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And as with 2011’s Insidious, director James Wan proves frugal with its sequel, again visiting an alternate dimension of ghosts and malevolent spirits that happens to exist on the same sets used for the rest of the film,(
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Yet for all his aspirations to become the poor man’s Alfred Hitchcock, Castle never had the filmmaking chops of Wan, who’s quietly evolved into one of the most skilled technicians now working.(
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