Solid if overall rather decent haunting effort

Rating: 8/10 (4 April 2017)

Attempting to move on in their careers, the famous couple is brought to a case in England involving a single mother who believes that her home is possessed only to find that it's targeted their teenage daughter and must try to stop the demonic entity from haunting them.
Overall this one wasn't all that bad of a sequel effort. When this one works, it's due to the usual round of high-intensity supernatural action set-pieces that are quite prominent in this style. Those early hauntings, from the first instances of the demonic happenings in the bedroom where it appears out of the shadows of their toys to scare him or the later scene of it throwing the bookshelf against the door in front of everyone, are genuinely creepy moments that work rather well here, and along with the special series of stalking scenes later on that really makes a much more prominent atmosphere that lets the scares come rather nicely. The scenes of the possessed daughter throwing around the furniture in the house, appearing as the demonic spirits to torment the family or the different sessions attempting to exorcise the spirit in front of the different sets of experts that are there to help them all give this one some rather intense and chilling encounters. Other big scenes, from the spirits' attack in the bedroom where it traps her in the locked room and begins wrapping her in the sheets as well as the big showcase freak-out in front of the research team where it appears to be all faked for their perspective that leads into the utterly thrilling finale as they finally attempt to wrest her from its control makes it all quite fun as there's a lot of chilling suspense in the ghostly figures appearing around the house, the action of needing to rescue her up in the bedroom and the attempt to confront the demon once and for all ends this one with a ton of fun and a great overall feel. Given that this one keeps the interest up once it gets to these scenes featuring plenty of continuous action to keep it going, there's plenty to like here even with a few minor flaws here. The biggest issue here is the rather cliché and unimpressive ghostly attacks which are found in the first half which is mainly a part of the demon nun attacking her in their house as these are typical and expected scares. Playing with shadows, close- ups of roaring demonic faces out of nowhere and intense scenes that prove to be dream sequences all show up throughout here, and they all drop off rather quickly than the films' later demonic scares. They're a part of the film's other problem in the exaggerated length that really didn't need to be, as the first half here is way too long in getting them over to the house so it feels a little lopsided in terms of action here. These do hold it back although it's not enough to really be a detriment.
Rated R: Violence, Language, children-in-jeopardy and underage smoking.