The Houses October Built 2

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The first movie? Great. This movie is incredibly obvious as nothing more than a showcase of 'halloween events' around the country until nearly the very end. Throughout the movie are more super obvious advertisements (looking at you, PBR) and the characters namedropping products. You can tell they really cashed out.

SPOILER , unfortunately they ruined what could have become a holiday tradition the movie did not project the seasonal atmosphere at all , they should have left out the four friends and taken the movie a completely new direction with coffen girl as the center of the story .I will say i didn't see the ending coming however that wasn't enough to save it .The movie was very poorly put together ,very unfortunate

This film takes you into to the darkest place in the extreme Haunt! It's one of those films you have to see. I don't want to give it away on any level.Bobby Roe Is fantastic to say the least. A must see!!!!!

If I could give this movie a negative rating I would! It's so bad...

I actually really enjoyed this one. The first one was fun, but never really scared me at all. For some reason this one made me super uncomfortable and on the edge the whole time, in a good way. There was one "haunt" that was just unnecessary and gross, but I enjoyed the footage from the rest. All in all I thought it was a pretty good movie.

I really dug "The houses October Built." I can get down with the ff conceit, and it was especially well done there. The whole idea was original, people going to haunted houses and looking for more extreme haunts and biting off more than they can chew.. But this movie pretty much undoes all the magic of the first.. Sorry but I don't think it's really any spoiler to say that every single cast member from the first is in the sequel, and while the given reason makes sense, and also it was kinda neat (for about 5 seconds) to watch the whole gang reunited, there was really no new ground tread here to warrant undoing the ending of the original to make this sequel.. Sure there were a few creepy parts but those mostly stem from the appearances of familiar faces from the first film. It just didn't have the same feeling or energy as the first.. Yet they were doing almost the same thing again.. Lastly I just felt that the big "twist" wasn't worth doing to the overall story line but I won't ruin it for those who do want to watch. I guess it was worth watching, I didn't absolutely hate it.. But I won't be re-watching, where adversely I have re-watched the first THOB a few times.. Sorry guys.. This cow's been milked dry, onto new ideas.

I thought the ending was a great plot twist. I really don't get all the negative reviews. It had me fooled. I never saw that coming.

But i could not agree more. It took me 3 days to watch this movie. I am pretty sure someone forgot to tell them to keep the people watching the movie, INTERESTED in watching the damn movie. At least blair witch 2 went off course when making their sequel. These morons basically put no creativity into the sequel they made what so ever. All they did was make a movie that won't, at least should not get a part 3

"Anything to get a scare, right?" It must have been a challenge to go about a sequel to a film in which the original cast all appeared to die, but to its credit, 'The Houses October Built 2' – from here on in, THOB2 - actually begins as the earlier instalment ended – with the group of haunted house 'enthusiasts' being buried alive. Pretty soon, the 'five thrill seekers' are free once more. Like the earlier production, this plays with the idea of found footage, in that it cheats with the concept by apparently including scenes that would have been impossible for the characters to film – but when it helps the flow and heightens the chaotic sense of the grotesque brutality to this extent, it is forgivable. Like the Blair Witch trilogy before it, THOB2 takes the events from the previous movie and treats them as reality; the YouTube exploits of Zack, Mikey, Bobbie and Jeff have made headline news – and made a star out of the sole female of the group Brandy (Brandy Schaefer). Problem is, this new fame pushes the others to go further into the world of haunted houses and realistic funfair demons than ever before – and Brandy, or 'Coffin Girl' who has attracted 24 million YouTube hits, assuredly wants no part of it. I don't like the way the boys cajole Brandy into the gang again, even considering the pressure they are under from their audience. Before, the group were extreme but likable; now, that appeal has been diminished, although their recklessness proves to be entirely in character. Also, it would be unrealistic if at least one of the gang wasn't reticent about coming for another journey. To help to understand why people enter into this kind of macabre exhibitionism, Brandy meets Dr Margee Kerr, who engages with scary things to help her 'grow'. It wouldn't convince me! Other than that, it is business 'as unusual', as they traverse haunted houses and extreme Halloween attractions much as before. Their travelogue becomes a world where every face is horrifying, around every corner is a new reason to shudder, and fairground horrors become their life. The 'bigger and better' scares (and use of a drone to film them) open things up in the way sequels often strive for, but in turn, events lose some of the grimy intimacy of the first film. The enigmatic Blue Skeleton organisation is still trailing the gang, for reasons that are never clearly stated, other than their notoriety. Throughout, the haunted house network encourages them to 'seek out Hellbent' (a phrase which is more profound than they imagine) as an example of the most extreme experience you can get. Inevitably, when they arrive there, things are not as they seem … I thought this was terrific. I'm not sure it topped the weirdness of the first, but Director Bobby Roe certainly tapped into the same vein. My favourite character from the first, the jerky, awful Doll Girl is here briefly and this time there are others like her. As sequels go, this is a good one. But I can't see – now that the main characters have been exposed in such a way – how there can be any more instalments.