In 2015, on a budget of $100,000, The Gallows was made and
released to cinemas. It would go on to earn $45 million at the box office
worldwide. I would be more aghast at a film that fucking dreadful doing that
well, if it weren’t for the fact that the act of me going to see it in cinemas
meant ultimately contributing to that final figure. So, yeah, there’s
technically a reason why a sequel to that film came out this year, but that
still doesn’t make the decision any less baffling. And to the credit of the filmmakers,
they switched things up a bit for the follow-up. I still question what good
those changes end up doing, though.
