Wild Things 2

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Movie
German title Wild Things 2
Original title Wild Things 2
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK from 16
Rod
Director Jack Perez
script Ross Helford ,
Andy Hurst
production Marc Bienstock
music Andrew Feltenstein ,
John Nau
camera Seo Mutarevic
cut Axel Hubert
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Wild Things

Successor  →
Wild Things 3

Wild Things 2 is an American thriller from 2004 starring Susan Ward and Katie Stuart . Directed by Jack Perez .

The film presents itself as a continuation of the thriller Wild Things from 1998, but in terms of plot and resolution appears more like a remake , especially since otherwise neither the plot nor the characters are related to each other. Another sequel called Wild Things 3 was released in 2005.

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The film tells of two schoolmates who hate each other, Brittney Havers and Maya King. Brittney's rich stepfather, Niles Dunlap, dies in a plane crash . Brittney, whose birth mother died a year earlier, contrary to expectations, does not inherit the fortune of 70 million dollars, but only an annual pension of 25,000 dollars. The remainder of the inheritance would go to an organization unless a physical inheritance from the deceased is found.

Maya claims she is Dunlap's biological daughter, and in the course of the proceedings, to Brittney's astonishment, a DNA test reveals that her hated schoolmate is actually the daughter of the deceased and that his fortune is therefore awarded.

Terence Bridge, who works for the insurance company, is investigating the death of Niles Dunlap, as the sum insured on his death is $ 2 million. In the course of his investigations more and more doubts about the accident theory arise. Among other things, he doubts Julian Haynes, the coroner who performed the DNA test; After observations between the people involved, his suspicions also fall on Brittney and Maya, who seduced Julian and promised him part of the inheritance, which is why he helped them with their plan.

Julian is murdered by Brittney and Maya because they do not want to share with him, and thrown into a swamp, where alligators "take care of" the corpse. Terence discovers that Britney and Maya are behind the disappearance of Julian and the alleged murder of Niles Dunlap. He discovers that Julian examined the DNA of Maya's late father and not that of Niles Dunlap, which is why Maya was identified as the heiress. After Terence found Julian's blood on the swamp, he confronts Brittney and Maya with the allegations after visiting them both at home. He offers them to keep silent if he gets half of the fortune, so $ 35 million in hush money.

Brittney leaves the room briefly while Maya and Terence talk to each other. Terence does not know that the room is under video surveillance and Brittney recorded the part of the conversation when Terence tries to blackmail and threaten to otherwise inform the police about Julian's murder.

Brittney and Maya agree to the deal and leave the house. Brittney draws a gun and aims at Terence. Maya says she should shoot him. Brittney pulls the trigger - but she does not shoot Terence, but Maya, apparently on purpose. She forces Terence to dispose of the body; he puts the body in the car and suggests that it disappear into the swamp.

On the way to the swamp the car stops at a traffic light; Behind them is a police car and Brittney gets out of the car. Terence cannot stop them because the police car is still behind the car and he is afraid that the body would be discovered in the trunk. So he drives on alone while Brittney makes an anonymous call to the police from a phone booth and draws them to the attention of a man who is driving with a corpse in the car. Terence is caught by the police. Due to the fact that Brittney left the surveillance video in the car without Terence's knowledge and the body is in the trunk, Terence is accused of murdering Maya.

Meanwhile, Brittney gets into a private jet and flies with her stepfather, whose death turns out to be faked, to an unknown destination. Dunlap, Brittney and Maya had only faked the plane crash at the beginning of the film, as the excavated body of Maya's father was sitting in the cockpit, while Niles jumped with a parachute to fake his death in the crash. This also explains why Maya was identified as the daughter of Niles (i.e. the corpse found on the plane).

While Brittney and Niles are in the private jet, both parachutes put on. Before that, Niles doubts his stepdaughter, he doesn't know whether he can still trust her, which is why she offers him her parachute. In the conversation it is also said that both of them had already killed Brittney's mother together.

He puts on the parachute and wants to jump off. Just before he falls, Brittney yells at him that the parachute is filled with newspaper, which turns out to be true; Niles crashes. Brittney puts on a working parachute and jumps off. She is awaited by a boat in which her mother is, who everyone also believed was dead. It turns out that all previous actions by Brittney and her mother must have been planned in order to gain access to Niles' fortune get.

At the end, Brittney offers her mother a cocktail , she drinks it and talks about how strong the cocktail would be. At this point the film ends. The situation at the end of the film suggests (based on the first part) that Brittney last killed her mother with the cocktail so that she has the fortune to herself.

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The plots roll over and offer many moments of surprise, which turn out to be almost the same as in the predecessor Wild Things : it turns out that Brittney planned the entire plot from the outset in order to get to the fortune. The people who in the meantime repeatedly appeared as accomplices of Brittney were actually all victims of Brittney, who switched off her accomplices one after the other through very well planned actions after they no longer used their plan.

The director does not forego the opportunity to "whip up" the plot during the course of the film by means of detailed sex scenes of the attractive leading actresses.

The producers' expectations of the film were not particularly high, which is why it was released directly on video and DVD and did not go to theaters.

Reviews

Walter Chaw described the film on the filmfreakcentral.net website as "flirtatious" and "complacent".

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