After seeing this the actual house in the film i had a vague memory of seeing the first one however really cannot remember so i can't comment on if this was a worthy sequel.
Ill start with the few GOOD points. - The film is set up well, the characters are quite well defined - with a sustainable introducing story horror which is believable. Moving on to when they are in the house. As in most horrors the music creates tension and an eeriness which definitely happens in this film and i definitely jumped a few times!
As for the gore - there is quite a bit and it is in your face quite frequently, so you can see all of what is happening to the characters (for example when A man wont say who... is getting his head slowly cut open and his brain being pulled out)
Now for the BAD points.
The gore and nastiness falls into both good and bad points. The reason i find it a weakness in the film is that the blood and guts is just too in your face. Meaning you see what happens in front of you, and if you thinking about it many of the most successful horror films use psychological horror tehchniques in order to scare you. Usually the most horrific sequences in horror films are the ones where they quickly cut away to the main action leaving your mind to imagine the horrific things that are happening, which doesn't happen at all in this movie.
Moving onto the acting it just wasn't consistently good throughout. As for the story as i said before it is set up well as a horror film but drastically changes to a fantasy film - taking away the sense of realism to the story, as some of the horror sequences and genuinely scary. Which dampened the story a bit.
Overall, this is a good film but easily forgettable. It does have some very nasty parts in it ... really its just a load of fun and gore.
6/10
Ill start with the few GOOD points. - The film is set up well, the characters are quite well defined - with a sustainable introducing story horror which is believable. Moving on to when they are in the house. As in most horrors the music creates tension and an eeriness which definitely happens in this film and i definitely jumped a few times!
As for the gore - there is quite a bit and it is in your face quite frequently, so you can see all of what is happening to the characters (for example when A man wont say who... is getting his head slowly cut open and his brain being pulled out)
Now for the BAD points.
The gore and nastiness falls into both good and bad points. The reason i find it a weakness in the film is that the blood and guts is just too in your face. Meaning you see what happens in front of you, and if you thinking about it many of the most successful horror films use psychological horror tehchniques in order to scare you. Usually the most horrific sequences in horror films are the ones where they quickly cut away to the main action leaving your mind to imagine the horrific things that are happening, which doesn't happen at all in this movie.
Moving onto the acting it just wasn't consistently good throughout. As for the story as i said before it is set up well as a horror film but drastically changes to a fantasy film - taking away the sense of realism to the story, as some of the horror sequences and genuinely scary. Which dampened the story a bit.
Overall, this is a good film but easily forgettable. It does have some very nasty parts in it ... really its just a load of fun and gore.
6/10