Sequel to 2017’s reimagining of 1982’s enjoyable remake-lite of Phantasm. The surviving family members of the first outing are now trying to get on with their lives, living in the flats with the comfort of many neighbors. An opening tableaux involving dug-up corpses in an observatory gets things off to an unnerving start, more-so because it seems like the dead crawled there themselves and judging by the deterioration of the bodies, that just ain’t possible. After the brief foray into pure nightmare fuel, we jump ahead a few years and catch-up with our heroes. Older sister Rini is protective of her little brothers Toni and Bondi and papa is obviously mentally wrecked and distant. Youngest kid, Bondi, has been digging around in the empty lot next door and believes he’s found a gravesite full of unmarked graves… uh oh. There’s already something sinister going on in the massive apartment building and following the casualties of an intense elevator set piece, the building now has more than a few corpses on the premises awaiting a proper burial. A growing storm is tipping things to chaos but dangerous downpours are the least of the residents concerns when the supernatural comes a-calling. A reporter we saw in the opening scene is trying to make his way to the the flats because he believes something incredibly evil is about to go down and he ain’t wrong. The final stretch takes place during a blackout which allows the director to play with limited sources of light, sometimes successfully and sometimes not so successfully. It’s kind of spooky, a little too long and just a tad too into itself but it still succeeds more than it fails. Vanishing tenants, a secret floor, a briefcase full of severed fingers, the living dead and a connection to the family’s dead mama will all come into play before shit gets resolved… for the time being at least.
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