Grave Encounters 2

Plot synopsis:
Film student Alex Wright and his friends Jennifer Parker, Trevor Thompson, Tessa Hamill, and Jared Lee all decide to produce a documentary about the original Grave Encounters movie, which the entire public aside from Alex believes to be fake. Alex posts an online plea for any information about the film and receives a message from someone named "DeathAwaits6". The message leads him to the mother of Sean Rogerson, the actor who played Lance in Grave Encounters. She believes that Sean is still alive but they discover from her caretaker that she has severe dementia and does not realize that her son is actually dead.
Alex realizes the cast and crew from the first movie are all missing or have died (except for the directors, The Vicious Brothers, who we learn are actually interns of the first film's producer, Jerry Hartfield, and were not directly involved thus sparing their lives). He receives a mysterious message leading him to Hartfield, who confesses that the film was actual found footage. Discovering that the Collingwood Mental Hospital from the movie is actually an abandoned asylum in Canada, Alex and his friends travel to there to meet DeathAwaits6, where they discover a Ouija board. Using it to communicate with spirits, they realize that their online contact is not a person, but a paranormal entity, which turns violent and forces the group to flee. Alex decides the group should leave but not until they gather all the cameras.
The group unsuccessfully tries to escape, resulting in the deaths of Jared (violently hurled out of the room with the cursed window and falls to his death) and Tessa (spinal cord severed). The survivors also witness the death of the asylum's security guard by electrocution. Fleeing from one of the spirits, the group manages to escape the hospital and return back to the hotel, at which point they decide to abandon the project and flee.
However, to their dismay, the hotel's elevator leads the group back to the tunnels beneath the hospital. There, they meet the actor Sean Rogerson and discover that he has been trapped inside for over nine years, lobotomized and driven insane. Rogerson explains that the reason the hospital is like this is due to Dr. Arthur Friedkin's satanic experiments and rituals which merged the spirit world and the real. He then shows them a red door in one of the rooms and tells them it is the only way out, but it is wrapped in chains that require a chain cutter to remove that is lost (the instrument is in a tool bag left behind by Trevor in one of the rooms) and eventually retrieved.
While the group sleeps for the night, Rogerson, compelled by Dr. Friedkin's demonic voice, kills Trevor, then steals the team's equipment to cut the chains on the red door. He goes through it, only to realize the door leads nowhere. In a mental frenzy, he begins talking to the entities, who instruct Rogerson to continue killing.
Having woken up and realizing Rogerson and their equipment are missing, Alex and Jennifer explore and stumble upon Friedkin's satanic altar as he performs a lobotomy, then the sacrifice of an infant. The couple flees and encounter Rogerson, who demands them to hand over their tapes in order to "finish" the film, which is the only way to escape the hospital. Alex refuses and Rogerson tries to kill him.
During the struggle, a void opens up on the wall and sucks Rogerson in. Realizing that Rogerson was being honest in how to escape, Alex kills Jennifer thus completing the film. He then exits the hospital through the red door, which leads him to the outskirts of Los Angeles. He is soon arrested while walking down the street at night. The last scene shows that the footage has been made into a film, with Alex and producer Jerry Hartfield claiming that everything the public sees has been staged and that it is "just a movie". However, Alex tells the interviewers not to go anywhere near the hospital because "it's not worth it".
The film ends, cutting to a black screen with the numbers "49, 14, 122, 48" appearing on screen for a split second, which, if Google searched, comes up as Riverview Hospital (Coquitlam), the hospital where the movie was filmed.

Tags: insanity, dark, murder, haunting

Review:
Grave Encounters wasn't all that original a found footage horror but, The Vicious Brothers did have some clever fun with the conventions and made an entertaining and spooky tale of a crew of a paranormal investigation show coming up against something they can't handle at an abandoned insane asylum.
The film then tediously takes over 40 minutes to finally get our characters into the asylum, after a very "Catfish" first act, and once we're there, we are treated to a retread of Grave Encounters part 1 that also blatantly lifts scenes directly from previous found footage flicks like Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity.
Maybe it's because The Vicious Brothers hand the directing reigns to John Poliquin who gives us a film that is populated with pretentious and annoying characters and comes across as very set up and phony instead of spooky and scary.
