A promising premise with a disappointing ending.
I've been a horror movie buff my entire life, or at least since the time my parents let me watch horror movies. Or rather, since I learned that I could quietly sneak to the top of the steps and see the TV undetected while my older brother and his friends watched horror films. Of all the found footage horror movies I have seen, the first Grave Encounters stands as one of the most impressively creepy films in its sub genre and possibly the genre as a whole. So I was pretty interested and excited to see what the second film could dish out. I went in not knowing anything about the film and in some ways was pleasantly surprised.
For a film that leaves relatively no room for an original and fresh sequel, the premise of this movie was actually pretty brilliant and well-written. The first two thirds of the film seemed to be riddled with scenes and footage that probably should have been left for the DVD extras. However the Vicious Brothers did a good job of taking the viewer on a...
A huge disappointment that came right after watching the original
After watching Grave Encounters on netflix, I was amazed on how scary the film was. Right after watching the film I read that Grave Encounters 2 had just released on Amazon Video and like a newly found fan I had to see it, only in the end of this film I came out sorely disappointed. The establishment of the characters leading to the hospital was severely long, the hospital scenes were cut off short when the original film had the long tension of the haunting, and the abysmal 3rd act with the "twist" of bringing back people was downright insulting to the realness feel of the original. While the original used the less is more scare feel, this film just exploited gore which the first film was not even about. While the first film was completely psychological horror, this one was just trying to be a mainstream horror fest that in the end should not have been in the first place. The only plus of this film was seeing a Peter Chao cameo and even that cameo threw off my immersion of watching...
A Found Footage Sequel With A Slow Start AND An Ill Conceived Finale
If you loved The Vicious Brothers and their film "Grave Encounters," they're hoping you'll flock to buy the next chapter of their horror saga creatively titled "Grave Encounters 2." Utilizing the increasingly popular "found footage" genre that combines elements of the thriller into a faux documentary presentation, "Grave Encounters" was a reasonably effective (if not spectacularly original) entry into the horror arena. It does seem that every low budget scary movie of late thinks that this is the go-to genre of filmmaking, so it's becoming more difficult to distinguish inventive works from the overcrowded pack. This sequel employs the same device to carry out the story. And it is just so tired already! But as long as the movie has something fresh to offer, found footage can still make for a thrilling visceral experience. I may not have hated "Grave Encounters 2" as much as some--but after a reasonably promising set-up, the film seemed to implode on itself with a lunatic (and ill...
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