Directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska, the twin directors who recently made a bit of a splash with their film American Mary, WWE Films' 2014 straight to video sequel to 2006's See No Evil takes place directly after the events in the first movie. The ‘God's Hand Killer,' Jacob Goodnight (wrestler Glenn ‘Kane' Jacobs) has slaughtered eight people in an old abandoned hotel before being taken out himself. Now his corpse and the bodies of his victims have been transported to the city morgue in the middle of the night, just as morgue attendant Amy (Danielle Harris) was about to clock out to go and celebrate her birthday. With the arrival of a fresh load of bodies, she decides to stick it out along with coworker Seth (Kaj-Erik Eriksen) and their wheelchair bound supervisor Holden (Michael Eklund).

Amy's friends surprise her after she cancels on them by showing up at the morgue with some booze and party gear. On hand to celebrate are her brother Will (Greyston Holt), her best friend Kayla (Chelan Simmons), drunk girl Tamara (Katharine Isabelle) and her boyfriend Carter (Lee Majdoub). The festivities start off well enough but once Tamara finds out that Jacob's body is nearby, in her drunken state she decides to go check out the corpse of the famous murder machine, Carter in tow to make sure she doesn't get into too much trouble. They find the body and she messes around with it before deciding to screw her boyfriend right next to the corpse and as they're going at it they don't see him rise off of the slab until it's too late. Carter is the first to go and from there, Jacob, still haunted by his overbearing hyper-religious mother, singlehandedly works his way through the cast with a series of increasingly grisly murder set pieces.

Sure the cast members are all different save for Kane and the location has been shifted from an abandoned hotel to a city morgue but outside of that, See No Evil 2 pretty much recycles the story from the first movie: cast members wander off, Jacob Goodnight kills them, repeat a few times and then call it a night. That's not to say that the movie isn't entertaining enough if you're in an undemanding mood and appreciate gory slasher films as it does offer up a few pretty inventive kill scenes and leans towards practical effects over obvious CGI work (always a plus for a movie like this), but strikingly original this picture is not.

At ninety minutes the movie feels about twenty minutes too long but it is well shot. There's some nice lighting effects used to create some decent atmosphere and Kane cuts an imposing frame. His range is probably pretty limited but even so, his character demands a physical performance more than anything else and on this level, he's pretty good. If you saw him lumbering after you with a knife, you'd get out of the way as quickly as you could.

The cast all seem to be having a good time here, however. Danielle Harris is perfectly likeable as the female lead and she does a decent job here. The obvious attraction that exists between her and Seth adds a little bit of depth to her character and there's a scene where she gets into it with her overprotective brother that gives her a chance to show that, yes, she is a pretty solid actress. Katharine Isabelle, best known for Ginger Snaps isn't given as much to do, her character is basically a drunken floozy, but she plays it well enough and delivers a bit of comic relief here. Michael Eklund from Bates Motel is underused as the supervisor and Lee Majdoub is killed off first and therefore not given as much to do as everyone else. The other cast members are fairly forgettable. They serve their respective purposes but don't add up to much. Male lead Kaj-Erik Eriksen comes across as a nice guy, enough so that we want him more than the other guys in the movie to make it out alive, but again, not a whole lot of depth here.