Baja II (film) (Alternity)

Baja II is a 1997 American horror film (currently in theaters) and sequel to the 1989 hit film Baja, which was based off the Ben Corrin novel of the same name. The film follows teenage Louis Bardmann and his family as they seek to prevent a catastrophic series of events from overtaking the town of Lucaston and prevent it from suffering the same fate that befell the town of Upperton years ago.

Plot
In Lucaston, Baja California, in late February 1942, thirty-five years after the Upperton Incident, and not more than fifty miles north of the abandoned town, seventeen year-old Louis Bardmann (Edward Furlong) has just returned from a visit to the state capital of San Pedro and finds Lucaston in a panic over word of an impending Japanese attack. Louis’s visit to the state capital gave no such indication and only through the convincing tone of his 28 year-old brother Casey (Johnny Depp) – a US Army officer – is the unfounded rumor dispelled and the town’s attitude returned to a state of relative complacency. Two days later, as Casey takes his platoon for a morning exercise run on the beaches to the south of town, his command sergeant stumbles across a pile of seaweed and rotten timber. Upon searching through it amiably on orders from the sergeant, a pair of corporals are mortified to discover a small human skeleton entangled in the seaweed. Casey makes a cursory inspection of the remains, and finds several disconcerting injuries present. Hours later, Casey returns home in a disturbed mood and seals himself in his room until the next morning, during which time only his father, Simon Bardmann II (Crispin Glover), enters to talk with his oldest son. In the morning Casey and his father leave, mystifying Louis with their behavior.

Casey and his dad arrive at the town coroner's office a short time later, where the coroner tells them what they both dreaded: dating methods have placed the length of time in the water at about thirty-five years, and overall age at forty-two. Furthermore, they are mortified by the wounds Casey found earlier - a furrow across the right side of the skull (partly filled by a gritty black dust of sorts) and stab wound through the chest. Their worst fears have been confirmed: it is the remains of none other than Mark Bardmann, killed along with Casey’s granddad Charles in Upperton in September 1907. Returning home a short time later, Simon and Casey take Louis aside and tell him of the findings and of their significance. Simon tells his youngest son that in 1907, shortly after him, his mother, and sister fled across the Lucaston Gorge, he fell asleep en-route to San Diego after a brief stop in Lucaston and learned in a dream what had happened to his father and former brother, and of his father's deceit in burying Mark near the Oaxin burial ground.

To be continued...

Cast

 * Edward Furlong as Louis Bardmann
 * Johnny Depp as Casey Bardmann
 * Crispin Glover as Simon Bardmann II
 * Sean Penn as Michael Isaacs
 * Macaulay Culkin as Mark Bardmann

Future
Despite that fact the film is still in theaters, rumors are already circulating of a third movie. Paramount has so far denied rumors of a 'Baja III' project, citing the need to wait for Baja II's full run to decide if a third movie is to be made.