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So the first one sucked pretty badly. I didn't even understand why they made another one. The trailer was interesting though and it did look quite different to that of the first. I was pretty skeptical about this. To my surprise I hear it's actually fairly good and kind of redeems the failure of the first one. Mike Flanagan also wrote and directed Oculus and Hush. The latter being quite excellent. Jeff Howard has also written with him on these works. So I decided to go ahead and check it out. Let us hope it's as good as I have heard.
Oh nice I love the addition of the old school Universal Studios logo! So that was loads better than the first one. It shares some similar ideas from the first one while creating a bunch of fresh additions to the lore. I thought it was actually pretty creepy. It didn't even seem like there were jump scenes and just actual scares. It's a somewhat slow build, but it works for this story. The last few scenes were pretty good and crazy. There is another scene at the end of the credits, but it really doesn't do much. It just connects both movies.
The acting was pretty good. I liked the characters a lot. I felt that the girl who played Doris was excellent. She really pulled off creepy and adorable when she needed to. It seems that casters are actually finding decent kids these days. Annalise Basso was great as Lina. She is loads better than the awful and painfully annoying Lin Shaye.
Overall this was a huge step up from the previous film. The scares are better. The acting is better. I really felt for the characters and the stuff they were going through. The characters weren't needlessly stupid. It has some fresh ideas mixed up within familiarity. You don't really need to see the first one to watch this either. In fact I implore you to skip that one and just see this one.
