Review of Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) by Mohamed A — 02 Aug 2012

Paranormal Activity 2 comes out and it has the daunting task of furthering the story, keeping the tone of the original and not pissing off the fans who loved the original so much. Did it succeed? Yes And not only did it succeed, it set the bar for horror films even higher than the original did.

Straight up, this is better than the original, it is scarier than the original and it furthers the story or the original. Paranormal Activity 2 is one of the most harrowing experiences in the theatre.

It slowly builds the story and then in the last 45 minutes of the film it assaults you with every imaginable trick it can to manipulate your emotions.Paranormal Activity 2 does everything right. It starts with the fact that this is a prequel.

This film follows Katie's sister and her new family. She has just had a new baby boy and they record his every move. Early in the film the house, a very large one, is ostensibly broken into, but nothing is taken, it's only vandalized.

This causes the family to get security cameras installed in every room in the house. This allows us to see everything that is happening. And right away two very effective tools are used in this film that were not there in the first.

One is that there is a beautiful German Shepherd who senses things that the family doesn't and you have little baby Hunter who supplies plenty of heart-stopping moments of his own.