The Invoking 2 doesn't have anything to do with the equally boring The Invoking (2013). That was about a house with some dark family secrets. This one takes the anthology format, does nothing at all with it, and adds some dull "paranormal events" and only in about an hour's time. It is the type of rubbish you'd find in a college film class without any art leanings. The acting is non-existent and so is the story-line. Cheap special effects don't help much either.

"U-Turn" - A man picks up a silent hitchhiker and finds another accident on the road.

"Insane" - A filmmaker with his guide in an abandoned asylum are haunted.

"Alone" - A druggie woman at home is bothered by the image of her double.

"Do Not Disturb" - A serial killer in a hotel room gets weird cards from a ghost.

"Natal" - A crazy woman at a cabin is driven nuts by the sound of scratching.

"Melissa" - A girl dials 911 to tell them about a masked man near her home.

You'd probably have more fun watching the old 1970's horror anthologies like The House That Dripped Blood (1971), Tales from the Crypt (1972), Asylum (1972), From Beyond the Grave (1974), The Vault of Horror (1973), and Trilogy of Terror (1975).

Okay so I guess this is an anthology movie which the original one was not so why it carries the Part '2' moniker is I guess above my pay grade. This one at least has a few cheesy effects thrown in for the apparitions.

-1 Star for the scene in Story 1 where there should have been some nudity, there wasn't any

-1 Star for Story #2 being so lame

+1 Star for Story #3 having lots of gore and -1 Star for making no sense at all

-1 Stars for Having me think there was gonna be more and there wasn't!

Wow, it actually was worse than the original.

So I wasn't impressed with The Invoking (2013) but didn't think it was as bad as the awful IMDB rating suggested. It was just a standard generic low budget horror film.

I was amazed to discover that it's become quite the franchise, in fact it's still going. Heading into part 2 I expected the worst and pretty much got it.

Oddly The Invoking immediatly shifts gear and instead of being a standard film is an anthology movie with several short stories. Why a franchise would change so dramatically I can't figure out but it certainly hasn't done it any favours.

The story lengths vary, ranging heavily. In fact the last one is probably around the 60 second mark!

None are very entertaining, they aren't connected and leave you confused as to quite what the point was. The cover just like the previous movie is dishonest, you will not find the yellow eyed entity here nor the house shown!

I like anthology movies, some have really surprised me in quality but The Invoking 2 is yet another failure. I hope the franchise turns itself around as thus far not only are the movies bad but they have no identity at all.

The Good:

Better than you'd imagine soundtrack

The Bad:

Weirdly built

Simply not very entertaining

Not becoming of a franchise

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

The fact that we get films like this but have no Trick r Treat 2 breaks my heart