The Conjuring-Movie Review

The Conjuring

RATING- 4 STAR

Director: James Wan

Cast: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston and Kyla Deaver

Take a picture perfect American family – a young father, a doting mother and their five young daughters. Put them in an old country house. Wait for it to get dark. And then let the madness begin. The Conjuring is a formulaic horror film but it employs almost every genre trick with great sense of terror. You might have seen scary movies in your lifetime. But you haven’t seen one this terrifying and action packed. Its artistic nature ends with its production design. But its true spirit lies in the fact that it will make you jump in your chair, not once but continuously through its two hour run-time.  

James Wan paces the film to perfection. It starts off with paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren explaining their case studies to an audience. It’s over there that you’re introduced to the movie’s first horror motif, a possessed doll named Annabelle. The action cuts to the Perron family moving into their new country home. And you know the place is sinister when the Border Collie refuses to enter the house. Only to be found dead in the morning. And if you ever played Hide and Seek with you siblings in a big house, be prepared to add some nightmarish experiences to those memories. The hide and seek game with claps in The Conjuring is hair-raising alright. One the best scene in film is when Carolyn Perron (the mother in the Perron household) is forced to play hide and seek in the cellar. Goose-flesh guaranteed.

The first half of the film sets the mood and tone. It’s slow and it creates the right sense of ambiance for the second half where things kick into supernatural overdrive. At all times you will feel a sense of dread exuding from the screen. And yet the thrills don’t feel cheap because the characters enduring the horror are so real. The Perrons are quite simply looking for a bigger and more comfortable home. But their bargain ends in a nightmare and feel hard for the young girls who’re subjected to the grudge of a witch and her haunted spirit posse. The Warrens on the other hand are the rationale of the story. They believe in the supernatural but only when science runs out of explanations. So when they come to the Perron household rescue you have added drama. Ed (Patrick Wilson) brings a strong sense of logic while his clairvoyant wife Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) brings the right amount of mysticism.

Put together you have enough human emotion to believe the horror in every haunting. After watching The Conjuring you might ask so what was new? The answer is ‘nothing’. But the fact is. Despite being an old-school formula-driven spook fest, this film scares the bejesus out of you. In an age when the horror genre is doling out so many lackluster movies, this superbly crafted James Wan film delivers the goods with gusto. Go watch and dig in to the arm rests. Wan might as well put a ‘money back guarantee’ on this one. 

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