I liked Grave Encounters, no horsing around when I say that. The film is legitimately fun, while by all means imperfect. It's filled with the saddest-made CGI, but you get scared anyway; and characters that are forgettable the moment their lives were taken, but you remain invested in the film. As product, the film landed on a sequel, not even after a year it was first released - the film was sleeper hit, which managed to built a small cult followers from the indie scene (myself included).
The concept was pretty simple and consistent. Grave Encounters 2 utilizes the faux-supernatural docu-style - in the first film a film crew goes over an abandoned Asylum mainly just because it was creepy, it's interior and exteriors, but were faced in a grave ordeal. Enter its successor, following an aspiring horror filmmaker named Alex (Richard Harmon) who is convinced that Grave Encounters (the film) is actual real footage, and that the events depicted in the movie happened for real. As consequence, he talks his film schoolmates to tag along with him to the Asylum and investigate what's real and what's bogus with the film. Of course, they're not prepped for what's more horrendous that's about to happen.
The film feels kind of an inside joke, and be it as such, I would understand very much. I'd understand very much if this is The Vicious Brothers's lark, I really do. Until the last frame of the movie, it felt half self-parody and half-serious work. If it is then serious, Grave Encounters 2 has its merits worth for a commend anyway. First-time director John Poliquin knew from the commencement of the reel how to further expand the terrors in the same setting - the building used is freakishly huge and innately creepy although this isn't taken advantage of. Poliquin knows how to keep the interest lit, but creativity is what remains faded. A reason why the movie feels like a rehash to the first, but ironically, when he pursues change, it sort of feels like something far-fetched.
The acting is quite loud, with the exception of Harmon, who is given a character subtly written it becomes delicious - The Vicious Brothers did a good job mitigating the obsession in Harmon's character, giving him a decent role to work with. What I find most likable about Alex, however, was his dismissive thoughts on horror films that uses too much CGI. Unbeknownst to him he's in one movie of that kind. Although largely improved, Grave Encounters remained reliant on computer graphics that are too noticeable to be taken seriously anyway. Other performances are too loud and obnoxious that your nerves will pop one by one. "What the fuck, Alex? Let's get out of here," someone you never care who was will cry out loud, "Oh. My. God! What the fuck was that? Fuck".
Grave Encounters 2 pays too much homage to its first film, like literally it does. And while equally frightening, it falls short on creativity and execution to stay close to the movie that it extols. Or it parodies of. Or maybe both. B
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