shawnblackman This horror film was originally called 1666 but decided to make it a sequel to a film that was just awful and had absolutely nothing to do with it. If you can get over this part, now you have to deal with the movie itself.A group of friends do the haunted Hollywood tour at night and get trapped in one of the houses. That's the plot. For one hour they drive around to the famous tragedy locations like Black Dahila and George Reeves place. Nothing happens. They read the blurbs about the place, laugh a little and then on to the next one. Then the last house is empty so they go inside and then can't get out because its boarded shut. Then they sit there and annoy the hell out of us. I haven't rated one this bad in awhile and I've seen a few crappy movies.

GL84 Getting together one evening, a group of friends on a tour of famous Hollywood murder scenes stumbles upon a mysterious house on their trip and find it to be filled with far more dangerous entities then they ever expected.This here was one of the worst genre examples in this class and really has very little redeeming value. Most of this is based on the fact that there's just nothing happening in this one. The idea behind the film is quite cool and unique, but the fact that there's just endless, endless scenes of the group wandering around the house with the first-person perspective, based on the fact that this is a found-footage film, means that what little there is to actually be entertained by is so hard to make-out and realize what it is that it just becomes all the more confusing and disorienting about what's happening, rendering the effect completely moot and disastrous. Even still, the fact that nothing happens here is the biggest obstacle that really can't redeem the film because it can't offer up any real scares or potentially chilling moments based on the fact that the whole film is centered around the fact that it can't offer up any scares or thrills to overcome the limitations of the genre which results in keeping the camera pointed away from whatever is supposed to terrify us only to turn back and see nothing, shaking camera shots that are so blurry you can't tell what's going on, countless times where the safety of their well-being is forsaken for getting the camera to record it all and just so much blandness about what's going on with them that this becomes a chore to sit through and a boring effort once it gets going. The one thing that does work somewhat well here is the fact that the central premise for their trip is quite ingenious and really should be used in other efforts since there's some potential for some really chilling moments in a story like this should it get in a film that really deserves it, but by doing nothing with it as it is really just underscores how futile and wasted this one is.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and pictures of female nudity.

movieman_kev Nice try, Lionsgate, but I question the 'genius' move of renaming this movie Knock Knock 2 for a myriad of reasons. It obviously has nothing at all to do with the first one, it's in a completely different sub-genre (the first was a slasher while this is a found footage film) Plus I strongly doubt anyone of the 15 people who had the supreme misfortune of seeing the first Knock Knock would ever want second helpings of that cinematic cesspool anyway.But I digress, this movie regardless of the title is utterly awful. Imagine "Paranormal Activity" made with a lot less money, few fewer scares (knock knock 2 has none whatsoever), worse actors, and a woefully unengaging storyline. Now this film is 5 times worse than whatever you've just thought of. A complete mess beginning to end and a sure sign that I've run out of viable options to rent from Redbox.My Grade: F

elswick1979 I saw this movie listed under new releases today(08/06/2012) on the PS3 network along with 5-6 other new horror films. I watched the trailers for all of them and found "Knock Knock 2" to be the best of the bunch. The trailer had a nice creepy feeling to it, classic voice-over to sell the movie, and it was from Lion's Gate films. So I rented it and start to watch and found myself right away enjoying the chemistry between Jordan and Aiden. I also enjoyed Beckett and Steph but I found myself vested in Jordan & Aiden's story. This movie could have been good but it was flat out boring. After our crew head out to visit various Hollywood murder sights the film hits a brickwall. We spend roughly the next 45 minutes riding around in a car and looking at houses. The snooze factor kicks in when they begin repeating wiki info on each house that we had already heard at the start of the film. When we finally reach the '1666' house, we get a lil sliver of hope. In a nice bit of gender role reversal the ladies want to go in but the guys don't. Once inside the house we return to the snail's pace of the first hour(of one hour and twenty-four minutes). Our characters freak out, try to escape the house, fight amongst themselves, one disappears, and repeat the formula. The simple truth is I kept watching the 'murder tour' part of the film because the trailer sold me on the characters being trapped in the house. Only it turns out the two minute trailer showed 10% of their time in the house. Breakdown: Acting: 6/10 Direction: 2/10 Story: 0/10 Scares: -1/10