Directed by John Poliquin
So this is kinda different than the super hero movies I've been commenting on XD
I haven't seen the first one, but I think 2 references it more than enough to know what has happened. First off, if you don't enjoy found footage style films, you won't enjoy this.
In a sort of Human Centipede 2 fashion, Grave Encounters 2 follows a young film student who's obsessed with a movie called Grave Encounters. He doesn't end up sewing people together, but he ends up following the journey to a haunted abandoned asylum in Canada where the people from the first movie went missing. The location is revealed to him through a YouTube stalker sending him messages...
Alex, our horror film-obsessed main character, is convinced that the movie Grave Encounters was not fiction like the public has been told, but is true and all the cast and crew has met their demise. He drags his film student friends with him up to Canada to check out the building, filming everything (yes, this is more or less a Canadian film with mostly Canadian talent and shooting done in Canada). Once their, the friends realize Alex isn't just a crazy horror buff weirdo--he's actually right. Grave Encounters was a not fiction! And the same fate is about to befall them!
Frantic to get out of the building, the friends try to escape but get split up. One by one the characters die off (original, I know). Eventually the remaining group members happen to cross paths with a member of the original film who has somehow managed to survive in the building for 9 years!
He says that there is a way out, through a random free standing door that's chained shut. Fortunately they kids have a bolt cutter with them because they broke into the building. The survivor, however, turns against them! The possessed building, which can change it's inside layout similarly to The River's river which is why they didn't just leave in the beginning, has made plans that only 1 person will get out. And survivor Lance wants it to be him...
Alex wants it to be himself, and tries to take down Lance, and the only other person left, girlfriend Jennifer. Lance gets sucked through a portal to somewhere horrible, and Alex mercilessly takes out his own girlfriend on/with his camera. The building lets him out with the catch that he must finish the film...
So the beginning of the movie is poo. It's slow, and at one point there's film-ception and you're like wtf? Since when did I start watching this? When it ends up being the film student's project er something.
If you can suffer through that then there's some good stuff to be scene, namely the weird giant humanoid figure (as seen in the photo above) that chases the students through the building. If you enjoyed Rec then this'll probably be and enjoyable chunk of the film for you. Humanoid creatures I dig in films; different enough from humans to be scary, but closer enough to human form to be scarier.
Lol I remember looking at this pic while I was on my The Descent/The Descent Part 2 kick and found it really interesting.
Not super scary or super original, but it's not horrible. In my opinion it's at least better than Silent Hill: Revelation... It's a good one time watch for horror fans.
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