Trilogy of Terror II

Trilogy of Terror II is a 1996 madeforcable sequel to the 1975 television film, Trilogy of Terror, both directed by Dan Curtis. The film follows the formula of the original, with one female lead Lysette Anthony playing parts in each of three segments. The film was given an R rating for horror violence. In the episode He Who Kills, one of the museum security guards is reading a Dark Shadows comic book, and enthuses about how he used to rush home from school to watch it. Dan Curtis created the TV series Dark Shadows in 1966.

This first film is based on Henry Kuttners eponymous short story, albeit considerably altered. In Kuttners tale, the thief is a male cemetery caretaker intent on exterminating a colony of abnormally large rats.It has been some time since Bobby accidentally drowned, leaving his mother Alma Lysette Anthony depressed and guilty. However, while her husband is away on business, she determines to raise her son from the dead. Armed with a magic book and a Key of Solomon in this case, a talisman rather than a book, she conjures dark forces to bring her son back. Before going to bed, a vicious thunder storm approaches the luxurious beach mansion. Hearing a knock, she opens the door to discover her son. After cleaning him up, she begins to make him feel at home again. However, all doesnt work out when Bobby goes completely mad and begins to terrorize his mother in the dark house with a sledgehammer and a butcher knife. The mother soon realizes that it isnt Bobby who returned to her, but a demon that had taken his place, as he says Bobby hates you, Mommy, so he sent me instead, revealing his demonlike face and the screen blacks out. ........

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