Review - Paranormal Activity 2

After the success of the first movie (and the initial success of The Blair Witch Project), this movie had to be greenlit of course... and there's even a third one on the way already...

Part 2 tells the story of Kristi, Katie's sister... ya know, Katie from the first movie... and Part 2 is more like a prequel that parallel's the first movie's timeline but actually started before the events of the first movie started, hence Katie and Micah (who we all know, had died from the first movie) can make appearances...

This movie also explains a bit more of what was happening and why it was happening... basically, Kristi gave birth to a son and was now experiencing the same horror and trauma that befell Katie...

I like this movie and the horror/scare factor from the first movie was utilized well here... unfortunately, they took their time to set up the scary and it was kinda boring actually to wait... unless this was the first movie... then the build up is kinda nice... but since Paranormal Activity had set up the chill factor and most of us has seen it, the wait was not a good thing...

And they were following the first movie's formula to a T... the woman gets harassed by a supernatural thing and the man is the disbeliever... which was a bit annoying at that point...

Apparently, there were multiple versions of the ending of the first movie... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_Activity#Alternative_versions

The version I saw on DVD was the one with the 'They All Die' ending... but when it was shown in America, Katie had survived... when I saw this movie, in my mind, Katie had perished and the thing that showed up at Kristi's was the demon... hence the brutal murders in a not humanly possible way happened...

I wonder how they're gonna do Part 3...