Archie Leach

Another wonderful example of a horror movie where reasonable people are thrown into wild circumstances and ask relevant questions and share important information with other characters. Makes the viewer empathize with them that much more. It's like modern horror filmmakers have internalized decades of people shouting at the stupid characters in these movies. Refreshing. Side note - Andy Richter's music instrument shop is busy enough to support 4 staff members per shift? In this economy??

Scarlett Johansson as magician groupie. A harsh critique on the lengths people go to succeed in show business - magic boxes, chisels, etc.

Some fun set pieces and adequate mayhem & gore, but it just didn’t have the electricity of the first one.

Horror movies are so much better when characters act like regular people, talk to each other, ask questions. It makes them much more relatable and you fear for them that much more. Adam Scott is such a dick in this.