First off you must know going into this I knew what to expect, a "found footage" horror film sequel.
In the end I got what I expected, an alright found footage film and a probably 'worse than the first' sequel.Conclusion: If you're bored yeah I'd suggest it.Who should watch it: Grave Encounters Fan?
First Movie Was Nice Surprise, This Is Not. The first Grave Encounters was a decent enough found footage horror flick that had just enough humor and jump scenes to make it a somewhat likable watch.
This is a pretty much a bland rehashing with new, boring characters in the same, now boring setting of a closed down hospital.The first Grave Encounters was a reminder that you can sometimes find something to like in a low budget, no name of a movie streaming on Netflix.
The plot holes, the constant screaming, terrible acting, stupid character decisions and very cheap special effects, just don't let you enjoy the movie.
After all, it is a plus.The most annoying thing about this movie however is that it takes too long for the good part to start, but when it does you're in for a half-scary half-laughable ride.
I'm getting tired of the whole asylum and crazy doctor concept (Return to the House on the haunted hill, an episode of Supernatural and now Grave Encounters...it's getting old) Having said that, I quite enjoyed the movie.
Horror sequels are usually terrible at best.This film, Grave Encounters 2, proved to me that a good found footage sequel can happen.
However the quantity and quality of what scares you seems to have gone down from the first film.The Good: Very solid plot build up and great connection to the first film, characters were realistic, the scares were good, the same haunting anticipation was there in the first, great atmosphere, originality, A good mind boggle.The Bad: Not NEARLY as scary as the first, it does well but doesn't hold a light to the first one in my opinion.
I mention that as a positive but I also feel it works against its effective atmosphere in comparison to the first one.My Criticism: I believe if they worked more on making the film terrify you then trying to establish the story and connect the dots to the first one it would have come out way more sharp.
HOWEVER it is still greatly entertaining horror that should make you feel scared at a few parts for sure!The Verdict: Still a great sequel worthy of your time and will give you some good scares.
"Grave Encounters 2" is among the worst movies in the style "reality show" and I do not understand why we can't give "zero" stars in IMDb to garbage like this.
GRAVE ENCOUNTERS wasn't only the best lost footage horror film I'd probably ever seen but also the best full length horror film I'd seen over the last few years and caused me to jump out of my seat several times .
Any anticipation I had in looking forward to the sequel was tamed in the knowledge that the original directors The Vicious Brothers had been replaced by John Poliquin and on top of that lost footage film isn't a sub-genre that has much scope so decided to watch it with expectations rather low Just as well because even in sequel terms CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 2 is a massive let down .
Maybe but for a few seconds I honestly thought I wasn't watching GRAVE ENCOUNTERS 2 but rather a montage of youtube reviews of the original film which is bizarre to say the least .
I don't know if it was because I saw GRAVE ENCOUNTERS recently but the scares and unearthly horrors seen here weren't as effective as they were in the original probably down me knowing what was coming next .
It turned what the original movie was, genuinely creepy, into this far fetched cheesy idea that is grave encounters 2.
Let me start off by saying that 'Grave Encounters' is and will probably always be my favourite found-footage horror movie for the following 3 reasons.
Since it's a sequel to overall descent found footage movie "Grave Encounters", I should mention something about first one.First one wasn't all too original, it fallowed the standard clichés of the genre (both horror and found footage), but it did some cleaver things with tired old clichés, like characters filming episode of (fictional) TV show, only to encounter the real deal.
You can't be fast paced for first half an hour, then go slug for the next half hour.Final act of the movie is ridiculous, it's obvious people behind these two movies had intention of making this a long sequel series that will never end (yeah Saw, it's your fault!) and you can just feel it.
Some film students decide to go to the location of "Grave Encounters" in order to "find out the truth." And the main character, Alex (Richard Harmon), is being directed by e-mails from a mysterious person named "Death Awaits".They used some absurd reason to drum up a part two.
To their horror, not long after entering Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, they soon find out that the events that happened there before were very real.This installment is really nothing like the first one in being that it is supposed to be filmed like a documentary and have you actually believe that these are real people documenting real events.
Any credibility it had of being a "documentary" before this is completely tossed out.Grave Encounters 2 only JUST scraped a "decent" rating for me purely because of the scares that are in the middle of the movie when the students are moving through the asylum to look for paranormal activity.
