Hooptober 7.0

FIlm 8/31 - Second film in a franchise

I watched the original in the franchise a few years back.  Admittedly, I’m a sucker for an effective jump scare and found footage supernatural creep fest, but Hell House, LLC was incredibly effective at unsettling me.  So much so that after it finished and I had to walk our dogs around our dark house I asked my wife to join me.  Me, a 50 year old lifelong horror fan.  Fucking pathetic.  True story.

All of that to explain why I delayed watching the sequel for a while.  Finding seven second entries in a franchise that I haven’t seen gave me an opportunity to fire this one up.

Well....it suffers from all the cliched sequel problems and ends up with really diminishing returns.  While there were a few solid scares and a demonic face staring at the camera will always get me, the magic trick just didn’t work as well a second time.  The lean into the mythology was a solid choice and it retconned a few of the obvious holes in the first film effectively, but it still was a sub-par effort.

I’ll probably watch the third at some point in the hope I need to ask for company on my late night dog walk again.