Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016) by Than_Q — 18 Jun 2016

Yes, the possessed girl story has been tried and tested many times before but this movie actually delivers quite excellently in telling it. Being someone who has seen both of The Conjuring films now, you can really just jump into this one without any prior knowledge to the franchise, and the little reference that it does make to the first film is almost insignificant, there really isn't any need for prior knowledge of the films. The film is a jumpscare-fest, yes, and it does so generously, however, it creates a hell of a lot of tension and atmosphere throughout the film and then doesn't even lead to a scare at times, which I can definitely appreciate.

However, the movie is extremely cliche in the common horror movie elements category, stupid character moments, levitating character moments, ghosts don't exist when it's daytime moments, yeah there are a few cliches here and there, and James Wan certainly knows how to deliver his cliches. I think that we all know that the 'based' part of 'based on a true story' is highly stressed upon because it's probably **** for the most part, so don't walk into the movie thinking "Oh my god! Based on a true story? Does that mean that ghosts and possessive spirits are real?! Oh god! I better become an intensive Catholic right now!", because it isn't real, and people should know that, but regardless of real or not, still a good movie.

The Conjuring 2 will scare you, and it's definitely a good horror movie, I would recommend it to first time horror movie viewers and people who saw the first movie, however, horror movie junkies might not see it as original or special in any way, but regardless as appeal to the horror movie junkies, I think that it's a good horror movie for anyone to take a look at, so yeah, consider watching it.