The dice say.......Not Scary....

Rating: 6/10 (21 September 2013)

Taking off straight from the first movie, the family are still haunted, but Josh insists to his wife and mother, to ignore The Piano, and that strange woman in White who is sitting there with her back turned to you.
But if you remember the first movie (which you will, because it features heavily in this), you will realise that there is something wrong with Josh, and all is not well in the Lambert household.
I enjoyed the first movie, it was a haunting, dread filled movie. This movie though just isn't scary, its a cattle prod movie, which means it makes you jump, because your body reacts to the loud noises that come with every single mock scare.
And there are very few that do not appear in the trailer. Okay, a woman runs out of the wardrobe, and a man attacks a boy in a hospital, but when your saying to yourself 'why is that boy allowed to be near an IVAC pump', the film isn't doing its job.
The films eerie tone lost me when you discovered that the Bride in Black is actually a man. But then Wan and Whannell do something, they make the film very interesting, and very clever.
The first film is implemented into this very efficiently, and we learn what the banging on the door was, and who that strange grunge ghost was in the first film, making it a pleasure to watch, rather than annoying, waiting for the next big noise.
So all in all, it's not a scary film by any stretch, and these quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet.........Bang!! Movies are getting a little tiresome now, but we will get a third movie, because the film basically tells us this at the end.
So when the makers focus on the storey, rather than the scares, its a joy to watch..