Katie Featherston Katie. Micah Sloat Micah. Brian Boland Daniel Rey. Molly Ephraim Ali Rey. Sprague Grayden Kristi Rey. Vivis Colombetti Martine. William Prieto Hunter.
Jackson Prieto Hunter. Tod Williams Director. Perry Screenwriter. Christopher Landon Screenwriter. Tom Pabst Screenwriter. Jason Blum Producer. Oren Peli Producer. Steven Schneider Executive Producer. Akiva Goldsman Executive Producer. Michael Simmonds Cinematographer. Jennifer Spence Production Design. Gregory Plotkin Film Editor. Kristin M. Burke Costume Designer. Elizabeth R. Rosenbaum Set Decoration. Michael Hothorn Casting. View All Critic Reviews Jan 06, Longer and more complex, but not as scary as the first film, relying too much on the same tricks that just aren't as effective this time around.
Edward B Super Reviewer. Feb 22, Just like the first it's slow and not allot happens until the last 20 minutes, But there was a few more jumps on the way, Choosing to make it a prequel paid off, But most of the time we find ourselves watching security cameras hoping for something to happen then being let down. Jamie C Super Reviewer.
Jan 07, I would recommend this. Wahida K Super Reviewer. Oct 23, It goes in a completely different direction to the original film, which I actually never found scary in the first place.
Where as the original film made you care about the characters and had an eery atmosphere that didn't affect me but really got to some people on a psychological level, this lazily structured cash-in prefers to sit around doing nothing and then occasionally go "bang!
That's how lazy it is, this is a disgrace to horror and brings a bad name to the whole genre. Even though it fails on each level in following the formula of the first one it embarssingly does it even worse. It's constantly reminding us that it's based on true events but it never maintains any sense of realism because of the bad acting and the incredibly annoying cardboard cut out characters.
It features a dog and a baby, that's all that's new. When all else fails it desperately succumbs to making us sympathise rather than cower behind our seats. Having said that it's clearly a film that has such contempt for it's audience that it doesn't care about making anything work, other than constructing a very slight likeness to the original. Which then just makes it incredibly predictable and then consequently, it's never scary, at all.
I watched it in the dark, alone, and I never even flinched. It's one of those film's just dripping of the exact definition, of the saddest, most badly structured cash cow's, that really makes you think that Hollywood is running completely dry of ideas. And also that studios churning out horror movies have to take an admirable film festival creation, namely, the first Paranormal Activity, and then turn it into another lackluster franchise product churned off of the mainstream horror production line.
A woman yells at a teen girl. A teen girl investigates strange occurrences and reads passages referring to ghosts and demons and haunted houses. A man refers to a ritual a woman does as "weird witchy stuff" and says that she's "slaughtering goats. A woman discusses being scared all the time as a child. A woman describes how another woman was afraid as a child, and that she would cry all the time and didn't sleep.
We read that a man was killed. We understand that a teen girl's mother has died. Two women talk about their mother and there is some suggestion of her being mentally unstable.
A man says that he cannot get his wife out of bed, and that something's wrong with her. A teen girl screams and yells about something she finds in her toilet presumably feces, but we do not see anything. A teen girl talks to her baby brother about "making poops all the time. A man refers to a woman's "hormones" being out of whack. LANGUAGE 5 - About 9 F-words, 5 sexual references, 10 scatological terms 2 mild , 1 anatomical terms, 1 mild obscenities, name-calling weird, insane, tool, creepy , 9 religious exclamations.
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Just go to our search page or use the search bar, with or without a keyword, from the top navigation menu. User reviews Review. Top review. Paranormal Activity 2 , Close but not quite enough. Saw the movie today. Only a handful of people in the theatre but it was a show. Here goes I had some mixed feelings about PA2. I would sum it up as not quite good enough.
It's a decent flick but can't measure up to the original with the scares or the ending. Actually for me, the ending felt somewhat rushed and just wasn't that scary. Disturbing, yes. And the pace was a tad slow at times. The film does in my opinion, an excellent job actually, at establishing the introduction of the characters and very nicely ties in the events of this film with PA though there are some unanswered questions. Why if Katie's sister is having problems with things going all "paranormal" doesn't Katie then mention this while talking about it to Micah when filming during their paranormal events.
And how did that burnt pic get into their attic? But I digress. I had mixed reactions to the explaining as it were, of the demon's intent and motives outlined by the one of the character that actually uses their brain in this movie and does some investigative work. I thought it an interesting twist that nicely tied the events of both movies through the obviously frustrated demon and ultimately using Katie to get the job done though it had some help from one character that ultimately involves betrayal.
People should be talking about this. One major nitpick? The slow buildup up in tension never comes close to delivering anything to what PA did and I really let down with the general lack of overall good scare moments and just how few and far between the great ones there were.
I was hugely disappointed with this. My biggest nitpick of the movie. The best ones take place in the kitchen and with the daughter on the couch. That entire sequence in the basement where the mother takes the baby, was annoying and fell flat. Not going to lie to you, that second kitchen scare got me though.
One of the few truly, good scare moments. Also, the the scene with the daughter sleeping on the couch is another. Why, oh why, couldn't they have had more scenes like this? What she experienced was genuinely creepy. I just wished they had more of these types of scares throughout the movie. It would have been brilliant. And what was the deal with the demon and the basement? Unlike others, I found the acting was just fine in my books.
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