Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016) by Dal_Revieweddat — 30 Aug 2016

Really disappointing.

One thing I think ALL horrors should be, is punchy. A good pace and flow between scares and suspense. The Conjuring 2 managers to have very little fear factor, regardless of some excellent cast members, it just dragged. Being over 2 hours long really made this movie suffer, its 2 1/4 hrs long, and to me that's 45 minutes of drag, and drag it did. By the final seen, I was only shocked that I'd made it to the end, after 30 minutes of considering switching it off.

The story ties up the real-life-haunting's in the UK and US, with the same team from the 1st movie. It has a few jump scares early on, but by the time the "Crooked Man" reveals himself, I was laughing at it. It tries to re-create the unnatural movements of Sadako in the Ring series, which still haunts me, but instead it's like a pantomime villain walking through the house, and is really un-scary. Even my missus was laughing. It felt like the movie had a few concepts which failed to add up. Whilst the acting was fine, the script was often poor.

I maybe sounding harsh on this film, but the last 45 minutes was a true struggle to watch, just through sheer boredom. By the credits I could only conclude that the film was totally up-itself.

Believe me, they'll be a Conjuring 3... and this my friends is why Hollywood horrors are poor.