Review of No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008) by John T — 11 Oct 2008

I gotta give this one props for being both a prequel and a sequel to Reeker. How crazy is that?

I didn't think this was worse than the first. However, after seeing The Reeker you know what's coming. The whole point/mood of the first one was trying to figure out what was happening. If you watched the first one you know what's going to happen, so you've just lost the whole tone of this one. I think if you watched this one without first watching the first, you'd like it better (but then like the first one less when you watched that one, so there's nothing you can do. You're in a lose lose situation).

It was cool seeing the history of how the Reeker came to be, which is what the title suggest the movie is about, but to be honest the entire "Rise of the Reeker" is in the first 5 minutes of the movie. The rest is just another Reeker story. Which really wasn't bad. The acting was good. The story was great. It's just ... well it's like watching the Carnival of Souls remake. Or like watching The Six Sense for the second time. It's good, but you know what's gonna happen, so it's not quite as cool the second time around.

*SPOILERS*.

It was kind of weird having a barrier/radius around you. It reminded me of a video game where you walk to the end of the world and there's nothing left.

And the very very end the dead girl I believe is the one in the Reeker movie that the blind guy first sees. Craziness.