Hong yi xiao nu hai 2 (2017)

Hong yi xiao nu hai 2: Directed by Wei-Hao Cheng. With Rainie Yang, Wei-Ning Hsu, Francesca Kao, Shao-Hua Lung. A mother goes in search of her missing teenage daughter after her sudden disappearance. She is told that her daughter was last seen in the company of a girl in red, leading the mother to attempt to unravel the mystery behind the girl.

“Trying to find her missing daughter, a woman joins a rescue team when sheu0026#39;s spotted being lead away by a mysterious figure in red heading into the local woods to find her and discovers a strange connection to a local legend involving the deadly figure forcing her to protect her daughter.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFor the most part, this was a decent enough if still highly flawed sequel. One of the most enjoyable aspects of the film is the localized build-up of the central storyline involving the mysterious girl ghost. With the stories they tell featuring the girl leading people away through hypnotism and other mind tricks, the need for the red cloak at all times and the general behavior she exhibits when capturing them allows for the spirit here to have a great central feeling and helps to build a wholly chilling central character in the process. As well, the ghostly action here is quite fun and manages to get some startling encounters. The opening encounter in the woods gets this off to a great start and a surprisingly shocking sequence at the home of a fellow mystic that may hold the keys to solving the mystery she faces has some great work here featuring the ghost emerging from odd places to attack and generates some tense moments. Thereu0026#39;s also the rather fun scenes of the demon child running loose in the woods which invokes some rather creepy imagery of the supernatural beings performing their unearthly tricks. Seeing them turn into the demonic creatures and begin chasing them through the alternate dimensions battling the spirits of the unborn children. These here are what manage to hold this one up overall. However, there are several problems with the film. The main issue at hand here is the wholly disjointed and chaotic storyline that makes little to no sense at all. The idea of exploring the legend of the ghost girl in red is to have an idea of the motivations and practice that goes into what theyu0026#39;re targeting and whou0026#39;s at risk, yet this one seems to ramble on more about the history of the localsu0026#39; interactions with her rather than give out any kind of concrete example of what the ghost is accomplishing or after. Likewise, the idea of dragging the survivor from the first film into this unrelated film serves no use when she doesnu0026#39;t do anything in a catatonic state for the majority of the film and doesnu0026#39;t even serve the function of filling in the backstory work that she did in that one which wouldu0026#39;ve been the perfect opportunity to have her there. The filmu0026#39;s other big problem is a wholly overlong running time that doesnu0026#39;t do this one any favors. There are so many beats in here that arenu0026#39;t necessary at all, from a confusing side story involving a local tracker that acts like a tiger crawling on all fours or a series of encounters she has with the mystic woman who has her own tragic backstory that ties into whatu0026#39;s going on. These segments are simply excessive and force the film to run on far longer than it really should giving us storyline points that arenu0026#39;t related to the film at all and causes the film to run through its ghosts scenes in truly perfunctory and expected manners to make up for the time lost to these situations. These are what really harm the film overall.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.”