With its big success over the first movie, “A Haunted House,” Marlon Wayans and co-writer Rick Alvarez go back to the well and made a sequel, “A Haunted House 2.”  This movie is almost a carbon copy of the first movie with some hilarious new actors and the return of great characters from before.

The movie opens with Wayans, who plays Malcolm, and comedian Affion Crockett, who plays Ray-Ray, attempting to dispose of Kisha’s body, played by Essence Atkins, as continuation of the last film. The hidden star of this movie is Crockett, who overuses the word “homie” and finds many ways to make his gangster character seem not so intimidating.

Wayans moves into a brand new home, but this time with current girlfriend Megan, played by Jaime Pressly, who is oblivious about his past. She has two children, Becky, played by Ashley Rickards, and Wyatt, played by Steele Stebbins. Becky is the easy target in the movie because the character is portrayed as having a very active sex life and jokes are constantly being made about it in every other scene. Wyatt has a better role because he has a ghost as his imaginary friend named Tony, who is implied as being black.

One of the various films that “A Haunted House 2” parodies is the horror movie “Sinister.” In the comedic film, Malcolm finds a box of old film canisters in the attic and watches them to reveal that previous residents of the house were indeed targeted by a killer. The killer seems to always have the best ideas, but his execution was hilariously off target. For example, he tried to hang the family from a big tree in the back yard, but the rope breaks so he climbs up the tree to manually get the job done, but loses his footing and falls out of the tree.

Malcolm’s dogs, Shiloh Jr. and Shiloh III, get killed in unfortunate, but hilarious ways. Shiloh Jr. gets squished under a safe that was hanging in the air; to my surprise, it didn’t say ACME on the side of it.  Shiloh III was killed when he was inside the box and a skittish Malcolm beats the box up, stabs it with a sword, chainsaws it, and then shoots it with a shotgun multiple times before finding out his family was surprising him with a new dog.

One of the funniest scenes in the movie is the very graphic sex scene between Malcolm and a creepy looking doll, implied as the doll from the horror film “The Conjuring,” which goes on for about five minutes.

I laughed from beginning to end of this scene as Malcolm used every sex position he could think of and had inappropriate chatter with the doll the whole time. Malcolm is later horrified when he finds out that the doll has grown attached to him and is very stubborn when it comes to ending the relationship.

If you want to laugh, then this is the movie for you.

They make a lot of references to black culture and also to the movies they are parodying. So if you have knowledge of those topics, you will get more from the movie.

You have to understand that parody movies have a formula and if you stick with it, you can make many sequels and still be successfully funny.