The Invoking 2

I guess some people require Katheryn Hepburn and Clark Gable level acting and a script that will cause the viewer to re-think the meaning of life. Those people won't like this anthology. But if you like simple scary stories, then you will like this. I did.

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.

I wholeheartedly agree with everything the reviewer SomeoneSomewhere said about this film. There is no point to this movie. None whatsoever. Let me start off by saying the first Invoking film was complete crap. It didn't have a wide distribution and the few people that saw it hated it. In fact, people on the IMDb page for the Invoking hated the movie so badly that the last time I was on that page they were gleefully and desperately trying to make the movie have the lowest rating on IMDb. That says a lot because there is total crap out there.

As far as the Invoking 1 and it's sequel, Invoking 2, are concerned, both movies have much in common: terrible acting; annoying and underdeveloped characters; lame villains; utterly lacking in anything scary; the house on the movie cover for the Invoking 1 is nowhere in the movie, and the same goes for Invoking 2, which also features a house on the cover, which is nowhere in the movie; both movies have titles trying to cash in on more popular horror flicks: Invoking one was originally called Sader Ridge but changed to the Invoking to cash in on the Conjuring's title, and Invoking 2's subtitle, "Paranormal Events" was obviously created to cash in on Paranormal Activity's title; and, last but not least, both movies are completely and utterly pointless. I remember a Simpson's episode where Homer is put on a lie detector. The law enforcement agent asks him, "Homer, do you understand the questions I'm about to ask you?" Homer says, "Yes," and the lie detector explodes! That same type of thing would happen to me. If you attached a lie detector to me and asked, "I'll give you $1 million if you can tell me what the point of the Invoking 1 and 2 were about. Can you honestly tell me what the Invoking 1 and 2 were about?" I'd say, "Yes, I can tell you what they were about." and the lie detector would explode!

Seriously. There is no point to either the beginning Invoking movie nor the sequel. Neither of the movies brought anything new, interesting, or innovative to the horror film genre at all. Not once. Furthermore, in terms of story, they have nothing in common. You don't need to see the Invoking 1 in order to understand the Invoking 2. The stories aren't related at all. There aren't any actors in the sequel that were in the first movie; the sequel makes no mention of the story in the first movie; the stories were even set in a completely different location than the first movie; and I you wouldn't know the movies were supposed to be part of a series without the title.

Regarding this sequel, Invoking 2, it's an anthology with 6 unrelated stories. None of the stories are even 20 minutes long. In fact, 2 of them are less than five minutes long. Plus, none of the stories is fleshed out, nor do they feel like they were finished. There were a lot of inconclusive and ambiguous elements in the story that made the stories unsatisfying. I kept saying things like, "Okay, what happened to that guy? How come this woman doesn't have a back story?" The stories ended abruptly and I was left scratching my head and wondering what is the point of telling a story that has no conclusion. What's worse is that many of the stories were pretty predictable. I kept saying things like, "How much do you wanna bet that dude is gonna…? How much do you wanna bet that chick is gonna…?" and it always happened. It is no fun watching a horror movie that features underdeveloped and unlikable characters, zero scares, clichés, inconclusive story elements, and predictability at almost every turn.

Don't bother watching this. Even Scooby-Doo is scarier. There were a few shots of mutilated bodies. But all the kills in every one of the short films was off-screen. Plus, it sucks how this movie had attractive women I thought would get naked (some of them even disrobing) but the movie went the non-nude route with a lot of teasing but no payoff.

All in all, this anthology is 73 minutes long with boring shorts that have no relation to each other whatsoever. If you ever decide to watch this garbage, I'm 100% positive you'll be saying, "I could make a better movie than this even if I spent the entire shoot smoking weed out of a Drano bottle." IMDb please allow 0 star ratings.

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

I liked this movie. Sure, it lacked some gore, but as a person who has watched B-movies for a very long time, it really wasn't that bad. It kind of reminded me of The ABC'S of Death in a way. I think that is what it was going for by having several short films pieced together. Again, it wasn't as bloody as the ABC'S was, but it was interesting. It left you to use your imagination which is good. Most movies spell everything out for you and you need not even guess who the killer is. Granted, this movie isn't in my top 10. But it will be in my top 50. I find it a lot better than any of the teenagerish movies like I know what you did last summer, scream, urban legend, etc. I have watched B films that were made horrible on purpose, (traumaville studios comes to mind here as well as full moon productions), this seem that it was a B film simply because of the low budget. I think with a bigger budget, they could have afforded better special effects, better actors, etc. The acting was good, I only recognized 1 person from a previous film. The others were unknown to me. I think the director should go for an all out bloody slasher pic. I think he will find his hidden gem in an all out gorefest.