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The Haunted 2, also known as The Tag-Along 2, is the sequel to the successful Taiwanese horror movie released two years before this film. This movie revolves around the complicated relationship of a busy, nervous and severe single mother and social worker with her stubborn, proud and pregnant teenage daughter who mysteriously disappears in the mountains. Along with the father of the unborn child, a mother with a sinister past who overprotects her daughter and the young woman who survived the terrifying events in the first film, the desperate mother tries to save her daughter by confronting the vengeful ghost of a deceased little girl.

This movie is a decent sequel. It gives us some interesting background information about the vengeful spirit and also provides information what happened to the characters of the first movie. The new characters are fairly unique and viewers will care about their fates. The movie has a sinister vibe from start to finish. The locations consisting of abandoned amusement parks, creepy hospitals and foggy forests in the mountains are very efficient. The film has a few scary scenes but also convincingly ventures into the drama genre.

However, this film can't keep up with the very good predecessor. The film has a few lengths in the middle section. The special effects are more used than in the first movie which wasn't a great choice since they look cheaply made. The weirdest thing is however the teenage daughter's boyfriend who is at times the host of a mysterious god known as the Master Tiger. When possessed, this unusual characters is shown wandering, sniffing and roaring around like an animal. Those scenes may be connected to Taiwanese culture but they look unintentionally humorous or even ridiculous.

If you have watched and liked the predecessor, you may as well give this film a try. It's less intense at times and includes a few awkward ideas but it's still very atmospheric and highly entertaining. It's not a great but still a good horror movie that can be recommended to genre fans around the world.

I watched the first film yesterday and it didn't seem to have enough detail to get the full picture of what was going on. I think this one did a much better job than the first but it still has downsides. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the film and I will be on the lookout for the third film.

Oct 17

A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."The Haunted 2" (aka The Tag Along 2 - NR - 2017 - Taiwan)...Still had good creeps!

Sub-Genre: Paranormal/Ghost My Score: 6.0

Cast=4 Acting=7 Plot=6 Ending=6 Story=5 Scare=5 Jump=6 F/X=7 Creep=9 Twist=5

When a teenage daughter disappears, she is told that her daughter was last seen with the spirit of a girl in red. Peril ensues as she tries to unravel the mystery and save her daughter before it's too late.

"The five thunder spell will protect you from evil spirits." The what now? Well I still can't say much about the story...it was even more disjointed than the first. The creeps were still solid, though. It was starting to remind me of those fantasy style Kung-Fu movies...only there was no fighting. I can only recommend it as a follow up to the first...I had both on one DVD so it was easy.

If you've seen the first movie and still had some questions you wanted to be answered - well your prayers have been heard. This isn't half bad, the CGI towards the end is a bit cringe-worthy, but other than that, it can keep up with the previous movie. And not in a bad way. I might even go so far to say it is a bit better than the one before ... just a tiny bit though.

After all is being said and done, you will be the judge if this is good enough for your taste. But as mentioned above, I'd watch the first movie just to get a feeling if this is even something you want to watch.

The sequel isn't as good compared to the first movie, but it's a decent one. It's somewhat similar to the first movie with the main character love one disappeared and her trying to find her. But the sequel goes into deeper about the lore of the spirit and brings some new things. It also gives a backstory to the spirit, which is interesting and tragic. One new thing they add is how one of the new character have a benevolent spirit called "Tiger Lord." It's interesting how he uses it, but things get ridiculous near the climax of the movie. I felt the creepiness factor is a mixed bag with it. It has pretty good build-up with its tension, but it sometimes uses cheap jump scares. Also, some parts of the movie are pretty predictable when it gets near the climax of the movie. The climax itself is decent on what happened and does have some suspense to it.

i bought a ticket for this film because the marketing camping said this is something new.

However, it lacks strict construction on screen play that liner and logical. I saw both part one and part two but still does not get it that why the red dress girl comes to urban city for kid napping guys?

There is no driving force to do that. The sad thing to see the marketing attitude that rejecting negative reactions and complaints from audiences to this film.

As a filmmaker and distributor, they should accept any complaints from consumers.

1 out of 10.

With the word "awful" I can quickly describe this movie. A story full of inconsistencies, bad special effects and simple performances. The only redeemable thing is its creepy atmosphere and cinematography. Totally a waste of time!

The Tag Along 2 has upgraded in relativity to its predecessor. The first quarter of screenplays indeed exerted some spine chilling taste with all those effective jump scares.

It was bursting with suspense moments in the mid way and brilliantly ended up with emotional scene.

What i love most about the movie were Rainie's flawless acting, the pace and an added bonus as it tagged along with positive sum game closure.

One of the best horror movies of the year. Not even the popular the New Ouija and Annabelle Creation are half as creepy as this one!

Tag-Along 2 continues the story of the first movie: after events of the first movie world acknowledged that on the mountain there is the spirit of a child girl. This movie will follow how this spirit has been originated. Not big changes were made: the child will hunt down always people with remorse, but this time the focus is on women that had undesired pregnancies that became almost aborts. I don't know why, but it seems that writers are obsessed with aborts. I mean, they should have come up with something different this time, instead they basically recycled ideas.

Compared to the previous movies, that at least did not use so much the jump scare technique, this time the director decided to go full blast and he used way much more. I hate jump scares. There was a small improvement on CGI, but it is still very bad and 3D model movements are visibly fake.

Trying to find her missing daughter, a woman joins a rescue team when she's spotted being lead away by a mysterious figure in red heading into the local woods to find her and discovers a strange connection to a local legend involving the deadly figure forcing her to protect her daughter.

For the most part, this was a decent enough if still highly flawed sequel. One of the most enjoyable aspects of the film is the localized build-up of the central storyline involving the mysterious girl ghost. With the stories they tell featuring the girl leading people away through hypnotism and other mind tricks, the need for the red cloak at all times and the general behavior she exhibits when capturing them allows for the spirit here to have a great central feeling and helps to build a wholly chilling central character in the process. As well, the ghostly action here is quite fun and manages to get some startling encounters. The opening encounter in the woods gets this off to a great start and a surprisingly shocking sequence at the home of a fellow mystic that may hold the keys to solving the mystery she faces has some great work here featuring the ghost emerging from odd places to attack and generates some tense moments. There's also the rather fun scenes of the demon child running loose in the woods which invokes some rather creepy imagery of the supernatural beings performing their unearthly tricks. Seeing them turn into the demonic creatures and begin chasing them through the alternate dimensions battling the spirits of the unborn children. These here are what manage to hold this one up overall. However, there are several problems with the film. The main issue at hand here is the wholly disjointed and chaotic storyline that makes little to no sense at all. The idea of exploring the legend of the ghost girl in red is to have an idea of the motivations and practice that goes into what they're targeting and who's at risk, yet this one seems to ramble on more about the history of the locals' interactions with her rather than give out any kind of concrete example of what the ghost is accomplishing or after. Likewise, the idea of dragging the survivor from the first film into this unrelated film serves no use when she doesn't do anything in a catatonic state for the majority of the film and doesn't even serve the function of filling in the backstory work that she did in that one which would've been the perfect opportunity to have her there. The film's other big problem is a wholly overlong running time that doesn't do this one any favors. There are so many beats in here that aren't necessary at all, from a confusing side story involving a local tracker that acts like a tiger crawling on all fours or a series of encounters she has with the mystic woman who has her own tragic backstory that ties into what's going on. These segments are simply excessive and force the film to run on far longer than it really should giving us storyline points that aren't related to the film at all and causes the film to run through its ghosts scenes in truly perfunctory and expected manners to make up for the time lost to these situations. These are what really harm the film overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.