Grave Encounters (2011) was an independent horror film that gained traction after having an interesting premise which was having a setting in an abandoned asylum.
The "leader", if you want to call him that, Alex Wright (Richard Harmon) is a vlogger who reviewed the original Grave Encounters (2011) film and began doing research on it.
This particular plot line is certainly no longer original, but what makes it even less effective is the build up to that particular plot point.The first third of the film spends its time getting its audience familiar with the characters before even getting to the asylum.
but executed it falls short on almost every level.There's almost no joke that works (from the "director" of horror movies who's just trying to break out with something original, to the "bad acting" in movies to many other things).
I watched the first Grave Encounters film, and while it was somewhat enjoyable, it was instantly forgettable.This sequel makes its predecessor look like Citizen Kane.
It starts out rather dumb as there is a long intro scene at the beginning of the teens at a party drinking, smoking, and all those other obnoxious things that makes any horror movie "Cliché." This lasts about 10 minutes and serves no real purpose to the plot.
Considering the dreck the found-footage division of horror was treated with recently, watching it wasn't a totally mindblowing experience, but a fulfilling and nourishing one, employing cautiously used technology with an effective story to make a pretty entertaining film.
So entertaining, they couldn't leave the film alone and had to make a sequel, adding to the line of good of movies with an inferior, drab sequel attached to it.Grave Encounters 2 is a seriously confused muddle of a movie.
This throws a fork in its continuity of the original film, and already stretches the bounds of plausibility, as if no demons or paranormal activity ever took place.This time we focus on Adam (Richard Harmon), a college-kid away at film school, shooting movie reviews on Youtube to "get his name out there" and currently filming his own horror film.
After that, Adam, Trevor, and his filmmaking pals decide to venture out to the psychiatric hospital, named "Collingwood," where the first film was shot to shoot a documentary on the possible legitimacy of the original Grave Encounters movie.I was taken by how much I enjoyed the film's first half; it was breezy, intriguing, if sometimes tedious with the amount of partying, and set the stage for a perfect direction the film could've easily managed.
This is when a film nudges the audience in a winking-sort of way, makes its characters trickier and more alert by giving them a better heads up on clichés of the horror genre (even though the audience knows they might as well be lambs to slaughter), and feels like a "how many times can we remind the audience we setting up something 'new?'" ordeal.
I liked the characters, the story was interesting, and the effects were very real looking, there is somewhat of a surprise ending which make the whole thing come together.
I started watching this movie with my mind already set to that it would be worse than the first movie, cause that's what I've heard and I actually found the first movie to be quite good and it would take a lot for a second movie to be as good, or even better than the first movie.I can watch horror movies with a crappy plot sometimes, as long as it makes me jump a little and has its scary moments, but seriously...
I thought Grave Encounters was one of the scariest and most original horror films produced recently.
Have seen Grave Encounters (2011) i found it rather good due the perfect acting still the end I found a bit easy.
So I wasn't fund to see part 2 but from the first minute I liked what I saw.You see people reviewing Grave Encounters on youtube and it looks believable.
First off, it's like a nine year old's vlog post for the first forty minutes of the film and I seriously thought I had somehow gotten on youtube and not Grave Encounters 2.
While the first movie was amusing and I did actually enjoy it, this sequel is an extremely bad and the fact that it lacked a true plot different from the first one, made it pretty boring and left you wondering "why did they even bother?".
Not having seen the first "Grave Encounters" movie, then I have no clue how true this sequel is to the original movie that apparently started it.
The value of their "review" is then also instantly reduced to zero.Liked the movie, despite its predicament or the slower moving tempo of the first half or the drops in acting -if any-.A third one could explain some of the still open gaps in the story/history but should be as good or even better than the last installment of it, regardless it's good, great, bad or magnificent.I look forward to the Gravee Encounter 3!.
But I gave it a shot, and even though it is not half as scary as the first, it really had its moments.Okej, so you might frown at the cheesy (and some times flat out terrible) acting, and the special effects could have been better, there are plot holes that sometimes leaves you thinking: "How did they manage to oversee that?".
