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Like the endless SAW films before it, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY is becoming an annual Halloween tradition. The first was a clever low-budget surprise and the second is more like another Halloween tradition — the haunted house. You know the haunted house run by the local high school or amusement park. You walk slowly through dark corridors and periodically there is a scary face staring at you around a corner or someone jumps out and yells boo. There’s no story only the promise of scares.

This second outing is a prequel of sorts. The events of this film take place around the events of the first, but with new characters at the center. I make this clear because if you didn’t see the first film you wouldn’t know what the text on the screen “60 Days Before Micah’s Death” means. The new haunting victims are the sister of the first film’s Katie (Katie Featherston) and her family. Kristi (Sprague Grayden, TV’s SIX FEET UNDER) has just had a baby boy named Hunter (William Juan & Jackson Xenia Prieto). Soon after bringing home the newborn, strange occurrences begin, which increase as the baby gets older. Kristi’s step daughter Ali (Molly Ephraim, TV’s LAST MAN STANDING) believes  it’s a ghost, while her husband Daniel (Brian Boland, THE UNBORN) disregards all in supernatural explanations.

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