Haunted 2 : Apparitions

I’ll give this to Haunted part two, it’s got a better looking credit sequence than the previous one. A desaturated fly through an abandoned location, with radiation signs up and broken fences. Also nice is this one’s just an hour or 20 minutes. It starts much the same way though a talking heads describing going to a secret location in Essex for a paranormal investigation.They’re also investigating how much these Paranormal investigations shows are real.

The owner has brought Jon Paul Gates in his property to investigate his property which is rumored to be haunted. He’s also brought in an American paranormal investigator to handle the scientific side of it. It’s an old farm in disrepair, that was in use until the 40s… until it got the reputation for being haunted.

We’re getting a lot of the same ghost hunter stuff that we’ve seen before. Walk through this tent, Gates feels the presence of somebody who used to shave with his gun nearby. Back into a storage area what’s around here? The American wants to set up an EP later… We’ve also got another group of unsuspecting guests to come with us and chatter away about the experience. The owner confesses that while it’s kind of a haunted tourist stuff, but he’d really like to do is build usable structures here. He’s warned that it’s not like it when you do that. They don’t like their structures touched.

Interestingly enough, Gates isn’t sensing energy so much from that property, as he does from one of the audience. He asks that person to stick close to him tonight (except – NOTHING COMES OF IT!). In the meantime, the American investigator wants to do some tests, like setting up a chair and seeing if the spirit could knock it down. Actually, while he’s talking about that, owls in the barn. They run in, and do a test which seems to indicate that it was something paranormal. Suddenly, Gates freaks out… As if something attacked him.

When he recovers, it’s time for a makeshift Ouija board session. This reveals that the place is haunted by mail goes, and it’s not sure whether or not it wants to hurt them or not. It does feel threatened by them.

EVP session is next. It’s the same thing you’ve seen in every ghost hunter show, cleverly paste and design so you have to strain to hear things. They get a few responses, most notably a lot of growling.

The host journalist is skeptical, and quite disappointed with the evenings results, and his negativity is really pissing gates off. The host keeps referring to it as a show… Really sets gates off, but then again… The journalist has a dark energy about him that Gates can see and suspects this might be coloring his perceptions.

There’s some sharp words exchanged here in the last 12 minutes…But basically everybody is dared to come back the next day.

If I understand correctly, The next day is then represented by a quick one minute montage of everything going horribly, horribly wrong.

I do feel like we got a little more action and definitely a more engaging film this time around, but the real payoff is once again crammed into literally the final minute or two other film. I’m not sure what to think of this. I could understand getting away with this is in a one off, but there’s five of these things… Can they really all be the same thing?