Obsessed with the original movie, a film student and his friends find the sanitarium used for the first film and try to shoot a documentary there only to find the events that were portrayed may not have been faked.Overall this one was a massive disappointment without a whole lot to really like about it.
This film was a great follow up.There were plenty of scares and they went further into the madness that is Grave Encounters.
However, this turns out to be just that, a funny, realistic and above all entertaining little found footage movie that tackles its genre with gusto and aplomb.The first half of the film is all set up as the writers work really, really hard to convince us that this is all real.
Again, this could have been resolved so much better: New plot: the original movie maker wants a second movie, sends those mysterious emails to a naive critic to go to the haunted house and start filming, risking their safety for profitable footage.
Not great but still a good one to watch if you enjoy "found footage" films..
I saw this having seen the first movie but not the trailer and having now watched the trailer, I am thrilled I didn't see it ahead of time, because that really would have cut down on the surprises I got from the film.The vicious brothers did both films but its hard to believe despite a couple similar scares.
Only one part did I predict and that's the elevator scene (you'll see)..but one of the coolest things was that there was scare moments that reminded me of a lot of other scary movies yet all still being from the same type of evil which was rather fantastic.Overall comparison to 1st film: Better story, better acting, better scares, totally different and impressively improved Lance, and much more.8/10.
I just watched GE2 and I'm left feeling cheated out of a scare.I'm not a fan of the horror genre, but I suitably enjoyed the first for I found the acting and suspense surprisingly original.The story for me lacks direction, and although there are hints of a plot with twists that lay up ahead, it fails to come to fruition.
GRAVE ENCOUNTER was a good movie, I highly recommend it, this one however needed a little more editing of the script and development of the main character because the premise fell flat when it finally got underway.****Here there be BIG spoilers***** We never really got a sense of WHY the main character and cast decided they needed to go INTO the building.1.
It was almost as if they were HUNTING for some kind of way to tie the whole movie together for the ending but simply couldn't come up with anything credible.Finally, I'm not sure if the acting or the script was to blame for a poor performance but the cast of this movie was definitely not in the same calibre of the first movie.All in all, enjoy the first movie because it truly is very good, but this one, have fun with the atypical sequel where they throw in MORE of the SCARY stuff just to show that they can GO ONE BETTER but inevitably fail miserably because they lose the sense of a story.
But I think maybe he is proud of this film.I hope he never makes another one.Maybe it was a case of too many cooks spoil the brew, as I read that the Vicious Brothers were overseeing everything the director did and were on set each day.Either way, nothing in this movie makes sense, they rehash most of the scares from the last film by showing them on the main actors laptop, and there are some really stupid things that happen.
Grave Encounters II, starts of very different form the previous film, which in my opinion is a good idea.
Which is saying a lot because I am not a fan of "found footage." However everything that made the first film great went out the window with the second one.The characters in 1, were believable, liked and well acted.
Now I don't mind stupidity in a horror movie (it comes with the territory) but if this movie is about a kid trying to prove everything was real why would you do the exact same thing that got the first people killed.Moving on, another great thing about the first film was how it built up the tension from little ghost things to full out scares that made you want to pull up your covers.
Which is not something that fit with this film series.As another reviewer said I'd recommend this movie to Grave Encounter fans (who are going to watch it no matter who reviews it).
The first thirty minutes of the film introduces the characters as wannabe horror film make Alex Wright (Richard Harmon) goes from movie critic skeptic to believing the first film, "Grave Encounters" is real.
I just watched the 2 films back to back, and the conclusion is that the first one is definitely better.Grave Encounters 1 had a coherent story and stuck to one writers script.
Richard Harmon leads a group of his film student buddies on a project to locate the Grave Encounters site, looking to prove if what was seen in that was real or fictional.
The film student Alex thinks grave encounter is real and tries to find out the truth..
As someone who doesn't twitch at 'gory' deaths like the Saw movies, but is prone to jump scares, I expected an experience similar to the first Grave Encounters.
I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed "Grave Encounters." It wasn't the scariest horror movie I've seen but it is definitely one of the best "found footage" horror films I've seen.
If you watched the first grave encounters and hope to see a movie compare to it, your going to be disappointed.
It is a sequel to the 2011 horror film GRAVE ENCOUNTERS.