Grave Encounters 2 (2012)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 100 minuten
Country:
Canada / United States
Directed by: John Poliquin
Stars: Reese Alexander, Stephanie Bennett and Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
IMDb score:
5,1 (30.936)
Releasedate: 12 October 2012
Grave Encounters 2 plot
"Fear is just a word. Reality is much worse."
A group of film students decide to break into the Collingwood psychiatric hospital, where the reality show 'Grave Encounters' is filmed, to conduct their own paranormal investigation. They soon find out that 'Grave Encounters' was not fiction, but the terrible reality.
Actors and actresses
Alex Wright
Tessa Hamill
Lance Preston
Trevor Thompson
Jennifer Parker
Jared Lee
Hospital Security Guard
Jerry Hartfield
Kaitlin
Officer
Reviews & comments
Insignificance
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- 3220 messages
- 5589 votes
Nice to get such a sequel going by using the first as a film, basing a story on it and also making a lot of noise. Less is that it comes with a bunch of really annoying film students and that it starts to feel more and more like one big joke that plays with the complications that some horror sequels sometimes have to contend with.
For someone as obsessed with Grave Encounters as Alex, he certainly didn't learn much from it. It also gets in the way of the ghost party quite a bit. The build-up of the previous one is gone, Poliquin just cuts in when the stuff is finally on location. There is sometimes something nice in between, but it does not get blood-curdling by a long shot.
All a bit on the bland side. Just like the feint is, although it can still be appreciated in itself. That doesn't exactly apply to Preston's return. Yes, insane all the way through, but not in an appealing way. Rather the opposite. It is still hectic, especially because of the found footage approach with all kinds of different cameras, but that's it.
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Shadowed
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- 12059 messages
- 7052 votes
Fewer.
I thought part 1 was quite an exciting film at the time, but this part leaves little of that tension. This is mainly a comedy film that briefly touches on the horror, but otherwise mainly sinks into a tame thriller and an almost science fiction-like finale.
I don't really remember much about part 1, except that it contained quite a few exciting moments. I don't remember whether that part had a long introduction, for example, but this part is very colorful in terms of introductions. At least 40 minutes have passed before the first threats pass by.
When those threats come, they are often very cool, but also limited. It briefly seems to fall into a repetition of part 1, but in the end it gets its own twist. It's just that that twist just isn't that special or fun that I would have rather just seen a rerun.
The acting is also fairly weak, the better work actually comes from some crew members that we also saw walking around in part 1. Furthermore, it is all a bit weak, but you run that risk if you replace almost your entire adult cast with teenagers. They are often just a little less experienced.
Visually further in the lines of part 1. Slightly bigger and more spectacular, but not necessarily better. The finale with the hole in the wall wasn't necessary from me. Furthermore, it just lacks tension, part 1 contained enough of it but there is not much left of it here. A few scares and pursuits, but not enough to keep the viewer in suspense. That did the previous part better, which left the viewer in suspense for a longer period of time.
Sadly quite a disappointment. Not exciting or scary enough and with a boring and much too long introduction. Nice that it occasionally fools the first part, but it's only small details that make the film better. Moderate follow-up. I wonder if part 3 will ever come.
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JollyMira
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- 216 messages
- 560 votes
Usually the original is better than the sequel, but I found this one slightly better than the first
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
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