The Invoking 2

Okay so I guess this is an anthology movie which the original one was not so why it carries the Part '2' moniker is I guess above my pay grade. This one at least has a few cheesy effects thrown in for the apparitions.

-1 Star for the scene in Story 1 where there should have been some nudity, there wasn't any

-1 Star for Story #2 being so lame

+1 Star for Story #3 having lots of gore and -1 Star for making no sense at all

-1 Stars for Having me think there was gonna be more and there wasn't!

Wow, it actually was worse than the original.

I liked this movie. Sure, it lacked some gore, but as a person who has watched B-movies for a very long time, it really wasn't that bad. It kind of reminded me of The ABC'S of Death in a way. I think that is what it was going for by having several short films pieced together. Again, it wasn't as bloody as the ABC'S was, but it was interesting. It left you to use your imagination which is good. Most movies spell everything out for you and you need not even guess who the killer is. Granted, this movie isn't in my top 10. But it will be in my top 50. I find it a lot better than any of the teenagerish movies like I know what you did last summer, scream, urban legend, etc. I have watched B films that were made horrible on purpose, (traumaville studios comes to mind here as well as full moon productions), this seem that it was a B film simply because of the low budget. I think with a bigger budget, they could have afforded better special effects, better actors, etc. The acting was good, I only recognized 1 person from a previous film. The others were unknown to me. I think the director should go for an all out bloody slasher pic. I think he will find his hidden gem in an all out gorefest.

So I wasn't impressed with The Invoking (2013) but didn't think it was as bad as the awful IMDB rating suggested. It was just a standard generic low budget horror film.

I was amazed to discover that it's become quite the franchise, in fact it's still going. Heading into part 2 I expected the worst and pretty much got it.

Oddly The Invoking immediatly shifts gear and instead of being a standard film is an anthology movie with several short stories. Why a franchise would change so dramatically I can't figure out but it certainly hasn't done it any favours.

The story lengths vary, ranging heavily. In fact the last one is probably around the 60 second mark!

None are very entertaining, they aren't connected and leave you confused as to quite what the point was. The cover just like the previous movie is dishonest, you will not find the yellow eyed entity here nor the house shown!

I like anthology movies, some have really surprised me in quality but The Invoking 2 is yet another failure. I hope the franchise turns itself around as thus far not only are the movies bad but they have no identity at all.

The Good:

Better than you'd imagine soundtrack

The Bad:

Weirdly built

Simply not very entertaining

Not becoming of a franchise

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

The fact that we get films like this but have no Trick r Treat 2 breaks my heart

The first film was quite bad, in all honesty. Now that we have the sequel, of which I was curious about, wondering how they could possibly continue the first film. "The Invoking 2" Took many wrong turns, turning into a very low, very weak, and even very pointless film.

First off, there's multiple stories. RLJ took yet another anthology turn, making it even more pointless, and now worn out than ever before. The films has around six stories, all of which were low. Each story revolves around a string events, those being paranormal activity in each one. All the stories seemed to each have constant clichés, clichés of which we've all seen billions, of trillions of times before. From the simple characters on each story, all the way to the stories themselves, they all managed to give every horror / paranormal sub-genre cliché in the book, annoying, boring, and even angering the audience. On topic with story, the unbelievably pointless factor that threw this entire film straight off track. This is supposedly the sequel to the first "Invoking" film - Don't be fooled. This film literally had nothing to do with the first film, once again, this was made up, and made into an anthology, making the title a complete set-off, as well as making it even more pointless than it already was to begin with. The film didn't have much charm, or entertaining factors at all. This entire film just seemed to be a long, dragging, and even confusing ride into complete, and utter pointlessness, succeeding in absolutely nothing. There was no tension, no resolved story, no story to even START with; once again just a bunch of clichéd, recycled stories plastered together, and called a false sequel. Aside from that, this film, either way still wasn't great, called a false sequel, or not. It just didn't cut it, not even a small fraction.

In conclusion, my curiosity got the better of me. This film had literally nothing but pointlessness going for it. No tension, legit scares, good, refreshing story. Nothing. All the stories seemed clichéd, and just added to the fact that this film was flat out boring, seemingly trying to be thrilling, but in face failed, leading to disappointment. Not to mention, as said before, these shorts seeming to just be pasted together, making no sense, and leading to confusion that tended to be annoying. Overall, this film wasn't good. I honestly wouldn't recommend this. Find another good film that'll manage to make actual sense!

I guess some people require Katheryn Hepburn and Clark Gable level acting and a script that will cause the viewer to re-think the meaning of life. Those people won't like this anthology. But if you like simple scary stories, then you will like this. I did.