Movie Review: The Conjuring

Movie Review: The Conjuring (2013)

“There is something horrible happening in the house.”

Plot:

An American Supernatural horror set to blow minds! Conjuring is based on true events which have happened with paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Movie starts with horror of a possessed doll ‘Annabelle’ followed by a lecture of the Warrens discussing about paranormal entities.

The Perron family has just shifted to a farmhouse in Rhode Island with their five daughters and a dog. As they try to to settle in and get used to the big house, certain unusual and disturbing things tend to happen. Carolyn (the wife) wakes up with a mysterious bruise and finds Sadie lying dead outside the house. Various instances of paranormal disturbance also occur. The activity culminates one night while Roger is away in Florida. After hearing various clapping and giggling noises, and seeing the picture frames shattered on the stairs, Carolyn is locked up in the cellar. Later Cindy, one of the daughters, is awakened after sleepwalking into her sister Andrea's room—she sees a spirit on top of a wardrobe in the room that attacks Andrea.

While researching the history of the house, Ed and Lorraine discover that the house once belonged to an accused witch, Bathsheba, who tried to sacrifice her children to the devil and killed herself in 1863 after cursing all who would take her land. The property was once 200+ acres but has since been divided up into smaller parcels. They find reports of numerous murders and suicides in houses that have since been built upon parcels that were once part of the property.

Ed and Lorraine return to the house to gather evidence to receive authorization for the exorcism. Cindy again sleepwalks into Andrea's room and reveals a secret passage behind the wardrobe. Lorraine enters the passage and falls through the floorboards into the cellar, where she sees the spirit of a woman whom Bathsheba had long ago possessed and used to kill her child. Another of the Perron children, Nancy, is violently dragged by her hair along the floor by an unseen force.

Lorraine is threatened by the spirit to leave this investigation by an attack on her daughter in their house with a possessed doll Annabelle.

Perron family decides to take shelter in a hotel. At night Carolyn takes her two daughters back to the house. Meanwhile Lorraine discovers that Bathsheba’s strategy to attack was to possess the body of mother to kill the child hence every event that is hurting the Perrons is due to Carolyn who’s possessed. Right after it’s dawned on her they all rush to the house to save the girls.

After subduing Carolyn, Ed decides to perform the exorcism himself, though Carolyn escapes and attempts to kill April. Lorraine is able to temporarily distract the possessed Carolyn from killing her daughter by reminding her of a special memory she shared with her family, allowing Ed to complete the exorcism, saving Carolyn and her daughter.

Review:

Best Horror Movie Ever! Period.

The scares are scarier and the effect is unimaginable. From the very start you feel glued to the seat, even popcorns aren’t required unless you try to escape the horror!

The performances are flawless.

"all the scream-inducing shocks you could want, right on schedule"

The Conjuring is that horror flick we’ve been waiting for so long! So many scenes to skip heartbeat but the closet one wins over!

After watching the girls pay hide’n’clap every clap will haunt!

One of the best thing in this movie is Annabelle the doll. I bet she beats Chucky in the sequel of Conjuring.

“Extremely well-crafted and gleefully creepy”

Performance Ratings:

Lorraine Warren:

Vera Farmiga.

She has done extremely well. One of the very smart tv-life paranormal investigator!

****

Ed Warren:

Patrick Wilson.

Very Well Indeed. He was surely in his element in this one.

****

Lili Taylor:

Carolyn Perron.

A thumbs-up performance.

****

The Girls:

They have put in their best to make the movie one of the most refined horror ever!

*****

one for each ;)

My Rating For This Epic Horror Movie is :
****1/2

Reviewed By : Adina Farid

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Movie Review:- Insidious: Chapter 2

Movie Review:- Insidious: Chapter 2

Cast:

Patrick Wilson ... Josh Lambert

Rose Byrne ... Renai Lambert

Ty Simpkins ... Dalton Lambert

Lin Shaye ... Elise Rainier

Barbara Hershey ... Lorraine Lambert

Steve Coulter ... Carl

Leigh Whannell ... Specs

Angus Sampson ... Tucker

Andrew Astor ... Foster Lambert

Directed By  ...  James Wan

Story By  ... James Wan & Leigh Whannel

Plot:

Chapter 2 starts from right where we last left it, death of Elise and weird Josh. You feel glued to the screen as the scenes from chapter 1 flow through the screen. Insidious 2 is about giving an end to an evil turn of events and sending back someone who doesn’t belong to the living world.

