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Animal Instincts 2

Animal Instincts 2

Released Oct 31st, 1994
Running Time 90
Director Gregory Hippolyte
Company Axis Films International
Cast Elizabeth Sandifer, Shannon Whirry, Al Sapienza, Jennifer Campbell, Woody Brown
Critical Rating Not Yet Rated
Genre Alternative

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Somehow, through the entire screening of this picture, 1 couldn't shake the image of Andrew Stevens searching frantically through his desk and under the couch cushions for a misplaced script to Night Eyes XII. Animal Instincts 2 flatters the latter series via a most sincere, almost slavishly Xerox-like form of imitation — which is great news for voyeurs, but somewhat prosaic fluff for seasoned viewers.

The problem lies in a humorless, unceasingly bitter script which demands that the performers be... well, unceasingly bitter and humorless. Woody Brown plays a security specialist whose personal ethics are slightly less appealing than a lobbyist's during the height of election season. Bored with his domestic marriage to Elizabeth Sandifer, Woody becomes peeper extraordinaire by installing mini-cameras in the air ducts of his female clientele, following their lustful exploits from the remote feed in his van.

Shannon Whirry, his nubile new neighbor on the rebound from a series of destructive relationships, becomes fresh meat for his lascivious lens. You don't need to be a traffic cop to see this lane change is going to result in a carnal collision. The question is, how far will she let the volatile Woody (there's a pun in there somewhere) enact his side of the fantasy if he keeps punching the lights out of her new, sensitive photographer boyfriend? About 90 minutes is the pat answer, for that's the running time of your average erotic thriller. Shannon, who's been quite a good actress in other Axis pieces (notably Mirror Images 2, an evil twin role) appears waxy and life­less here; Woody Brown does his best with a character arc that begins on the middle ground of obsession and escalates to the Tony Perkins school of subtlety.

Filled to the brim with director Hippolyte's signature gratuitous softcore interludes, (and a naked appearance by XXX star Heather Hart) Animal Instincts 2 is a guaranteed crowd pleaser; but the drama unspools like a soap opera underwritten by Victoria's Secret: the images are heartbreakingly pretty, but the content has all the emotional pull of a mail­order catalog.



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