Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 2. March 5 1979
Lives Again
Lives Again
It seems a general rule that sequels are [ unclear: t] best only half as good as the films they [ unclear: liow]. Jaws II and Damien: Omen II for [ unclear: utance], both had their moments, but fail [ unclear: d] to recreate the intensity of mood the [ unclear: ginal] had. All that was left was a [ unclear: reorking] of characters and situation as [ unclear: mehtnical] as Bruce the shark. But for a few [ unclear: ice] technical flourishes, these films were [ unclear: ull].
So it was interesting to see a sequel [ unclear: athout] having seen its predecessor, which [ unclear: it] my position in seeing Larry Cohen's Lives Again. And what can I say? If [ unclear: 'i] Alive! is indeed better than this sequel, must be very good indeed. It Lives [ unclear: gain] is s well-paced, nicely controlled, [ unclear: irprisingly] effective piece of work.