[Movie] Grave Encounters 2

Really? They made a sequel of this… oh well, it couldn't be as bad as the first one, could it? Oh, wait… And so, since they made a couple of millions with the prequel, the producers decided to give it another go, and they didn't find any better way than making fun of all the online reviewers who panned their previous effort. Asshole move, of course, but since it sorta set the track for what the movie was going to be about, I think that not much can be said about it. A group of kids who saw the first film and believed it was real, decide to go to the same hospital and find out by themselves what really happened there. Of course, they had to put the token "hot girl" in there (Tessa) to lure in the male audience, and the pretty boys (Alex and Trevor) to target the teeny fangirls… all too predictable.



Anyway, I think that since this time around they went more for an actual film vibe, rather than a mockumentary one, they decided to be more outlandish with the plot development, starting with that Ouija board that moved by itself and told them that pretty much the hospital itself wanted them to "film everything". From then on, crap hits the fan and it's just one ridiculous moment followed by another (like the "fake escape", where they exit the building, go to their hotel, and then find themselves inside the hospital again).

The guys who are surviving the mayhem by this point in the movie, find the original guy from the first movie (Lance Preston), who is now all insane with long hair and really ripped (apparently feeding on rats is good for your overall fitness, go figure). Then, the final plot twist is revealed, with a red door that leads to nowhere being the key to everything: you just have to kill everyone else and promise to finish the film in order to be granted exit of the building, easy enough, huh? So a dimensional vortex opens, sucks Lance in, the one young guy kills his possible girlfriend, and leaves the place, the end.



Oh, wait, no.. then we see the same cheesy producer from the first film, saying that everything was fake and that the guy who survived was a really talented filmmaker and what not. At that point I couldn't care less, not even for the after-credits scene, which doesn't tell us anything we didn't know already.

Let's trust that they won't make a third part of this series, because two of this is all I can take nowadays. Not as bad as the first one, but really terrible regardless.

Tags: (Movies) Horror