A motley assortment of folks go inside a haunted house in search of a precious statue that's worth millions of dollars. Naturally, nefarious supernatural forces in the house start bumping them off left and right. While director Victor Garcia keeps the routine story moving along at a brisk pace, brings a glossy razzle-dazzle style to the hackneyed proceedings, and delivers plenty of in-your-face graphic gore, he alas crucially fails to generate much in the way of essential tension or creepy atmosphere (only a sequence involving sexy lesbian ghosts manages to provoke an eerie and unsettling vibe). Moreover, William Mason's by-the-numbers script follows a grindingly predictable path; it's pretty easy to figure out in advance who's going to either live or die. The often annoying rapid-fire editing and variable CGI effects don't help matters any. The cast do their best with the so-so material: Amanda Righetti as the troubled Ariel Wolfe, Cerina Vincent as backstabbing bitch Michelle, Tom Riley as nice guy Paul, Erik Palladino as greedy jerk Desmond, Steven Pacey as pushy professor Dr. Richard Hammer, Andrew Lee Potts as the sarcastic Kyle, and Gil Kolirin as tough ex-wrestler Norris. Genre favorite Jeffrey Combs does well as the evil and sadistic Dr. Vannacutt. An okay diversion.

I'm not sure as a whole if this one needed to be made or not,, think maybe they should have titled it differently since it really didn't follow it's predecessor. yeah there is some backstory,, and the Dr. is creepy, I just didn't buy into all of the Knights Templar stuff and the occult stuff going on,, not to say it didn't happen that way,, I just didn't buy into it,, the acting is not the greatest.. but the special effects were a home run,, always nice to have half naked,, women running around in a horror film, the film had some laughs,, lot's of blood guts and gore which was good , this film was slightly above average if you ignore it as a sequel and to try and just what it like pretending its got a different name,, that's how I enjoyed it better.

i haven't seen the prequel, so my review is without any knowledge about the franchise. its basically just another cliché horror movie. the story is predictable and most of the main cast gets killed of one after one. in my opinion is this movie unnecessary, because its using some overdone material. the acting is, in true cliché horror movie style, not that great. and the plot has its dumb points too. for example, does the main door, that keeps the characters trapped, open for a few minutes, and they didn't notice it, even when standing 10 meters away. but if you want to turn your brain of and just watch a dumb movie, or you want to laugh at a bad movie, i will recommend this one for you.

When it comes to horror movies I'm something of a completist, I like to know WHY what's going on is going on. Hence I like 'Jason Goes to Hell' because we finally have an explanation for the Friday the 13th movies, I like 'The Curse of Michael Myers' because it finally gives an explanation for the Halloween series, 'Freddy's Dead' because it explains Nightmare on Elm Street etc I like this film for the same reason, in the first I wondered why all this was happening, in this film we have an explanation. Amidst all the gore and lesbian sex we actually have a moral fable, the doctor, his assistants and patients were never actually evil, they were possessed by the statue and that's why the house retains the ghosts. It always puzzles me in films when someone comes back from the dead to wreak vengeance why their victim's don't do the same against them (although Jeffery Rush's ghost in the original does do that to an extent, helping the survivors escape perhaps before he is corrupted by the evil of the house?)Good points? Some gorgeous girls, some truly frightening shocks and gore, a nice ending, not twee or OTT but believable, making sense within the scenario and you're happy for the survivors. The house is still an awesome set and looks great. Bad points? Jeffery Combs aside some pretty terrible acting and the scene where they decide to Scooby-Doo style split up and search for clues is ridiculous. I don't understand why they felt it necessary to confirm that Eddie and Sara escaped at the end of the first film and then arbitrarily kill off Sara off-screen 8 years later and introduce her sister as the main protagonist. Why not just bring back Sara? I always think if people survive one film they should be allowed to survive them all. Are we to believe that the ghosts were able to restrain themselves whilst the police carried out their investigation or had their evil been sated by their victims at the time? It also seems to be that people can just walk into it, shouldn't the house at least be locked up? The line I always expected was for someone to say they didn't fear death but feared dying in the house and having their soul trapped and corrupted there. So frankly if you watched the first film you should definitely watch this one for completeness sake if nothing else