Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Grave Encounters 2: Review


Grave Encounters 2: Review

Year: 2012
Stars: Richard Harmon, Shawn C. Phillips, Jennica Fulton
Directed: John Poliquin
Running Time: 95 mins


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This is the second instalment of Grave Encounters. This one only written by the Vicious Brothers and directed by John Poliquin ( Pretty much his first major directing role) on an unknown budget this time. Richard Harmon (lots of TV series such as continuum and some minor acting roles to his name) stars as Alex Wright a film student obsessed with the viral trailer for the first movie. Him a few friends investigate and end up going to the same hospital in the original film.
The beginning of this movie shows a bunch of bloggers/podcasters reviewing the original film in the style of fake found footage films like Paranormal Activity, some like it some don’t.
The movie proper starts on October 31st 2011 in a party there’s your typical youngsters either getting high or getting drunk or getting on girls. From the onset it’s clear this isn’t in the same leg of the first film.
The last blogger to speak is one of the party goers he’s late due to reviewing the film, seemingly at least. He’s seemingly pissed of there’s no modern day Wes Cravens or John Carpenters and voices his opinion loudly.
Like I said this movie doesn’t have the same oomph factor that the first instilled in me as I began to watch it, no innovative little winks are anything its back to a teen slasher even with the pothead that is exactly what the kid is protesting about irony hey?
A YouTube stalker sends Alex a video and some cryptic clues a bit later which he follows to places and learns where the film was filmed and heads to the location. The movie also has intersections of a film Alex is making through out there which Alex isn’t too pleased with. When all the clues are followed they incite his film maker side and he realises that a brilliant film to make would be one based on the original Grave Encounters film.
Anyway effects wise it’s pretty much the same as the first, the film isn’t bad for its genre it just didn’t have the same feel as the first or characters you could understand. To me at least like I said they say about cliché and then they make a teen slasher flick?
There are some good points like later on in the film where after they lose some of their friends they meet Lance Preston from the first movie. The movie picks up a little from here and is well acted by the guy playing Lance.
So that’s about all I’m going to say on this film I’ll give it a reasonable 3 out of 5 stars just because it does follow, breakthrough on my blog of a real footage film actually making me enjoy it.
Give it a go see what you think THN.

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