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Grave Encounters 2 (Review)

MV5BMTM2NTIzMDQ0NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTQ3NTM0OA@@._V1_SY317_CR0,0,214,317_For those of you who watched GRAVE ENCOUNTERS and enjoyed it, you’re going to be disappointed. I was one of those who liked it. And for those of you who didn’t like GRAVE ENCOUNTERS well there isn’t much reason to take a chance on the sequel. For that reason I’m going to stick with the optimists who liked the first film and want to check out the second.

The basic tie-in is relying on that fact that there are people out there who supposedly believe the first film was in fact REAL! One such video blogger, Alex, a student filmmaker, reluctantly begins to believe these stories after he gets a video response. It is footage of Lance, the only survivor, still roaming the halls of the hospital. Now Alex is on a mission to prove there has been a cover up by the film’s producers. What better way to expose the lies than to revisit the hospital where it all took place and make his own “GRAVE ENCOUNTERS DOCUMENTARY”.

At this point you pretty much get more of the same. Setting up cameras, wandering through hallways, slamming doors, screaming ghosts, getting lost and getting killed. However, this time there is a big red door and some floating cameras to mix it up. I’ll admit there were a couple good jump scares and the creep factor stayed with me for a bit. I did like the homage to BLAIR WITCH, and the scene explaining away the Vicious Bros. Beyond that, disappointing.

The charm of the first movie was the debunking aspect, the behind the scenes dig on the reality shows of today. This film turned out to be just another found footage movie. If there wasn’t GRAVE ENCOUNTERS to tie this film into, it wouldn’t have gotten a second look.

If you liked the first film, skip the first act, jump right to the hospital and enjoy the last 55 minutes.

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Mitchell Wells

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Society. Self proclaimed Horror Movie Freak, Tech Geek, love indie films and all around nice kinda guy!!

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