LOUD NOISE! Did I scare you? Hmm, it’s a little harder to scare someone with loud noises when it’s in writing. Thankfully, Paranormal Activity 2 (PA2) is a film that utilizes actual audible noises to make you jump out of your seat. If you have bladder control problems, you might consider strapping on the Depends for this flick lest you pee on yourself.
Warning: Plot explained below. (I, personally, like to go in blind to horror flicks.)
PA2 is a sequel (obviously) horror film that gives you an idea about what it would be like to be haunted by a demon. It also illustrates how your ancestors can screw your life up, even after they’re dead. Poor Katie and Kristi, their grandmother didn’t give two poops about them because she apparently made a deal with a demon to give up their family’s first born male in exchange for wealth or power. Thanks, Gram-Gram! Love you, too, ya old bitch. This film acts as a prequel/sequel to the first film. The story centers on Katie’s sister, Kristi, as she and her family are haunted by some demonic spookiness.
PA2 is like Where’s Waldo? for horror fans: you spend all your time looking around the screen to see if you can catch the item that’s moving on it’s own. It’s the light fixture! No, wait, it’s the door! OHMYGOSHTHETV’SMOVING! It is a little freaky if you immerse yourself in what’s happening. PA2 did deliver on the startles and loud noises. It did not, however, deliver on the action. Since it’s a horror film, I guess I can sort of forgive it.
PA2 is a great sequel, though it’s just like the first one, which can be a good thing as well as a bad thing. It does give you a little more of the story to fit into your Paranormal Activity puzzle. I enjoyed it, but if you were bored by the first one, you will be bored by this one. The demon kept his dickheaded shenanigans to the same level of douchiness.
Time Until Paranormal Activity Starts: ~ 7 minutes
Baddies: LOUD NOISES!
Best Nonverbal Character: The contenders are a pool cleaner, a baby, and a dog. And the winner is: The Ladybug pool cleaner.
Best Explosion: This is a truly, truly rare occasion. You may never again see a movie that will have a best line, best kill, and best explosion wrapped into one. In the end of the film, Arnold is flying a fighter plane and the bad guy had fallen onto the missile and gets stuck on it. Arnold says, “You’re fired” and shoots the missile with the terrorist on it…Wait! Crap! I did it again! PA2 was so light on the action I started daydreaming about True Lies. There weren’t any explosions in PA2. BOO!
Action Rating: ½ Dog and Ladybug Pool Cleaner Demon Investigation Teams, out of 5.
Illustration by Alex Langley. Rocket Llama World Headquarters.
This is the Action Flick Chick, and you’ve just been kicked in the ass!
Related posts:
* Paranormal Activity (2009): Did You Hear That?
* Movie Chicks on Horror Flicks: Paranormal Activity (plus an even scarier nerd in the night)
* Action Heroine vs. Horror Heroine – What’s the Diff?
* Movies That Gave You Childhood Nightmares
* Coming Attraction: Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
I honestly don’t see the point in making this sequel… I mean, the first one was interesting just for the sheer novelty of it and it’s creepy nature could indeed entertain. But this is just is just more of the same with some updated tweaks, like trying to add a plot. If you’re watching things like Ghost Chasers maybe you enjoy squinting at tiny things in greyscale trying to make out what’s moving and you need some more to fill your conspiracy theroy-loving hunger for this stuff… but unless there’s an alternative source of creepy for your Halloween season though, I think that’s the only reason to see this film.
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I was wrong, I thought Katie was the demon the whole time, even when she was a kid, I thought SHE burned the house down when they were kids. And that she had been possessed her WHOLE life, given how slowly this demon works. I think it should run for Congress!
I am digging the story-line though, so, Katie is gonna raise Hunter to be her evil brood, kinda cool, and they could do a million places with this thing. A movie about the sister’s grandmother, their parents, Hunter as a teen. The list is endless!
It wasn’t scary as the first, but I disagree with you AFC, there was one KINDA explosion, in the kitchen. It’s a stretch, I know, but it was a good flick.
I like that I know I won’t be missing anything, as you’ve told me all I need to know. Thanks, AFC 😉