Overdone, unoriginal, cheap scares

Rating: 4/10 (23 February 2019)

Unlike the first film, this one is comprised entirely of jumpscares and common cliche tropes such as spooky ghost kid, entity in reflections behind someone, bite marks, moving furniture and (of course) throwing someone across the room unexpectedly.
There isn't really any form of a creeping sense of dread throughout it. You get to see the entity up front in it's entirety most of the time it's around and honestly it's not really that scary. Especially the "crooked man". There's not really any subtlety to leave the viewer guessing what's going to happen and you can see what's coming around pretty much every turn.
The acting is good, but they make it glaringly clear that they're acting, if that makes sense.
Not a great sequel, and wouldn't really work on a stand-alone unless you're easily scared. Jumpscares get everybody, and that's the crutch in this film.
4/10 but only because the production was pretty great.