People are voting emotionally.

Good concept, poorly executed.

A Disappointing Continuation

The acting in this movie is really good.

Emergency personnel arrive to the scene after Laid To Rest ends. One girl escapes with a guy. There's some abusive guy in charge. He finds a phone which he'll use to track down the girl. But this isn't your regular emergency personnel. This is Chromeskull's crew. They operate on him to save his life and restore his face after he wore a skill full of acid. The guy, Preston, does track down the girl and slashes her up in Chromeskull fashion. In fact, he's sort of in charge of the organization while Chromeskull is recovering.When the cops find the girl's remains they recognize the familiar pattern. Elsewhere, a girl is about to undergo surgery for her eyes, she's progressively losing her sight and one night parties with a friend, when Preston-as-Chromeskull arrives, kills the friend and grabs the girl and stashes her in a casket for the real Chromeskull to kill, who's doing better.The cops investigate the girl's disappearance and find a video with Preston walking by. They bring the guy who drove the surviving girl to the station to identify the image. But Preston is also after this guy to tie up Chromeskull's loose ends. Later he kidnaps him and puts him in the same warehouse with the girl. The lame cops eventually make it to the place, just as Chromeskull is up and ready and not happy with Preston impersonating him.Laid to Rest 2 is a great sequel. It's enjoyable when a crew learns and when a sequel for once improves on the original. Acting is better, direction is better, the special effects are truly spectacular and realistic. And they are all physical effects, no cheap CGI stuff, which is great because this movie is very gory. Some death scenes are striking but then there are others that are weak. The story is more elaborate and intriguing when it comes to Chromskull's mysterious organization. Unfortunately, locations are weak and they still struggled with telling the story. At some point this movie confines itself to some small dark warehouse and some tiny office as police station. And that's also when this movie runs out of steam. Preston is always whining and begging for forgiveness for something, we do not know what. The cops are an incompetent bunch. This movie, like the first, also has portions shot in POV for no good reason really. It doesn't add anything or improves things in any way. Overall a strong sequel. And at this pace, a third movie should be near A-movie quality. I just hope they get around to making more in the series as the idea and villain have a lot of potential.

Bigger and I must say better Laid To Rest movie than the first one, the story of Chromeskull follows moments after the first one left, this time with an all star cast of fantastic actors like horror scream queen Danielle Harris, Terminator TV series actors Brian Austin Green and the awesome Thomas Dekker returning in the role as Tommy also introducing Mimi Michaels the wonderful Angelina Armania and with Nick Principe returning as the stalking, murderous villain and film titled character CHROMESKULL. The film is beautify shot, Robert Hall really knows hows to make a horror film that will shock his audience, with the gore, violence, the music and the use of special effects by Eric Porn at Almost Human EFX. If your fan of masked psychopathic serial killers filming their victims murders then check this bad boy out, My favourite slasher film in years.

Its weird to think that it was a full two years ago that Robert Hall unleashed his now cult status slasher flick, Laid To Rest, to the world. The film gave the new generation of horror fans what Pieces and The Prowler gave to the older generation: an unrelenting slasher film, full of all the gore and blood one could ask for. It also introduced us to Chromeskull. With his now-iconic mask and knives, he carved his way into the hearts of horror fans everywhere. Now, in 2011, we find ourselves back for seconds with CHROMESKULL: Laid To Rest 2. At the end of the first film, our villain (thought dead) was lying on the floor of a convenience store, face ripped off, head smashed in, as out heroine made her escape. picking up where that film left off, this sequel begins by showing us a secretive agency picking up the body of our killer in an attempt to save his life. We then meet our cast of old and new characters. Thomas Dekker, the highlight of the film for me, returns in a much larger role than in the first film. Brian Austin Green appears in what is likely the biggest role in the entire film, even more-so than chromeskull. He plays an employee at what is only referred to as "the agency" that seemingly revolves around the capture, chase, and killing of people, all recorded on tape. tired of being under-appreciated, Green's character decides he is fed up with the way he has been treated, and begins to take on the task of killing people while wearing the infamous Chromeskull mask. From there we get subplots involving the police investigation, and the story of a new girl whom the agency has picked for Chromeskull to stalk and kill. As far as slasher movies go, I doubt you will find a follow-up as good as this anytime soon. the sequel improved over the original in almost every way imaginable. The acting is far tighter in this with the addition of Green, Danielle Harris, and Owain Yeoman. The script also appears far tighter, with characters making far smarter, more logical decisions than in the previous film. Most of improved of all, of course, is the gore. without giving too much away, i will say this. You have never seen anything as brutal and unrelenting as the kills in this movie, fake snuff films not included. Disemblowments, decapitations, sliced off body parts, and more. its all there in glorious detail. Director Robert Hall seems to have decided that, after viewing the first film, that it simply was not disgusting and disturbing enough, opting for nearly double the body count of the original. There are a few drawbacks, however. While the main cast may be better than the last films, the supporting cast and a few very minor characters have some acting classes to take, particularly the female and sort of "second in command" police officers. Their performances simply take a lot from the viewing experience when they are on screen. Also, as Brian Collins of Horror Movie A Day pointed out, the kills are not quite as interesting. Aside from that, the basic presentation of the movie is not stellar but is not terrible, looking like a standard DTV film shot on video. All in all, if you enjoy horror movies, specifically slashers, and lots of blood, this is surely one to check out. Solid gore, direction, and performances make this one of the top 3 DTV horror films of the year. 8.5/10

