Arcade
Pictures
Directed by:
Ed Gass-Donnelly
Starring by:
Ashley Bell, Julia Garner, Spencer Treat Clark, Tarra Rigs
I don’t know about you guys…but in my opinion this film was
poor…
Yes, evil might win…who says it can’t? But in this film,
boy…it make me think twice before choosing the good side because the bad guys
get a big prize and left nothing for the deeds beside death. What about the
words that saying, win some and lose some?
After what happened in the first movie, survivor Nell
Margaret Sweetzer, the girl who’s being possessed tries to put her life back
together. They put her in the safe house call Deveraux Transition House who
gives her some medical and psychological treatment to help her started a new
life. Nell finds a job as a house keeper, mingle with her roommates at
Deveraux, and get crush on her coworker, Chris. In this film Nell’s character
was develops so much, I’m not refusing evolving character or developing story
from the first one, I think it’s cool that Nell succeed to transform herself as
a good person when she threw away her consciousness about evil that haunted
her, Abalam, but it really not that cool if it takes almost half of the film.
The scary scene was very text book like the radio that turns
on or turns off by itself when she clean the room at work, and the majority
trick to scares audience was cheap because it lies on soft music playing before
a loud bang with loud noises. I don’t why the scriptwriter put walk at the park
scene because there’s no relevant with any scene at the back. Maybe they want
to show how Nell gets along with her friend but they also want to put some
tense to start the horrified part, which turns out to be poor one because the
scene was not scary enough, especially with some goofy statue that come in a
sudden on her back and tell her that her condition was just temporary.
I’m little a bit confused about Nell’s father also. Is he
dead or not? On his first appearance on Nell’s room, I though the guy was dead,
I thought he was a ghost because he could come and disappeared as he pleased from
her room but when Gwen killed him at Frank’s room I was lost, whether he’s a
spirit or ordinary human that also survive from the horrified tragedy on the
first movie?
And the cult ordo of Cecille that try to get rid of the
demons inside Nell’s body? C’mon, do you believe that something like voodoos
could throw the devils away? Well, I don’t ! That’s why it was normal when the
three of them get slain inside the house by Nell that finally being possessed once
again by Abalam, the spiritual creature that love her much and get jealous when
she fall in love with Chris.
Despite the poor scenes at all over the plot, still there’s a
good scene which I enjoy on this film. It was when Nell comes outside the house
with a boot shoes that belong to her friends, get inside the car then drove it
to the highway which also burns all building that being passes by her vehicle
to fulfill the prophecy that said evil will burns everything at the end of the
world, and again it left us no choice than pick her side or live with
nothing…well some might say so…and the exorcism will not last after all…
