Scare Package II – Rad Chad’s Revenge

Horror anthologies can be a pleasant surprise. Even if some of the segments are weak, a decent hot to miss ratio can make even the most uneven anthology watchable.

Watchable isn’t a description that works for Scare Package II – Rad Chad’s Revenge.

The sequel to the 2019 Scare Package is both absurd and unnecessary.

It’s played up more like a Scary Movie style spoof of popular franchises like Halloween, Friday the 13th and Saw. This is harder than your standard horror movie as it needs to juggle humor with gory murder sequences.

Chad’s Revenge stumbles out the gate immediately with take you out of the moment hokey unfunny jokes and seemingly intentionally terrible performers.

Rad Chad (Jeremy King), the resident horror movie expert is dead at the hands of the serial killer that wiped out most of Jessie’s (Zoe Graham, Boyhood) friends. At least her mother (Kelli Maroney) and *ahem* Jessie’s girl, Kimmie (Shakira Ja’nai Paye), survive as well. Now it’s time to pay respects to Chad with a smattering of his friends and associates from the local video store.

Unfortunately for all the guests, Chad wants to make his funeral so memorable that no one will forget it. Assuming they survive it of course. Yes, Chad wants to play a game and all who survive the first challenge gets to proceed. Failure to win leads to some gruesome and silly death scenes.

Using Saw as the framework complete with murder traps accomplished little but make me want to revisit the entire Saw series rather than endure another ridiculously bad sequence. Sure, the Saw franchise had a few lackluster installments and seriously could have ended with the third film, but it featured competent acting and creative deaths scenes. Both are solely lacking here.

To get clues to escape the traps, the guests have to watch shorter videos with vital information for their survival.

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The first segment, Welcome to the 90s by director Alexandra Barreto, is maybe the worst simply because it actually executed the concept well enough to offer a glimmer of hope that the film could work. It’s a flailing thought as the rest of Chad’s Revenge is one bumbling misstep after another.

Co-creators Aaron B. Koontz and Cameron Barnes mistake excess with excellence or even passable entertainment. When in doubt for the framing chapters they lean heavily on cartoonish gore and abysmal acting.

These scenes are masterfully awful with lousy special effects that look laughable.

Scare Package II – Rad Chad’s Revenge is an exercise in endurance to see how long you can manage before tapping out. The best play is to simply skip opening this package. It’s not worth it for the minimal amount of quality horror comedy. There are more than enough better options that are more constructive use of your time.

Rating: 2 out of 10

Photo Credit: Shudder

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