The premise of the first one: a television crew goes to the abandoned, fictitious "Collingwood" mental institution, to film things that go bump in the night. Spoiler: the crew ends up going bump in the night. Only it's more drawn out than that.
- There are some good scares
- I bet that would be a really scary thing to do
- Also a stupid thing to do
- But the kind of thing television crews like to do
- I bet this would have been good to see in the theater, but when you go back and watch the scary scenes frame by frame, the special effects are WEAK
- As mentioned before, I've seen Paranormal Activity about 100 times. One thing that movie has over this movie is more stationary footage - this movie has WAY TOO MUCH footage of people running while holding handheld cameras. We get it, it's about a television crew, slow down and let us see what's happening for the love of God.
- Otherwise, decent.
The premise of the second one: a film student doubts the reality of the first movie and takes his pals to "Collingwood" to check it out.
- Second verse, nowhere near as good as the first
- And the first wasn't the best thing I ever saw
- This one MENTIONS how stupid the special effects were in the first one, and then proceeds to have...WORSE special effects? That shouldn't be allowed.
- They're supposed to be 10 years apart. Which is ridiculous: they were released ONE year apart and have the same stupid technology, filmwise, in both of them.
Released: 2011 and 2012, respectively
Availability: DVD and streaming
Reason I watched: Netflix recommended
