The power of Christ compels you. Oh, wait, wrong movie. |
It is another "based on a true story" investigation in which paranormal aficionados, Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), documenting the Amityville murders in which a demon or a presence of some sort taking over a person killing a mass family in 1974. During a seance, Lorraine has a vision of Ed being impaled and discovering a demonic nun figure as she becomes possessed. She becomes comforted as she breaks out of the seance as she is traumatized for a bit.
In London, 1977, the Hodgson family (Frances O'Connor as the mother) feels some supernatural occurrences within their home. Janet (Madison Wolfe), the youngest daughter, becomes possessed and is sleepwalking as two people takes over her body. When the media attempts to interview Janet, she talks like it is Bill Wilkins, the previous owner of the house. The media news and coverage reaches the Warrens and are requested to assist the local Church in this investigation. Lorraine reluctantly agrees to join Ed to go to England.
A demon is inside her. |
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga establish their characters with poise and professionalism that you believe them as more than just paranormal investigators but individuals that you care about because maybe their jobs are catching up to them. It becomes a very unusual romance between two married people and it is effective. I want to give a shoutout to Madison Wolfe as the girl who gets possessed. She is about on-par with the performance by Linda Blair from The Exorcist and she is chillingly provoking.
It is a tad overlong and overbearing as it almost reaches a two hour-and-a-half movie and there are a few cliched moments in which jump-scares persuades the audience to get too attached to the experience. It becomes a bit manipulative. But, Wan's presentation of how the paranormal investigation works seem to get a bit too familiar with the material, however, your spine will tingle during the movie because there are a few scenes that got me. It is rare to see lightning strike twice in a horror genre. Its slow dread and consistent pacing delivers with an urge to see another Conjuring movie because there's enough material for another one.
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