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Paranormal Activity 2 Review

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4.4640 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We re-watched Paranormal Activity 2, and it still holds up. It takes everything that works from the first film and ever so slightly expands on it. It’s not perfect, but it is highly effective. It also happens to be one of the most profitable horror movies of all time. Listen to our review in this episode of Horror Movie Talk. Paranormal Activity 2 Poster https://youtu.be/07XbSk7Rjt4 Paranormal Activity 2 is directed by Tod Williams and can be found can be wherever you rent or buy your movies. Synopsis for Paranormal Activity 2 Paranormal Activity 2 takes place before and briefly after the occurrences of Paranormal Activity. However, this time, the movie focuses on Kristy Rey’s (Sprague Grayden) family of 4. Kristy is the sister of Katie from the first film. A year after Kristy gives birth to their son Hunter, strange occurrences, Activities even, start happening, and the Rey family eventually figures out that they are being tormented by a demon. Paranormal Activity 2 uses the same found footage techniques found in the first film, but expands the scope of the story beyond the recent hauntings and delves a little more into Kristy and Katies past. Katie and Kristi Review of Paranormal Activity 2 Paranormal Activity 2 expands the scope of the original film and uses aome very effective devices that take full advantage of the found footage genre. Whenever your marketing focuses almost exclusively on genuine audience reactions, you know you’re doing something right.The movie expands the “lore” of the Rey sisters in this movie, but never over extends like in the later films. The mystery, dread, and dramatic irony are all there in the movie, and it somehow is just as memorable as the first. You’ll walk away wondering how the filmmakers created more tension with a static shot of a pool vacuum than most of the tension contained in most horror movies. The subtle audio and visual cues are enough to carry you through to the end when they go full jumpscare and finally have some payoff. Hi honey, we're having spaghetti tonight. Score for Paranormal Activity Score 8/10 Paranormal Activity 2Add it to your collection or rent it todayBuy/Rent on Amazon Spoilers for Paranormal Activity 2 Click to Expand for Spoilers Chronology of Paranormal Activity and Paranormal Activity 2 If you've seen Paranormal Activity, you should know what to expect from the sequel. There aren't many surprises in the overarching plot. The family sets up a bunch of cameras and they are increasingly haunted by a demon presence. The differences are small between the two films, but this film does introduce some great gimmicks. To start out, we should establish the timeline of the two films. The events of the film start out a year before the events in Paranormal Activity 1. The opening sequence is a series of family videos right before and after their son Hunter is born. Check Out Our Review of Tusk https://www.horrormovietalk.com/2019/09/18/tusk-review/ The film then jumps forward to two months before PA1, and it shows a video of them documenting damage to their house for an insurance claim. This gives them a great excuse to set up security cameras around the house. The security cameras document the family tormented by a demon for several days and in the end, Kristi through a ritual, transfers the demon over to her sister Katie (from the first film. Check Out Our Review of Slender Man https://www.horrormovietalk.com/2018/08/13/slender-man/ The events of the first movie happen off screen and then Paranormal Activity 2 ends with Katie appearing in Kristi's house, now possessed by the demon, and kills everyone except Hunter. Elements that work in Paranormal Activity 2 "The sound" is one of the best things about the Paranormal Activity franchise. The low rumble that communicates the presence of a demon makes even plain shots of an empty room dreadful. https://youtu.

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By beats today at your local grocer.

0:30.4

Hello and welcome to Horror Movie Talk,

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an opinionated and accidentally funny horror movie review show.

0:39.3

Your slubby hosts each week are Bryce Hansen, the cool collected nihilist,

0:47.7

and David Day, a cool guy who's always cool. New theatrical releases always get priority, but we also review older horror movies, both good and horroble. I'm Bryce Hansen.

0:54.4

And I'm David Day.

0:55.5

Boy, you kind of broke into like a monster truck announcer kind of guy.

1:04.2

Yeah.

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What are we doing today?

1:07.6

Well, we are talking about paranormal activity two. Yay. Finally. Another, another entry into the

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paranormal activity franchise. Going way out of order. A smarter thing would have been to start

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at one. If you're watching the movies, it almost doesn't make a difference which one you watch.

1:29.9

Right.

1:30.0

You mean, you could logically start at three.

1:32.0

Right.

1:32.4

Yeah.

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Even this one is, no, I guess this one isn't chronologically the first.

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