Cert 18
95 minutes
BBFC advice: Contains very strong violence, strong language and horror
Oh, no. Last April, I wrote about how I found Grave Encounters, a much talked-about horror film, 'painfully dull.'
No surprise then, that I didn't expect a show worthy of an Oscar nomination from Grave Encounters 2.
Indeed, it is worse than the movie which went before it - largely because it has simply repeated the formula.
In fact, worse than that, the latest Vicious Brothers' nonsense is based on the premise that the makers of Grave Encounters have all disappeared and film students are going in search of them.
So here's the first problem. If nobody knows what happened to the first bunch on Grave Encounters how was their footage found and, thus, turned into a movie?
One of so many flaws in yet another version of this ghastly found footage fad - we have now got to the stage where one a week of the genre are being released.
This wouldn't be quite so annoying if they were any good but, largely, they are howlingly awful.
Grave Encounters 2 poses all of the same questions as before including: why, at times of extreme stress, would it occur to anyone to be using a hand-held camera and, in any case, who watches these films?
The answer to the second point appears to be customers at Reel movie houses because every week the chain puts on a low level horror of this type - and consequently, I , under the guise of everyfilm, watch them.
So what happens in Grave Encounters 2?
Yes, you guessed it. The film students go back to the closed down mental hospital where the cast and crew of Grave Encounters disappeared.
Have you worked out what happens next? Well, surprise, surprise...the crew suffer exactly the same fate.
In other words they are bumped off by the evil spirits which haunt the place.
But before the ghost-seeking begins there is, of course, some footage of an out-of-hand teenage party in which semi-naked girls and grotesque puking play a part.
To be fair to director John Poliquin, the movie did make me jump once and, therefore, he earned a point.
But I was never convinced by the lead (Richard Harmon) because he seems so oblivious to the carnage around him nor the rest of the cast who follow him like lemmings.
I can't wait for Grave Encounters 3.
Laughs: none
Jumps: one
Vomit: yes, one appalling scene
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 1/10
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