The Conjuring, directed by James Wan and starring Lili Taylor as Carolyn Perron and Ron Livingstone as Roger Perron, is a horror movie which was released in 2013. To cut a long story short, the movie tells about the Perron’s family, which includes parents Carolyn and Roger, and as much as five daughters; Andrea, Nancy, Christine, April and Cindy Perron. They all have been menaced by ghosts since they moved into an old, bit creaky, rural house. The house and it’s surroundings are, of course, the reason why the family’s life changes at short notice.
Albeit I think the movie was pretty boring and foreseeable due to millions of clichès it had, I enjoyed watching it. It’s probably because of, granted that I’ve seen many horror movies, this was the first one I watched without being frightened at all, which may also tell you how lame it must have been. Some of these of clichès were, for example, that exorcists Lorraine and Ed Warren found this case the worst they’ve ever known, the house, where the Perrons live, belonged to an witch, and the house had a cellar which was obstructed before children found it – and, of course, the cellar was the centre of the evilness. Actually, every single change in the storyline was easily deduced, which makes me think what was the director thinking when he made this movie?
Anyway, the filming was pretty good, and the actors and actresses did their job well, but this movie would’ve needed something more from them, too, to be impressive. I didn’t feel much sympathy for anyone, and I wasn’t even able to put my soul into the movie and it’s multi-phased story, but I really appreciate that this is not ruined with jumpscares. There was some scenes in the movie, which I couldn’t connect to the main story. As an illustration, the first scene in the whole movie is about Ed and Lorraine showing a film about one cursed item, and the same item is shown later few times.
Finally, the movie has an interesting storyline in it’s own way, but likely will be kick in the teeth if watcher is looking for a horror movie with heavy feel. This doesn’t seem to have any kind of tone at all. This could be good for extremely skittish person only.