Grave Encounters 2 (2012)

Touches You

Thanks for the memories!

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This movie brought an interesting idea to the table - that the original was completely true and that those actors are now missing and/or dead. But the way it executes this idea is just terrible. 20+ minutes of a boring group of teens making the discovery that GE was NOT fabricated, and making the obvious decision to follow in its footsteps and sacrifice their lives for a sequel.It's not like they capture anything on tape that wasn't already done in GE - in fact the number of different scare methods are actually less. But the atmosphere is still there and watching it before bed has robbed me once again of sleep. What can I say I have a weakness for the asylum setting.The characters are kind of obnoxious compared to the previous movie, and the camera is definitely more shaky than I remembered, making this a more annoying experience than it had to be. Not to mention the ending is a major disappointment. I am not one for the 'everybody dies' endings, but the escape and the manner it was achieved kind of ruined the experience.If you loved GE you could watch this, or you could just re-watch GE for a better time.

This sequel takes everything that was decent about the first one and craps all over it.Literally, it spends an hour and a half sucking itself off with the whole "The first movie was real!" nonsense. Plus, this time around, we've got weed-smoking college kids who laugh loud and scream even louder. The effects are better, but when all they do is show giant moronic zombies chasing after the camera with that clichéd distorted movement thing that made Kayako from The Grudge so creepy (but of course, it doesn't really work here), who cares? It's got the whole half-assed package of jump scares (complete with sudden loud noises edited into the footage) and none of the cleverness of the original (yes, the original at least had SOME clever ideas and stuff, but not that much). The movie is a chore to sit through, and you'll probably find yourself constantly checking the runtime to see how much longer you have to wait for the credits.Give it a pass, or just watch the first one again. Or not. I guess it all depends on how productive you'd like to be during a quiet afternoon.

Obsessed with the original movie, a film student and his friends find the sanitarium used for the first film and try to shoot a documentary there only to find the events that were portrayed may not have been faked.Overall this one was a massive disappointment without a whole lot to really like about it. What it does get right and enjoyable is the scenes within the sanitarium as they're searching around for their film which is just about as impressive as the scenes in the original. Taking full advantage of the same setting and a lot of the same conditions as before which again results in a truly creepy and chilling atmosphere that's perfectly suited for such a movie, this one manages to pile up a rather respectable amount of time showing them running through the facility and encountering all manners of ghosts and demonic figures that go chasing them inside the lengthy darkened hallways or in the various rooms throughout here. From the bathtub encounter to the dimensional portals that show up throughout the facility that prevents them from exiting or accessing specific parts of the location to the numerous scenes of the ghosts turning their full attention to them popping out of nowhere makes for some rather impressive times here since all of these work rather well. Still, for as fun as these scenes are even they become part of the problem here as these tend to come off like retreads of the original. There's no real change-up between these and what happened before, it's just a different set of victims that comes off that way which in the end diminishes their scare factor by being so similar and familiar. Likewise, the fact that this one just takes forever to get to the sanitarium to begin with is another mark since it focuses so heavily on his obsession and tracking down the clues that it really all could've been done in one sequence where he presents all of the research to the team instead of following him around doing the investigating which severely limits the amount of time spent being scared by the ghosts lurking within that they really come off in just one small section of the film and don't really play a part elsewhere here. Finally, the film's final half is where it really loses it by throwing in a series of fantasy-related set-pieces and wholly flawed logic that is not only entirely unbelievable anyway but merely presents itself simply to keep them in danger a little while longer and pad the film out even more. All told, these here keep this one way down compared to the original.Rated R: Graphic Language and Violence.

Cliché counter:1. Women wearing tank tops where you scene of seeing down their top. 2. College kids who smoke weed, party, drink booze and talk about sex about how fantastic they are. 3. No one seems to go to class and also they are able to skip class for days and not stress about it. 4. Main character has unlimited money for transportation. 5. Over use of demon face effect (google it) 6. They witness the impossible and yet they will not take other peoples explanations or methods. 7. Predictable deaths (One scene, a kid advertises how he is going to die). 8. Pointless running off to get killed. 9. Cell phones don't work. 10. They have a Canadian accent, yet they live in the US. 11. Pointless expose scenes. 12. Filming for no reason. 13. Ghosts can do every thing, I mean EVERY thing! 14. When they are scared one guy will freak out and every one else is yelling. 15. Stupid shock scene using baby. 16. Characters will suddenly fill in the plot by claiming they read this some where, Yet they had never mention it prior to the event. 17. All characters are jerks. 18. Talking to the camera and leaving a verbal will. 19. Trying to hide from entities that are attacking them and yet some how are surprised that they got found 20. Between footage you get a split second shot of them in the mental institute. 21. They never contact the police, EVER. 22. Get lost easily, I am surprised how they make it out of their dorm alive (yes i know the reason how they get lost).