La Ligne du Diable II - Aux portes de l'enfer (1992)

Anecdotes

976-EVIL II is a 1991 American supernatural horror film directed by Jim Wynorski. The film is a sequel to the 1988 horror film 976-EVIL. It was referenced in Invasion of the Scream Queens (1992). 976-Evil II premiered at the MIFED festival in Italy in October 1991 and was subsequently released on VHS in the United States on April 22, 1992.

Production

The film was directed by Jim Wynorski, who had gained a reputation for making numerous sequels, such as Deathstalker 2. "People would just come to me and ask," said Wynorski. "And I always said 'yes'. I wanted the money and the experience. There were only a couple of films that I turned down. I always wanted to make a sequel only if the previous film was bad. There wasn't much point to a sequel if the previous release was really great.

Wynorski later said, "I hate that film... It was tough to make. I was handed a script, and I didn't think it was very good." The only part of the film he liked was a sequence in which a female student was meant to be sucked into a Pac-Man machine. This was too expensive to film, so Wynorski came up with the idea, based on a dream, to recreate a scene from It's a Wonderful Life (1946). He could do this because that film was in the public domain.

The film featured Brigitte Nielsen in a small role. Wynorski met her at a party, and they played pool together. Wynorski challenged her to a wager - if he won, she would do a day for him for scale on his next picture; if she won, he would "put on a maid's outfit and clean your house. And she was up for that. We had a good game; it was close, but I won." So Nielsen did a day on the film. Wynorski said she did "an ok job...

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