Yep, starting with the second movie of a pair. Why? Simply because I haven't seen the first one. Grave Encounters 2 finds us watching the "videos" of a film student who has become obsessed with another film crew's expedition into an abandoned asylum (perfect, right?). He wants to take some of his friends into the same asylum and film their own version of the movie. In the movie there is controversy that the original Grave Encounters film may have been real so naturally his friends are a bit reluctant to venture to their own demise. (Oh yeah, everyone that filmed the first one is either dead or missing) But in typical horror movie fashion, the teenagers go into the scary place, and bad things happen in the scary place. They even find an insane guy in the building made for insane people, he turns out to be the lead guy from the original film crew. When they arrive at the building they set out camera equipment, and commence filming the movie. Strangely enough the "demons" in the asylum commenced with the scaring and atrocious noise making at the same time. You find throughout the movie that the asylum messes with your head, and changes its layout, making you think for example that you are going in circles, or that you've reached a way out only to find that it's boarded up. The scares in the movie were primarily jump-scares accompanied by a loud noise to make you freak out, but it was done successfully. The best part of Grave Encounters 2 would have to have been the "demons". There seemed to be a sort of obsession with them having large mouths (as you can see on the cover) but they were intriguing, and did a pretty great job of being grotesque. The film ends with the lead "investigator" killing his remaining friend to complete the film (he went insane at the end and decided that was the only way it could be completed). And it being released to the public with emphasis on the fact that it's fake, even though as a viewer you know that, in a movie sense, it wasn't. Overall? 3 out of 5 stars.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
"Grave Encounters 2" (2012) Horror
Yep, starting with the second movie of a pair. Why? Simply because I haven't seen the first one. Grave Encounters 2 finds us watching the "videos" of a film student who has become obsessed with another film crew's expedition into an abandoned asylum (perfect, right?). He wants to take some of his friends into the same asylum and film their own version of the movie. In the movie there is controversy that the original Grave Encounters film may have been real so naturally his friends are a bit reluctant to venture to their own demise. (Oh yeah, everyone that filmed the first one is either dead or missing) But in typical horror movie fashion, the teenagers go into the scary place, and bad things happen in the scary place. They even find an insane guy in the building made for insane people, he turns out to be the lead guy from the original film crew. When they arrive at the building they set out camera equipment, and commence filming the movie. Strangely enough the "demons" in the asylum commenced with the scaring and atrocious noise making at the same time. You find throughout the movie that the asylum messes with your head, and changes its layout, making you think for example that you are going in circles, or that you've reached a way out only to find that it's boarded up. The scares in the movie were primarily jump-scares accompanied by a loud noise to make you freak out, but it was done successfully. The best part of Grave Encounters 2 would have to have been the "demons". There seemed to be a sort of obsession with them having large mouths (as you can see on the cover) but they were intriguing, and did a pretty great job of being grotesque. The film ends with the lead "investigator" killing his remaining friend to complete the film (he went insane at the end and decided that was the only way it could be completed). And it being released to the public with emphasis on the fact that it's fake, even though as a viewer you know that, in a movie sense, it wasn't. Overall? 3 out of 5 stars.
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