No, this isn't a review of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, as the game is already six months old and that just seems silly. Nor is it a review of the Tomb Raider movie reboot that came out like a year ago, although it's easy to see how the movie was inspired by the game, or vice versa. However that shit works. But it is an acknowledgment that I, a 46-year-old man, spent a day playing a video game, one that features a sexy heroine doing kick-ass stuff like raiding tombs, solving puzzles, and killing bad guys.

OK, I admit I didn't have high hopes for The Pact 2, given the first flick was one of the finest, self-contained horror movies I've seen in a long time. But I'm beginning to change my tune now that I've seen the trailer for Patrick Horvath's sequel. We don't apologize in The Basement, but we do admit we're wrong on rare occasions.

The Pact was a whole lot of awesome. I've said that time and time again. But we in The Basement aren't so sure about The Pact II. Mike S summed it up best, not every horror movie needs a sequel. This is true, as Black Dynamite likes to say. However, you add a hot chick to the mix, and people will watch. This is also true, as Black Dynamite likes to say. Word hit the Interwebs today that Grey's Anatomy star Camilla Luddington will spend her summer break from the medical melodrama as the lead in The Pact II, which starts shooting next month. She'll play June Abbott, a character plagued by nightmares about the Judas serial killer from the first movie. Californication star Patrick Fischler has also been cast as an FBI profiler and Scott Michael Foster will play June's cop boyfriend. No matter what we think of the concept, it is our duty to see this movie . . . so you don't have to. The Pact II is directed by Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath. S...