Director: Alper Mestçi
Year: 2016
Country: Turkey
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
After a strange accident at work, the life of the worker at the facility is haunted by a series of haunted encounters that are soon revealed to be started by a friend of his trying to use black magic to revive the love of his life, and he must find a way to stop it from spreading.
Review:
Overall, this was a decent enough sequel. One of the better elements of this one comes from the rather involved setup at play that brings several enjoyable factors together. The seemingly innocuous firing at the factory, which starts with the frustrated worker’s suicide and the vengeful wife’s curse, is a great setup to provide a cause and motive for what’s to come, as the incidents afflicting the family show this quite well. Including the tragedy involving the brother and his wife and child, while the site owner is forced into dealing with his issues involving jealousy and possession as a result of the curse, which generates a solid and workable enough setup to go along with.
As well, this one takes advantage of those features with some great haunting scenes. The flash images and hallucinations of the demons appearing to her and working through her medical condition appear to provide potential answers for everything, despite the genuine supernatural incidents here being quite fun/. The final half, where the contents of the curse come to light in several fine moments where the possession is finally allowed to take place in some genuinely chilling scenes with the deformed beings and graphic actions under their influence, is quite fun. A lengthy battle in the house where all the spell-casting took place causes some impressive visuals and imagery to go along with some great shocks, all giving some likable features to this one.
There are some issues with the film that hold it back. The biggest issue here is a highly overwrought pace filled with unnecessary plot points that make this far longer than it needs to be. Despite going for the obvious explanation and cause from the very beginning, way too much of this one is wrapped up with useless family drama, personal grudges coming to the forefront, and not much in the way of genuine thrills. Providing more of a drama feel here with the mothers going through their demands and pettiness, it’s rather easy to forget what’s going on, which is the other factor here in how confusing this is. Between flashbacks, dreams, and a lack of explanations, it’s way too late into this one to know what’s going on, and it holds this one back from what it could be.
Overview: ***.5/5
An overall fun enough if a slightly flawed entry in the franchise, there’s quite a lot to like here, managing to keep this one enjoyable over those issues is a nice touch. Those who appreciate this kind of genre effort or are fans of the previous entries in the series will have a lot to like here, while those who are turned off by the previous entries or the film's flaws should heed caution with this one.
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