It’s bigger, spookier, meaner, and ten times more horrifying than its predecessor, making me seriously regret not forcing someone to come with me for, um, moral support?
Those who enjoyed the first will find the second chapter perfectly serviceable and, to Wan’s credit, he’s capable of generating plenty of chills without resorting to gore.
...the climactic scenes set within the Further were a weak spot of the original, the complicated mechanics of this netherworld (and how it threads into our world) provide some of the sequel’s cleverest elaborations.
...en nypoleret måde, hvorpå en simpel historie om spøgeri kan kringles og snurres, så man sjældent ved hvad der kommer rundt om næste hjørne og hvordan det overhovedet skal gå for den plagede familie Lambert...