Hooptober 11: Your Vice is Locked Room in an Old Dark House and Only I Have the Chainsaw
#5: A series with 4 or more movies (3)
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At least the husband in this one isn’t a dick. He actually pays attention to what’s going on and doesn’t just wave it off as the wind. The wife on the other hand, yikes. If an invisible being picked my daughter up off the ground by her hair, I think I’d want to know what’s going on. 

None of the scenes in the previews were even in the final film. I understand they need to make the trailers long before they have a finished product and things get edited out down to the wire, but that’s especially egregious and a big letdown, because the previews looked great.  

It was an odd decision to make the demon connected to Kristi. In the original, Katie specifically says that the presence was always connected to her, and it always followed her, not her sister. So why did they decide to switch that for this movie? Just so they could show Kristi’s story in part 2? Also Katie said there was a fire and her family lost everything, but everyone got out OK around this time. Was that a fake memory? Did the coven set a fire to hide her parents’ murders, but replace her parents? I don’t know, the narrative gets so jumbled the more they reveal the backstory. 

The oscillating camera is a nice touch and it made for a few cool scares in the kitchen.