I'm not even going to pretend this movie is good for the sake of a 'so bad it's great' rating. It's not good. It is watchable, though. This is a sequel to A Haunting at Silver Falls which is a TV movie from 2013. I did see that movie a number of years back, and I don't remember it well, but I remember enough about it that I know it was better than this movie is. Not a whole lot better, but enough so that I decided 'what the hell' and watched the sequel.
Laura Flannery has replaced Alix Elizabeth Glitter as Jordan, the teen who (spoilers if you haven't seen part 1) survived her aunt's murderous ghost-causing rampage in the last flick. Jordan is now in college and still dating Larry (who is still played by James Cavlo) while sharing a dorm with cool girl Zoe. The friends, which also include a sweet guy named Trevor who is smitten with Zoe, actually have some of the most entertaining bits in the movie as they banter among one another. But this isn't the story of how Jordan went to college. This is the story about how her aunt comes back as a ghost for revenge and somehow the twins are back as well, even though that part is not well explained.
Also not well explained: who gave Larry's psychiatrist mom Dr. Parrish enough funding to turn the old high school into an institute to house mentally unstable psychics with the help of only one overworked psychiatric nurse and one barely competent security guard? Why does it look like the sign for her institute is written on a chalk board? Who on God's green Earth allowed her to house a criminally insane psychic in that institute, and why did she think this was a good idea? Who was taking care of her patients while she was on the run hiding from a ghost and a lunatic for a couple days? Why did the sheriff's office only seem to have one short strand of caution tape from Party City? Why did the sheriff, who up 'til the final minutes of the movie display the only common sense in this entire thing, decide at the last minute to let a bunch of witnesses leave his crime scene with such a goofy line?
Those are just a few things that were not explained and I remain curious about. Also, the lunatic is really the only consistently scary part of the movie.
