Pedro Fernández is back as Julio along with his majestic head of power hair! A closed movie studio is the scene of a little girl’s Halloween birthday party. Said girl has a familiar looking doll and you just know the supernatural shit is about to hit the fan. Throw in the greatest musical performance in horror history (Go home Blood Tracks! Eat shit Rocktober Blood! Suck ass Terror on Tour!) when Tatiana takes the stage and sings about boys, you have yourselves a superior sequel and all around wonderful slice of bizarro horror from South of the Border. Tatiana invites our hero Julio to the party her movie producer father is throwing for her little sister. Julio, being both star and love struck gladly accepts. His good fortune quickly turns sour when he notices Tatiana jump in a car with her sister, who is holding the doll that gave him so much trouble a few years back. Immediately after failing to warn his potential girlfriend about the dangerous passenger in her backseat, a disheveled man causes a ruckus in Julio’s store and warns him the doll is looking for him. This man proceeds to stumble out into the street and get hit by a car. As Julio holds him in his arms, the man advises him to read The Book of Grieving Souls, gives him a charm made of sand dollars and passes away. Julio conveniently finds said tome at his local library… lucky break. The Halloween birthday bash is underway and papa’s special effects master has some PG-rated hijinks planned for everyone in attendance. Julio arrives during Tatiana’s stellar performance of the endlessly catchy Chicos, Chicos and falls more in love (don’t blame him there). The giant Halloween display/cake is brought out, little sis cuts herself and as Julio takes Tatiana to the side to ask after the creepy doll, something sinister starts creepin’ around. The doll hides in the cake display, eats a toy witch and transforms into some sort of goblin. Alright… I’ll allow it. The SFX guy gets murdered when he goes to check out the cake and panic sets in when his mutilated corpse is discovered. With the party cleared out, the family heads home and Julio sticks around to banish the evil presence. Another issue arises when the little girl wakes her big sister up to let her know in all the panic, she left a very important gift (7 expensive silver coins left to her by her dead mother) her father trusted her with at the studio. Not wanting to let pops down, she asks her sister to take her back there to grab them. The girls sneak out while papa naps, grab the coins and come across Julio who warns them that they’re in danger. Little sis wanders off and gets snatched up by the little lizard-tailed booger and dragged into another dimension. Now it’s up to Julio to destroy the monster by dawn and save the little girl from an eternity in wherever the hell she’s been whisked away to. Tatiana gets transformed into a cake topper, Pedro Fernández ponytails his mullet and dons a duster, fireballs get lobbed, strings are barely concealed, a phone throws up, papa throws on some denim and grabs some guns, and the world’s worst security guard lets a lot slide until finally getting off his ass and almost immediately getting murdered. The father looks like a Mexican Cameron Mitchell, Julio’s ponytail looks like it should be eating out of your dumpster and the monster looks like Anjelica Huston’s true form in The Witches if she got left out in the sun too long and thrown up on. A real winner.
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