SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Michael Ledo The first thirty minutes of the film introduces the characters as wannabe horror film make Alex Wright (Richard Harmon) goes from movie critic skeptic to believing the first film, "Grave Encounters" is real. He locates the REAL asylum where the movie was filmed and goes there with his own crew to film people with unhinged mouths, tables moving, a girl being dragged across the floor...all the stuff we have seen before in found footage films. I am beginning to believe these things simply appear on cameras if you leave them out too long.You get tired of seeing Alex's face in the camera running his mouth. The beginning of the movie includes pixelated nudity and immature college pranks. There is a sweet "1408" twist in the middle of the film which makes it almost worth the view, at least that was the part I enjoyed as I didn't see it coming. The filming was done better, if that means anything. I suggest you jump to chapter 6 and start watching to prevent from getting bored. Seasoned horror film watchers might want to take a pass on this one. If you scare easy, go for it.Parental Guide: F-bomb, brief obscure video sex, no real nudity.

Scarecrow-88 Richard Harmon leads a group of his film student buddies on a project to locate the Grave Encounters site, looking to prove if what was seen in that was real or fictional. Researching it, the location of those involved in that "first film" cannot seem to be found, and Harmon even interviews Grave Encounters host Lance Preston's dementia-plagued mom to gain his whereabouts to no avail. Contacted by "Death Awaits" through his review YouTube channel, Harmon discovers the location of the site, and a brief visit to Hollywood to speak with the producer of Grave Encounters (a hidden camera recording the conversation) seems to indicate he's covering up the actual fates of those gone missing, with only the footage found. So the students head to the hospital, enter in despite warnings from a security guard not to do so (he follows them, hears a noise upstairs, goes to investigate, and winds up electro-shocked by an unseen presence in one of many ridiculous paranormal events of the film), with the hospital *enveloping* them. The students are lost in the hospital, as in the first found footage film, with the walls and rooms shifting and changing, sending them around in circles, as they encounter specters which give them chase, eventually encountering Lance Preston who has degenerated into a mouse-eating, filthy, unstable, babbling loon. Preston, however, introduces them to a red door that might be the key to them escaping. But "Death Awaits" has a request: to "finish the film" so that "more will come". Ludicrous sequence which has three of the students (one is thrown out a window, another has her body crushed then dragged away from the camera's eye) actually leaving the hospital, driving to their hotel, entering their room, getting their gear, and taking the elevator which opens to reveal the basement of the hospital they had just escaped! The liberties of the screenplay have a residual replay of the hospital's insane doctor and nurses from years prior lobotomizing a pregnant patient, taking her baby, and sacrificing it in a ritualistic ceremony complete with chalked pentagram above as Harmon and Leanna Lapp (his actress girlfriend) hide in a closet looking on in horror. Gosh, I just needed to see Sean Rogerson (Preston) eating another mouse. He gets to play all bonkers, including his crushing a kid's head open with a tool and choking him to death in a bathroom (just the way we all want to go, right?). Harmon is so cold and robotic, how Lapp's character could see anything in him is beyond me. A couple of fading white ghouls with black eyes and elongating mouths pursue the students. There are cameras levitating by invisible entities who shoot the activity of Lance Preston as he goes into ghost show mode for a wonky sequence. There's even a portal that opens in a wall and handwriting on a wall telling Preston to finish the film. Harmon, proving what a marvel of a boyfriend he is chooses his own welfare over his gal's. Some good special effects and, although silly as all get out, the plot developments are certainly different than the norm. I think the cute YouTube reviews of the Grave Encounters played at the beginning was a nice throwback to what Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) did for The Blair Witch Project.

theadventuresofimo Cliché counter:1. Women wearing tank tops where you scene of seeing down their top. 2. College kids who smoke weed, party, drink booze and talk about sex about how fantastic they are. 3. No one seems to go to class and also they are able to skip class for days and not stress about it. 4. Main character has unlimited money for transportation. 5. Over use of demon face effect (google it) 6. They witness the impossible and yet they will not take other peoples explanations or methods. 7. Predictable deaths (One scene, a kid advertises how he is going to die). 8. Pointless running off to get killed. 9. Cell phones don't work. 10. They have a Canadian accent, yet they live in the US. 11. Pointless expose scenes. 12. Filming for no reason. 13. Ghosts can do every thing, I mean EVERY thing! 14. When they are scared one guy will freak out and every one else is yelling. 15. Stupid shock scene using baby. 16. Characters will suddenly fill in the plot by claiming they read this some where, Yet they had never mention it prior to the event. 17. All characters are jerks. 18. Talking to the camera and leaving a verbal will. 19. Trying to hide from entities that are attacking them and yet some how are surprised that they got found 20. Between footage you get a split second shot of them in the mental institute. 21. They never contact the police, EVER. 22. Get lost easily, I am surprised how they make it out of their dorm alive (yes i know the reason how they get lost).

RevRonster I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed "Grave Encounters." It wasn't the scariest horror movie I've seen but it is definitely one of the best "found footage" horror films I've seen. The story was intriguing, the acting was good and the setting was creepy. I had some high hopes for the sequel… For the most part, I liked "Grave Encounters 2" but feel like it didn't live up to the potential it held. The acting is good but a lot of the characters lack depth or even have development whatsoever. The story starts great and builds off the first one well but ends up getting too ridiculous and silly at the end. The film adds in more ghost activity and scares but these sequences seem to follow a very specific formula and it makes the scary parts feel repetitive and tiresome. However, Sean Rogerson returns from the first one and he is really giving off a tremendous performance that begs the question of why he isn't a big star."Grave Encounters 2" isn't terrible but it wasn't as engaging to me as the first film. It works in places and doesn't work in others.