Demonte Colony 2 Movie Review: Arulnithi’s sequel becomes a curse with convoluted screenplay and escape-room type conflicts

1.5/5

Demonte Colony 2 plot

After the fate of four friends who enter a haunted bungalow and retrieve a necklace go awry, the sequel follows the ill fates of Debbie (Priya Bhavani Shankar) and Raghunanthan (Arulnithi) crossing paths, as they have to face the cursed spirits of Demonte Colony. Only this time, things get messy, eerie, and more importantly blatantly louder.

Demonte Colony 2 review

The Demonte Colony film franchise revolves around a cursed necklace that is retrieved from a haunted bungalow and which finds its way to its home every time someone takes it out. The curse continues in the film’s sequel as well, only that it extends so farther that the film is immensely bogged down and earns the wrath of curse of the second part, literally extending to the second instalment in the horror thriller franchise.

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For those who haven’t watched the first part, it ends on a note that all the protagonists die, leaving you to ponder how would Arulnithi make a comeback. No guesses in saying it will be Sreenivasan’s identical twin brother. When the film takes the easiest route available to extend its world, its first curse begins, and there starts the rugged way to downfall.

A major bone to pick with Demonte Colony 2 is its inability to form an antagonist, or in this case an evil force against which Debbie and Raghunanthan have to fight to make sure they are at peace. For Debbie, it is her search for the soul of her dead fiancé who mysteriously dies by suicide. She is so head over heels in love with him that she is also ready to get pregnant with a dead man’s child through artificial insemination. But you hardly understand their love story enough to empathise with Debbie’s lengths of going to find her fiancé tormented soul. On the other hand, there is Raghunanthan who has to make sure his twin brother who is in a vegetative state remains safe, because that is the only way he can survive too. When Debbie and Raghunanthan join forces to fight off the evil, a series of convoluted, chaotic, and erratic screenplay makes Demonte Colony 2 a washed-out story.

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We are shown connections between the first part and the second, how certain characters’ actions determine the fate of others. But Ajay Gnanamuthu fails to capitalize on setting rules for a world in which anything can happen. At one point, Debbie gets stuck in a cubicle full of mirrors and her acquaintances are trapped within each of them. On the other hand, there are bats encircling her restaurant apart from a place where a sacred stone is buried. There is also a hellish place where tormented souls plead to be relieved of misery. The film takes convenient choices, and introduces characters and subplots at its will, that after a point, there is no need to keep track of the story. It merely becomes similar to escape room games where characters do not need a story to keep them going, but mere survival tactics to escape their current conflict.

Demonte Colony 2’s huge drawback is its background music, which keep becoming overtly jarring and, on the face, that robs you off the benefits of silences that horror films generally bestowed it. Jump scares become generic and a story that goes nowhere, only adds to the misery the film becomes. There are enough connections, or to say back and forth happening between the first and second part. But hardly does it get translated into actual connection.

Demonte Colony 2 verdict

Demonte Colony 2 wants to become a horror film franchise that wants to keep its central conflict the same. But to even understand the conflict, seems to be tiresome. The film does not give a leeway to make you get involved in its haunted world, keeps you at bay, and hardly has meaty portions that a horror film would demand. It only turns out to be a cursed sequel, which is louder in its presentation and lacks mettle to give you an adrenaline rush.

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The film ends with the lead for the third part, which hopefully would give answers to unresolved issues. But if the curse continues, there isn’t much it can do to salvage for the lack of interest the second part created.