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A Haunted House 2 | 0.5/5

SINGAPORE — To be honest, this makes other Wayans parodies — the Scary Movie series, Little Man and Dance Flick — seem like masterpieces.

SINGAPORE — To be honest, this makes other Wayans parodies — the Scary Movie series, Little Man and Dance Flick — seem like masterpieces.

A Haunted House 2 takes on recent horror films like The Conjuring, Sinister, Paranormal Activity and Mama, but with the only shocks being a very sexy Jaime Pressly leaping out of the closet wearing a Halloween mask and the usual cheap tricks (that’s right, she’s right behind you — where else would she be?), you’re left wondering why the movie doesn’t even try to think about of the box. You’d think after decades of American horror movies there’s more to frightening people than simply manipulating the volume.

Marlon Wayans’ annoyingly cheap theatrics pretty much sums up what’s wrong here and grimaces are aplenty as we’re forced to endure the image of Wayans stark naked and humping a creepy-looking doll, and sit through crude phallic jokes and inappropriate references to rape. In fact, A Haunted House 2 could possibly be classified as a borderline soft porn flick, wwhat with girls waving their massively enhanced chests on screen, posing “discreetly” as lab assistants in the background.

At least the penis jokes in White Chicks were funny.

(R21, 87 mins)

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