The Gallows Act II

I'm not convinced anyone involved with this film really wanted to make it.

This is an unappetizing hash of "It Follows" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street," as well as countless post-"Candyman" fright flicks about curious kids conjuring bad mojo.

Emphatically unimaginative.

The movie's finale offers a twist that ostensibly ameliorates the internal-logic complaints. But it most vividly registers as a rancid misogynist cherry atop a sloppy concoction of tired jump scares.

The Gallows Act II is aggressively awful. The filmmaking quality barely meets direct-to-video standard, and despite a lead actress who really tries, the movie does not respect her character or any other character in the story.

You just cannot help but think that they thought it was a good idea at the time, started rolling and realised it was too late to rethink

Marginally better than its found-footage predecessor, which isn't saying much, this horror sequel still falls prey to the usual clichés, from cheap jump scares to not-very-smart characters.

The Gallows Act II is a total letdown as a sequel, and completely undoes everything that I enjoyed about the original film in the first place.

The Gallows Act II is as bad as you all (wrongly) think The Gallows is.

Despite a few (glaring) faults, The Gallows Act II still upstages the original, in every way. That still leaves a lot of room for disappointment, of course...