the house. (Margaux Hemingway), Bill searches for the missing key to a safety deposit box in which Baxter stashed $500,000.Īfter Jennifer is nearly squashed by a falling flower pot, the suspect list dwindles, as we learn that Jane and Mark are actually insurance investigators. Together with the late Baxter's mistress, Anna Rollins

Coleman)-be scheming to drive her crazy? As the unbalanced heroine grapples with reality, her brother-in-law Bill (Michael Nouri) and his contentious wife Sharon (Sandahl Bergman) become house guests.

Lamont (David Warner), her nurse Jane (JenniferĬiesar), or her handyman Mark (John E. Yet, even if this low-ambition sequel merely revamps the OLD DARK HOUSE formula with the addition of heavy breathing, it doles outĪ few surprises, and guessing the killer's identity is for once a challenge.Īfter surviving her husband's attempt on her life and killing him (see INNER SANCTUM), Jennifer Reed (Tracy Brooks Swope) now suffers from vivid fantasies in which her spouse, Baxter, returns from the dead. Shamelessly sausage-grinding sex and gore into an assembly-line, lady-in-peril thriller, INNER SANCTUM 2 is scripted and directed without evident inspiration.

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