The original film was bonkers but not wholly successful; this sequel works well as a companion piece, but it offers little that is new and feels almost like a subdued 1970s mystery/thriller throwback. A town-dwelling couple and their young son move to the gatehouse of the original film's manor house following a traumatising burglary-gone-wrong, the son discovers the doll half-buried in the woods and...you can pretty much guess the rest. Katie Holmes plays it admirably straight as the put-upon mother, Owain Yeoman is earnest if a little underwritten as the father, and young Christopher Convery carries off the creepy-child trope well through conveying the child's trauma and beyond. Overall, the film is adequate but inessential, and the ending hints at a different if equally-limiting direction for the franchise if it is pursued (think Friday The 13th Part V).
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