- Director: McG
- Writers: Dan Lagana, Brad Morris
- Stars: Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Jenna Ortega
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 42 Minutes
Synopsis
Two years after the end of the previous film. Cole is a little taller now, but he still has nightmares about his experience. All that stuff happened, but there was no evidence afterwards (magic, maybe?), so no one believes him. His psychiatrist is also the school nurse.
There’s a new student, Phoebe, to his class. Melanie remembers that night, but she won’t talk about it. Phoebe’s very strange, and Cole likes her. Melanie, who looks a lot like Bee from the first film, but isn’t, invites Cole to go to the lake with her and her friends this weekend, but Cole won’t be able to get his parent’s permission.
They arrive, and it’s the most crowded beach ever. Cole spots Phoebe there, and Cole notices that he has no cell service. Their houseboat seems bigger on the inside than the outside. Melanie asks him about the Devil’s book, which he never mentioned to her before. Then she kills Boom-Boom with a knife to the neck.
Suddenly, the evil characters from the first film are all back. They have until dawn to finish the ritual or they have to go back to Hell for another two years. Cole and Phoebe ride away on a jet-ski, and he explains it all to her; she has no problem believing him.
Phoebe and Cole split up, and she finds a guy camping alone. The guy tries to grab her, but Cole interrupts. Sonya comes after them with a flamethrower, but she learns that a car is the deadlier weapon— and the surfboard is even worse. Allison comes after them with her gun, but she’s so stupid she shoots herself— again, just before she gets beheaded. Max is next, eaten by a boat.
Cole and Phoebe talk as they ride the boat away and start to bond. They make their way to the cabin where Phoebe was heading in the first place. After a bit of bathroom humor, they head down into the cellar. Melanie and John arrive outside while the two fathers drive to the lake. Phoebe explains to Cole how she accidentally killed her parents. They experience all the sexual euphemisms at once.
John gets impaled by a chandelier. Cole’s father drugs him to put him to sleep. Melanie captures Phoebe. Cole ditches his father and goes back for Phoebe. The original babysitter, Bee, returns. She was also Phoebe’s babysitter, and she’s the one who killed Phoebe’s parents.
The four demons return, and they take Cole’s blood, mix it with Boom-Boom’s blood. They villains each drink some and pass the cup around. And… nothing happens. They didn’t realize that Cole and Phoebe had sex in that cabin; he wasn’t a virgin anymore. They all explode or turn to dust, leaving only Cole, Phoebe, and Bee. It turns out Bee set up everything to save them; she’s more of a guardian angel now.
Bee then takes the cup and drinks the tainted blood. “I’m the last demon,” she explains. Hell opens up and takes her.
Commentary
This film was so boring in the first half that it kept shifting to the kids’ fathers getting high and playing games for humor.
Emily Alyn Lind looks almost exactly like Samara Weaving. I wonder how many people watching this didn’t realize it wasn’t even the same actress playing the role. She’s Melanie here, not Bee, so it’s not really the same character, but it is; we know it is. Weaving’s career took off, so they found a lookalike to replace her, sort of. Samara Weaving does show up in a couple of very short flashback sequences that probably didn’t take more than ten minutes to film and then one scene at the end.
This was nowhere near as good as the first film, but it does still have a few good moments.