After receiving an unsettling voicemail, Jordan (Wiggins) returns home, looking for answers, only to find her estranged father and even more questions. A demonic force has attached itself to the town and no one is safe. The only one who seems to know anything is the small town’s Reverend.

It is repeteadly said that sequels are never better than the first film. But sometimes films surprise us and their second installments bring better and superior content than the original idea. For Along Came The Devil II (2019), the saying stays. The first film brought confussion to the viewer with what looked like a cut version of the film; missing scenes that adheres to the plot. Therefore, the writer decided have an introduction meant to answer several questions left stranded during the end of the first film. But, after doing so, it still leaves two questions unanswered: who asked for a sequel and why did they bother doing one.

From the start, we meet new characters in the longest dark house tour that make an introduction to Jordan (Laura Wiggins), to whom was left a voicemail that disturbs her and decides to go back home. There she meets with her estranged father and his new family as they wait for the return of Jordan’s sister and her aunt. Meanwhile, Reverend Michael (Bruce Davison) is hiding all evidence of the incidents that occurred during the first film. As soon as Jordan arrives home, nothing really happens, until somehow the same demon comes back looking for a new host.

The writer sure did try to best himself as he shows a wide variety of topics discussed during this second delivery. Among other subjects, the film includes family reunions, parental guidance, alcoholism, faith, religion, exorcisms, demons and necrophilia. It’s still a mystery the inclusion of the last one but it’s there.

Filled with sappy moments of characters talking about issues they had with each other in the past, Along Came The Devil II feels more like an after-school special for the converting Catholic than a supernatural demonic possession horror film. It takes 30 minutes for the character of Jordan to start investigating what happened to Ashley and her aunt. In the end, it doesn’t matter what she learns because the whole plot of being a junior detective is lost.

Along Came The Devil II suffers from the same mistakes it had during its first installment. The addition of scenes that are not in segment with the rest of the story is a waste since in other acts scenes are needed to understand how that result was reached. And a movie must be like a mathematical linear equation; it has its coefficients, the basic plot some might already know, and variables, elements that add intrigue to the story. In this case, the variables are present but are never solved.

In the last installment we met several characters who, if they were not enough to confuse the viewer, became forgettable but, in the writer’s opinion, worth mentioning. Now we have a minimum inclusion of new characters that are again one-dimensional, which do help the development of the story, considering that it is a basic plot, that mostly copies any narration related to Amityville, with no complexity in mystery nor suspense. For example, the father of the family has been sober for more than 15 years, but news of which he is not a believer makes him drink again and that unleashes a series of events that leads to the end of the film.

If you like loud noises timed badly with jump scares, a story that adds nothing to its first installment and the look of rubber knives, then Along Came The Devil II could be your cup of tea. Just like the characters, this film has no hope, no faith and no reason to exist. Even having no challenge at all to surpass the first installment, it fails to deliver any goods for its sequel.