Decent enough supernatural sequel

Rating: 7/10 (20 November 2019)

This review assumes people have already seen the original film; if you haven't seen it yet I'd definitely recommend watching it before watching this or it won't make much sense.
This film follows on shortly after the events of the first film. Josh and Renai Lambert have moved into Josh's mother's home, along with their children, and the police suspect Josh may be involved in the killing of psychic Elise Rainier. They had hoped that the strange events would have stopped but it soon becomes clear that whatever was haunting them has followed the family. Renai contacts Elise's associates, Tucker and Specs, and they start to investigate with the help of Carl, an old colleague of Elise. This leads to a series of creepy locations and the eventual identification of the being haunting the Lambert family.
Horror is a fairly personal genre; a film that will terrify one person may leave another wondering what all the fuss was about. I didn't find it all that scary but it did have its moments. It is refreshing to have modern horror that isn't particularly gory, has no particularly offensive language and no gratuitous sex/nudity... instead it achieves its goals through decent jump scares and a nice creepy atmosphere. The soundtrack impressively adds to this atmosphere. I didn't find it as good as the first film but found it enjoyable enough. The story has some interesting ideas and others that seemed to be inspired by better films... most obviously 'Psycho'. The cast does a solid enough job with the material. Overall a decent enough film if you enjoyed the first.