The first movie is one of my all-time favorite Found Footage movies, so it goes without saying that Part 2 was one of my highest anticipated movies of this year. Unfortunately, despite being made by the same guy, with all the same actors, it’s like they totally forgot or didn’t understand what made the first one so good. Yes, I liked seeing the Halloween Haunt attractions in the first movie and getting to go inside of them and explore with the characters...but that doesn't mean I want an **ENTIRE** movie of **JUST** that. I'm being 100% serious when I was this movie is an hour and 30 minutes, and **OVER** an hour of that is nothing at all but these characters (the same ones from the first movie, having survived the events and being up for doing pretty much the exact same thing all over again) traveling and experiencing these new Haunts. **_OVER AN HOUR_**. The last 20-odd minutes is really the only portion of the movie that even attempts to try to be creepy and have creepy stuff happen to the characters, but even that it fails at. Where the first movie tried to be creepy in its subtlety and creepy imagery...this one throws all that out the window for some in-your-face action that isn't scary in the least. Also, even though these are the same characters from the first movie, and they were quite likable there, I couldn't stand them in this movie, all of them coming across as giant annoying pricks.

And that ending....jesus christ, I didn't think we could have an ending that was worse and more anti-climatic than the ending of the first, but they managed to do it. Not only that, but they went one further by having the ending make this **ENTIRE** movie 100% pointless. The only reason this movie even gets so much as 2/10 stars from me is because I liked that the characters kept acknowledging the first movie instead of ignoring it, it's acted well, and visually it's nice to look at. That's pretty much it though.

I can't believe this steaming pile of shit was made by the same people as the first. It's not even close to being in the same ball park.