It's Norwegian... for, 'I can't hear Bughuul over your yelling, Mom'...
The film opens with a family being hung up like scarecrows in a corn field with sacks over their heads and burned alive. It is revealed to be the nightmare of nine-year-old Dylan Collins, who is staying in a rural farmhouse with his twin brother Zach, and their mother Courtney.
Dylan is visited nightly by a group of ghostly children, led by a boy named Milo, who force him to watch "home movies" of families being murdered in various savage ways; decapitated and eaten alive by alligators ("Fishing Trip"), electrocuted in a puddle of water on a kitchen floor ("Kitchen Remodel"), buried in snow on Christmas Day ("Christmas Morning") and strapped to chairs with their mouths forced open and having their teeth mutilated with drills ("Dentist Appointment"). Meanwhile, the Deputy from the movie, who investigated the Ellison Oswalt case, is independently researching the murders connected to Bughuul, and is burning down the homes where each murder took place before another family can move into them. He arrives at the farmhouse to destroy it, but is interrupted when he realizes Courtney and her sons are living there. He tells Courtney he is a private investigator, and she allows him to investigate an abandoned church on the property where a gruesome murder took place.
Courtney invites the Deputy to stay at the farmhouse, and the two develop a budding romance. Zach becomes jealous of the ghostly children who visit Dylan, and insists on having their attention. They show Dylan the video of the murders which took place in the church: a family was nailed to the floor and had rats burrow through their abdomens, causing them to bleed to death ("Sunday Service"). After Dylan refuses to watch another, the children turn their attention to Zach (their plan all along was to make Zach jealous so he is more susceptible to Bughuul).
The Deputy advises Courtney not to leave the farmhouse, knowing that each of the murders connected to Bughuul occurred only after the families had fled the homes where the previous murders had occurred. The Deputy meets with a professor who has come into possession of a radio that belonged to Professor Jonas from the previous film, who was in contact with Ellison Oswalt and has mysteriously disappeared. Courtney's abusive husband, Clint, arrives with custody warrants, and Courtney is coerced into leaving with Zach and Dylan. After finding the farmhouse empty, the Deputy drives to Clint's home to warn them about the danger, but Clint assaults him. The next day, Zach, as directed by Milo and the children, films his family from afar with a Super 8 camera. After realizing he and his family has been poisoned, Dylan contacts the Deputy for help.
That evening, Courtney, Dylan, and Clint are hung on scarecrow posts with sacks over their heads in the cornfield. Zach lights Clint on fire and films him as he burns to death. The Deputy arrives as Zach is about to light Courtney on fire and hits Zach with his car. He frees Courtney and Dylan and they flee. Zach pursues them through the cornfield with the camera and cuts the deputy's fingers off with his sickle. The Deputy finally manages to break the camera, thwarting Zach's home movie, which breaks the cycle. Zach is taken and killed by Bughuul while the ghost children admonish him for his failure to carry out the killings. The house then catches fire, and Courtney, Dylan, and the Deputy escape. Later at his hotel room, the latter hears children repeating parts of his and Dr. Stomberg's conversation about Bughuul's history from the ham radio until Bughuul appears and the scene cuts to black.
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August 21, 2015 |
| Running time | 97 Minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget |
$10 million |