Did it manage that? Director James Wan is back again with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga starring in The Conjuring 2, which is now out in theaters.
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A year later in the London suburb of Enfield, the Hodgson family – mom and four kids – are starting to experience problems with their council house that go beyond general shabbiness and a leak that is filling the basement with water.
In the meantime, Peggy Hodgson (Frances O’Connor) and her four children are experiencing unusual occurrences at their house in the London borough of Enfield. Soon the family starts to hear sounds and moving objects and other unusual activities around the house, all centered somehow around the 11-year old Janet.
The Conjuring 2 opts to cast the haunting as real, with most of the poltergeist activity centred around 11-year-old Janet Hodgson, who is stalked, flung around and possessed by the malevolent spirit of an elderly man.
The case gets widespread attention and it reaches the ears of Ed and Lorraine. In her psychic crime-scene investigation, Lorraine runs into a creepy demon, a.k.a. But presented the way it is in the film, there’s really no way the story could be, as “supernatural” doesn’t begin to do its extreme developments justice. In the screenplay’s greatest moment of clarity, Gregory speaks for them: “I don’t know what’s worse: the demons or the people who prey on our willingness to believe in them”. The spirit is a pawn for something more darker and sinister. Apparently, the mother of the Hodgson family, Peggy (Frances O’Connor), finds out that the presence is attached to her daughter, Janet Hodgson (Madison Wolfe).
Right from the start, the viewer is taken on a thrilling ride that plays on visuals and background score that keeps you on the edge.
The first “Conjuring” film was also about the haunting of a home, the Perrons in Rhode Island. Of course, the fear depends on person to person.
Like its predecessor, The Conjuring 2 is a bit of a bait-and-switch. It’s these moments that make the horror more awful. Add to it the fact that it shows a ghost that isn’t scared to show itself, in front of a lot of people, something which was genuinely surprising and pleasing.
Both Patrick and Vera Farmiga return as Ed and Lorraine Warren in the sequel. Young Madison Wolfe gives an wonderful performance as Janet Hodgson the 11 year-old girl who gets the brunt of the abuse from the spirit and begins to become possessed by it.
Well, the movie was scary in a way, but at the end of the day it was nothing ingenious.
I’m not sure why “Conjuring 2” even garnered an R rating, but I have a feeling it was more for marketing than anything else.
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It may not be as scary as the first film, but “The Conjuring 2” is still very satisfying. Well, here’s the rarest of things: a follow-up that’s actually better than the first movie. Yet the worst part of this movie is that it is really lacking in the frightening department. But definitely a decent watch. But don’t go with high expectations, thinking that it will surpass or equal The Conjuring or you will be disappointed.
