GENERAL GORE 2

Directed by Mike Stoklasa

Rich Evans – Mimskip Selfo
Ron Kosary – Ron Gore

Last fall when I reviewed the first GENERAL GORE, I said that it showed promise on the part of filmmaker Mike Stoklasa. GENERAL GORE 2 is a nice progression. While it has much less plot than the first film, it is technically superior. Not only is it better shot, it’s also better edited and paced.

The first film ended with Gore destroying and entire town. Since then two months has passed and Gore is still being chased by Agent Mimskip Selfo. Gore is still the same nut case, but we find Selfo battered from his last encounter with Gore and a trash compactor.

Gore returns to his hometown and Selfo believes it’s to kill his son. A few years before Gore was charged with his wife’s murder and it seems he’s back to finish the job…and take out a few of the locals along the way.

Stoklasa realizes the limitations of a video format and decides to take the film is a different direction. Where the first film was more a dark parody of the Rambo films, GORE 2 has more a tongue in cheek campiness. There’s a scene that captures the film completely, when Gore is about to give a shovel lashing to baseball playing jock, Gore sets down his weapon and proceeds to pull out, seemingly from nowhere, a rain poncho and eye protection.

Like the first film, all the violence occurs off camera. What you do get to see are the chunks of flying meat and bone splatter everything in frame. My biggest criticism of the first film was the gratuitous use of the “splatter on the wall” technique. Stoklasa uses it to an even higher degree here, fortunately it works better as this film doesn’t take itself anywhere near as seriously as the first.

I’m looking forward something Stoklasa puts out when he decides to become serious about filmmaking. It will be nice to see what he can do when he tries to take his hobby to the next level.

What’s nice about the films put out by Stoklasa and his company GMP Cinema is that his films are non-profit. It’s amateur filmmaking and Stoklasa knows it. You can pick his work up for $3 each off his site.

Order from the GMP website.