(The character’s full name is Miguel Jose Jesus Gonzalez Smith, but he dropped the “Smith” from his business name, because, well, “Would you trust your yard work to a guy named Smith?”) But everything in A Haunted House 2 is bulldozed by the star’s preening, ever stranger freak-outs, stitched together with jump-cuts that are supposed to be evocative of the “found-footage” genre, but come off mostly as slapdash salvage jobs.īut to be fair, Wayans’s desire to push these in-your-face breakdowns into ever stranger territory occasionally yields the most twisted of chuckles. There are stabs at other types of humor here - including a couple of decent bits about racial sensitivity to stereotypes, mostly involving Wayans’s next-door neighbor, a Mexican gardener played by comic Gabriel Iglesias. A Haunted House 2 puts the satyriasis back in satire. But this new film is mostly an excuse for star Marlon Wayans to have extended freak-outs in response to the horrors visited upon him - shrieking, screaming, crying, cowering, and occasionally hate-fucking for minutes on end. (Keenen Ivory Wayans and his brothers were responsible for the first two Scary Movie films they have since left that franchise, which may explain why a new one was needed.) And there are some familiar digs at recent horror flicks: This time, the creepy doll and the closet from The Conjuring, the family-murdering demon from Sinister, and the dybbuk box from The Possession all make appearances. Directed by Michael Tiddes but largely the handiwork of star, producer, and co-writer Marlon Wayans, the film is being billed as yet another Wayans-ized spoof of the horror movie genre, à la the first Haunted House movie and the wildly successful Scary Movie series.
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