Robert Hall's 2009 horror debut Laid to Rest wasn't perfect by any means, but offered a great gore-scheme and pacing and suspense that came to its favor. Its characters weren't very well crafted, and logic had to hide out so the film could do its thing, but overall it was a cute and enjoyable little gore flick. Did it ever need a sequel? Well, to Hall, since it was a moderate success on the message boards and online yes it did.Laid to Rest 2, accompanied by the "Chromeskull" subtitle, is a bleak and ugly film not because it's gruesome and violent, but because its plot becomes blown out of proportion and it becomes a cocky horror film. Somebody should've whispered in the filmmakers' ears that this wasn't a big success, but a fairly unexpected one. The story has now become enlarged and has now gone to expand its boundaries to the point where it's unbelievable and contrived.The film picks up right where the first left off, then manages to fast-forward three months later where we are introduced to Jess (Michaels), a girl going blind because of scar tissue in her eyes. Jess is drugged, kidnapped, and locked in a coffin by the killer who has a video camera on his shoulder and a shiny, chrome-silver mask in the shape of a skeleton on his face. He uses deadly, homemade knives that are something straight out of a sadist's mind, but are crafted with such detail they become one of the strongest points in the film.I'm not going to even try to explain the backstory of the killer because I feel ashamed for even asking for it. I wished for minor backstory after seeing Laid to Rest. I thought, I'd like just a small, brief explanation of why this person was killing and videotaping it. I didn't need a huge, bloated, and exhausting storyline that is convoluted and outright ridiculous. The film wants to bring the top-secret, government business into play but it doesn't have the budget nor the skills to do so. This is a slasher film. It's a hack and slash, gorehound, bloody, disgusting, gruesome horror film that deserves zero conspiracy talk at all.The fact that they bring the overblown backstory into play is just a clear sign of cockiness, but who can really blame them? If you spat out a random, unknown horror film into stores with a promising cover and you made big bucks off of it, you'd take the obligatory sequel one step further wouldn't you? Well, Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 doesn't take just one step, it takes about two leaps and, when you think it has officially stopped in one place, it manages to tip-toe a bit further and further. Have mercy.Bobbi Sue Luther, director Robert Hall's wife respectively, played the heroine from the original film and makes a quick appearance in this one as well. Sadly, she's killed off very quickly just to bring in an annoying and obnoxious blonde girl instantly. She's no Bobbi Sue, and she's not even interesting enough to be concerned for unlike her.Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 was somewhat promising, but ultimately falls flat on its face. There is a third film planned which I assume and sort of hope will close the series. I hope after this ludicrous sequel we at least get a final and respectable entry in a series that never got off its feet completely. Aside from gore, the series never truly accomplished much else. It succeeds in being a standout for a few reasons, but overall, when closely examined, or even mildly, it's just another horror film inspired by too many others.Starring: Brian Austin Green, Danielle Harris, Mimi Michaels, Nick Principe, and Thomas Dekker. Directed by: Robert Hall.