“The Houses October Built 2” (* out of four) was a horrendous sequel to the equally horrendous original showing five friends (Brandy Schaefer, Zack Andrews, Mikey Roe, and others) recovering from the trauma from the original who decide to face their fears and go on a cross-country trek of Halloween haunted houses but find that the Blue Skeleton may still be alive and still stalking them. Desperate anthology of horror-movie and found-footage cliches offers no scares or jolts, and most of the characters are annoying and unlikeable. Final scene leaves the door open for another sequel and that’s scarier than anything in the film. Did anyone really like the original that much?