[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Describes everything that was wrong with the first film. They abandonned the building tension and dread in favour of jumpscares. Boring.

Yup. To be fair, in the book there was a "spooky house" bit, but they

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went there to kill the werewolf. They succeeded, and It couldn't take that form anymore, and the house lost its spookiness because It couldn't go there

It was more jumpy and actiony rather than being creepy, and would have worked fine in a Modern Horror Movie(tm) as it was.