The Tall man is back(still played menacingly by Angus Scrimm), though James Le Gros takes over the role of Mike in this sequel that picks up at the end of the first, when Mike was taken into the mirror by the tall man. Reggie rescues him, but the house is destroyed. Several years later, Mike is released from an asylum, having convinced the doctors that the events of Part I were just in his imagination. However, Mike doesn't believe that, and reunites with Reggie to track down and defeat the tall man, who has laid waste to small towns across middle America.
Bigger budgeted sequel is scrupulously faithful to Part I, and introduces some new ideas to the narrative, but it isn't as eerie as the first, and is far too reliant on gruesome F/X to move the story forward, a real shame that, though there is another memorable twist ending.
Bigger budgeted sequel is scrupulously faithful to Part I, and introduces some new ideas to the narrative, but it isn't as eerie as the first, and is far too reliant on gruesome F/X to move the story forward, a real shame that, though there is another memorable twist ending.