Grave Encounters 2: Review
Year:
2012
Stars: Richard
Harmon, Shawn C. Phillips, Jennica Fulton
Directed:
John Poliquin
Running Time:
95 mins
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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