Review of The Conjuring (2013) by Karleigh O — 09 Dec 2018

Since â~The Conjuringâ(TM) is a ârealâ? Hollywood horror film based on possession of the human kind by demonic figures. There's a dog that ends up doing the usual thing dogs do in horror films (they act scared and bark constantly or end up dying unknowingly). There's a doll that ends up doing what dolls usually do in horror films (taunt the human body). There're some doors banging, some ghost hunters with motion detectors and UV lights, eerie TV static, and some creepy ghosts who appear out of the blue when you expect to least expect them, and to top it off they add creepy music and the spooky makeup that all ghosts wear, so you can identify them or recognize them. It inherits all the basic scary film scenes, yet it also has something deeper than simple scare the audience goal. â~The Conjuringâ(TM), produced by the famous Warner Brothers Studios, is a horror movie based on a true story. The fact that itâ(TM)s based on a true story already draws in the attention that it desires. Everyone in the world wants to know if thereâ(TM)s such thing as the afterlife and spirits and demons. The fact that the real world is embedded into the movie is what really brings the horror to the film.

First, and the most obvious is the film is based to some degree on ârealâ? events. It tells the horrific tale of the Perron family, who moved into a somewhat haunted farmhouse in Rhode Island in the early 1970â(TM)s. The Perronâ(TM)s got connected with well-known ghost hunters Ed and Lorrain Warren to help them rid their home of evil spirits (after which Ed began the long-lasting journey through hell to bring the story to the big screen years later.) In the end credits there are actual photos and the newspaper clippings of the Perron family that was haunted and Lorrain and Ron Warren, the ghost hunters in the movie. â~The Conjuringâ(TM) takes place in the 70â(TM)s so some of these qualities of the movie are even more realistic; like the period hairstyles, or the style of the roleplaying and standards by Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston to play the Perron parents. Also, the home the movie producers utilized in the film is an exact replica of the home that was actually haunted back in the 70â(TM)s. Itâ(TM)s old and creaky and in the middle of nowhere. Other claims of truthfulness, though, are way less enjoyable. Like the ugly witch Carolyn Perron, the mother, turns into or the ghost mother that stabbed her son back in the 50â(TM)s because she was possessed. Things like this led the audience to believe that the family was mentally ill and imagined all the figures in their head. In the movie all paranormal events were recorded with an old 1970â(TM)s camera by the paranormal investigators. The live footage of the exorcism or oldest daughter being thrown around by an invisible entity by her hair was yet to be shown as well. If this is truly a real story, then wouldnâ(TM)t they show more proof of these events rather than just a Hollywood based movie? I wouldâ(TM)ve liked to see more proof towards this story in the end credits but the movie in all did seem real and scared me very much.