Lol, wut?

Man, the first one was no award winner but it had its moments and was at least a passable horror flick but this... I mean, what? I got about halfway through this movie before I couldn't take it anymore.

The characters were all awful, just awful. The main character, Ariel? Her sister kills herself but after a half-hearted cry outside she's fine again. That she directly ignored her sister's clearly frantic pleas to contact her are largely ignored and the emotional impact that could have been explored is shoo'ed away with a single poorly delivered "I should have called her". She makes no effort to visit or comfort her mother, and within 24 hours is already playing super-sleuth in her sister's apartment. There was absolutely nothing sympathetic about this character in the least. I was also wondering why Sara, despite escaping the house with $7 - $8 million (split with Eddie I assume) was living in a *beep* apartment in a *beep* building.

There was absolutely no buildup in the house, they walk in, the lockdown device activates and suddenly Ariel is a believer. What confused me here is that they then go to the main control room, wander around, a few characters get eaten, then they're back in the lobby but... the front door shutter hasn't gone down yet? Why didn't they just leave in the first place? I realize they shot the mechanism for the shutters, but since the shutters had closed 15 minutes earlier, how would shooting the pulley system cause the shutters to open again?? If they were down, they'd have stayed down.

Ignoring that, Ariel escapes the house! Woo! Good for her! But... then she pulls out a gun and goes back in? They're ghosts, she believed they were ghosts, so what? Now that she had a gun she figured she was in a position to stop them? I don't get it. I admit, I might have dozed off a few times around this part because the scenes I saw were all so disjointed and pointless that I figure I must have missed a few. The lesbians, the guy getting pulled through the wall, all of it... it's like they forgot that there was supposed to be a story here and just decided to tack together a bunch of unrelated kill scenes.

From what I've been seeing on here, it doesn't get any better. The special effects were *beep* and the gore (the focal point of the movie from what I could figure out) was pathetic.

As a horror movie it isn't scary
as a gore fest it isn't gory
as a character piece it isn't convincing
as a sequel, adding onto the original's (completely adequete) fleshing out of the house, it's completely unnecessary

There wasn't, in my opinion, a single redeeeming factor of this schlock.