The Houses October Built 2
Traumatized friends revisit America’s extreme haunted attractions, only to find that the Blue Skeleton’s nightmare has followed them back onto the road.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Brutal
- tense
- dread-filled
- paranoid
- halloween night
- late-night horror marathon
What critics said
Critics largely found the sequel repetitive and short on scares, though a minority praised its larger scope, streamlined cinematography, and entertaining twists.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The film uses a pseudo-documentary found-footage approach to follow the friends on the road and capture haunted-attraction encounters.
The plot is built around visits to extreme haunted houses and the Blue Skeleton group’s escalation beyond ordinary attraction scares.
The friends return after the previous kidnapping, and renewed signs of the Blue Skeleton reactivate the same trauma-driven conflict.
The pseudo-documentary presentation places viewers inside haunted attractions, roadside encounters, and apparent recordings of escalating terror.
Films like The Houses October Built 2, and why
The Houses October Built
found-footage horror centered on a group of friends confronting escalating threats in haunted attractions
The Blair Witch Project
found-footage horror using amateur documentation, group dynamics, and increasingly uncertain reality
Hell House LLC
haunted-attraction horror with immersive scare environments and survival-driven tension
Haunt
Halloween-set horror built around extreme haunted-house imagery and stalking danger
Movie Details
- Director
- Bobby Roe
- Release Date
- 2017-09-22
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rating
- 4.9 / 10 (105)
Cast
- Brandy Schaefer
- Zack Andrews
- Mikey Roe
- Bobby Roe
- Jeff Larson
- Tamara Lynn Chambers
- Takeru Kobayashi
- Adam Heatherly
- Lucas Godfrey
- Landon Colby
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Philo
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Houses October Built 2 about?
- Traumatized friends revisit America’s extreme haunted attractions, only to find that the Blue Skeleton’s nightmare has followed them back onto the road.
- What is The Houses October Built 2 like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Houses October Built 2 as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is The Houses October Built 2 violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in The Houses October Built 2 as brutal.
- What did critics think of The Houses October Built 2?
- Critics largely found the sequel repetitive and short on scares, though a minority praised its larger scope, streamlined cinematography, and entertaining twists.
- Which films are like The Houses October Built 2?
- Films with a similar feel include The Houses October Built, The Blair Witch Project, Hell House LLC, and Haunt.
- How long is The Houses October Built 2?
- The Houses October Built 2 runs 99 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Houses October Built 2?
- In United States, The Houses October Built 2 streams on Philo.
