Knock Knock 2 (2011)

Pretty Good

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.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This horror film was originally called 1666 but decided to make it a sequel to a film that was just awful and had absolutely nothing to do with it. If you can get over this part, now you have to deal with the movie itself.A group of friends do the haunted Hollywood tour at night and get trapped in one of the houses. That's the plot. For one hour they drive around to the famous tragedy locations like Black Dahila and George Reeves place. Nothing happens. They read the blurbs about the place, laugh a little and then on to the next one. Then the last house is empty so they go inside and then can't get out because its boarded shut. Then they sit there and annoy the hell out of us. I haven't rated one this bad in awhile and I've seen a few crappy movies.

Getting together one evening, a group of friends on a tour of famous Hollywood murder scenes stumbles upon a mysterious house on their trip and find it to be filled with far more dangerous entities then they ever expected.This here was one of the worst genre examples in this class and really has very little redeeming value. Most of this is based on the fact that there's just nothing happening in this one. The idea behind the film is quite cool and unique, but the fact that there's just endless, endless scenes of the group wandering around the house with the first-person perspective, based on the fact that this is a found-footage film, means that what little there is to actually be entertained by is so hard to make-out and realize what it is that it just becomes all the more confusing and disorienting about what's happening, rendering the effect completely moot and disastrous. Even still, the fact that nothing happens here is the biggest obstacle that really can't redeem the film because it can't offer up any real scares or potentially chilling moments based on the fact that the whole film is centered around the fact that it can't offer up any scares or thrills to overcome the limitations of the genre which results in keeping the camera pointed away from whatever is supposed to terrify us only to turn back and see nothing, shaking camera shots that are so blurry you can't tell what's going on, countless times where the safety of their well-being is forsaken for getting the camera to record it all and just so much blandness about what's going on with them that this becomes a chore to sit through and a boring effort once it gets going. The one thing that does work somewhat well here is the fact that the central premise for their trip is quite ingenious and really should be used in other efforts since there's some potential for some really chilling moments in a story like this should it get in a film that really deserves it, but by doing nothing with it as it is really just underscores how futile and wasted this one is.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and pictures of female nudity.

I tried watching Knock Knock before the sequel, I turned it off in under 10 minutes and I have a high tolerance to trash movies. So next I tried this one, firstly it managed to pass the previous 10 minute cut off. The actors are unknown and not majorly bad actors. I managed to make it through the entire film, mainly due to curiosity and the 'Hollywood Murder House' guide. It was quite obvious what was going to happen, there were no shocks or real scares. A hint to there being a 'presence' once they get trapped in the house, a baby crying, a (not overly noticeable) figure in the background in one scene and some footsteps - the last scene being Aiden saying 'Oh my god, it's you' leads you to think that it must be someone he knows as how would he know what the 1930's former Residents look like?? But you aren't going to ponder much more on it. After the credits there is a eulogy to each character so they really want you to buy into this piece found footage, but it doesn't work. I do not think that it deserves the 2.7 rating it has I have seen a lot worse than this, but if you watch it it's not a film that will stay in your memory and you will find youself a little bored at times.

Nice try, Lionsgate, but I question the 'genius' move of renaming this movie Knock Knock 2 for a myriad of reasons. It obviously has nothing at all to do with the first one, it's in a completely different sub-genre (the first was a slasher while this is a found footage film) Plus I strongly doubt anyone of the 15 people who had the supreme misfortune of seeing the first Knock Knock would ever want second helpings of that cinematic cesspool anyway.But I digress, this movie regardless of the title is utterly awful. Imagine "Paranormal Activity" made with a lot less money, few fewer scares (knock knock 2 has none whatsoever), worse actors, and a woefully unengaging storyline. Now this film is 5 times worse than whatever you've just thought of. A complete mess beginning to end and a sure sign that I've run out of viable options to rent from Redbox.My Grade: F