Movie takes us back in 1986 where a medium named Carl calls upon his friend Elise to help discover what is haunting Lorraine Lambert's son, Josh. After hypnotizing Josh, Elise attempts to find the location of Josh's "friend" (an old woman who appears in photographs of Josh) through playing “Hot or Cold”. After warnings from Josh, Elise makes her way to his bedroom closet and is scratched along the arm. As a result, Lorraine, Carl, and Elise agree that making Josh forget his astral projection abilities is the best thing to do.

In present, Renai is deeply unhappy with her husband’s behavior and doubts his moves. She is still unrecovered from Elise’s sudden death and what she saw in that camera. Even after moving in with her mother-in-law in their family house she feels the negative entities lurking in ambush to possess her family. The situation has gone worst now that she can’t even trust her own husband.

Josh is seen convincing Renai that there is nothing wrong and that the bad days are over, he is forcing his decision of ignoring everything unusual on her. On the other side he is aging rapidly and is speaking to someone behind the curtain.

Renai sees a woman wearing a white dress sitting in the living room. Following the cries of her baby throughout the house, Renai comes face-to-face with the woman in white and is knocked unconscious. During this time, Lorraine visits Elise's colleagues Specs and Tucker to seek an explanation behind the strange events. In doing so, they call upon Carl, who listens to Lorraine's story and attempts to contact Elise on the other side using word-dice. Through the dice, they are told to find answers at the "Our Lady of Angels" hospital (the former workplace of Lorraine). Led through the hospital to the ICU, Lorraine recounts a story of a patient named Parker Crane, who committed suicide by jumping off the roof many years ago. The four decide that Elise is leading them to this man's house. After breaking into Parker's home, they find a black gown and veil as well as newspaper clippings about a killer referred to as "The Bride in Black" who kidnapped and murdered several people while dressed as a woman. It is then revealed to them that it was not Elise speaking through the dice, but actually Parker's mother.

After Renai recovers with Josh at her side, Lorraine arrives home and insists that she, Renai, and the kids get away from Josh. In the car, she explains the origin of "The Bride In Black" and the theory that the real Josh is trapped in the Further. At this same moment, Carl arrives at the house to drug the Josh (possessed by Parker Crane) while Specs and Tucker monitor from their van parked outside. The plan fails, however, and Josh incapacitates Carl, Specs and Tucker. After receiving a message saying everything is okay, Lorraine and Renai return to the house only to be ambushed by Josh. Locking Lorraine in the closet, Josh attempts to choke Renai but is knocked over the head with a bat by Dalton, who has returned home with Foster. Renai and the children then escape to the basement where they barricade themselves in the laundry room. Lying down in a corner with a tin can telephone, Dalton falls asleep and returns to the Further to rescue his father. 

Meanwhile, in the Further, the real Josh stumbles upon Carl and the two look for Elise, finding her at the Lamberts' previous home. The three then proceed to Parker's house where they witness his mother, the woman in white, abusing him as a child, whereby she attempts to convince him that his name is Marylyn.

 The mother notices the group observing and locks Carl and Elise out of the room. When Josh turns around, the room is dark and filled with standing bodies covered by sheets—the bodies are assumed to be Parker's previous victims. Upon finding Parker's mother among the bodies, the two engage in a fight. Just as Parker, who possessed Josh's body is about to kill Dalton's physical body, Elise enters the room with the help of young Parker and saves Josh by hitting the woman in white with a rocking horse. After the three escape the house, they meet Dalton, who assists Carl and Josh to return to the living world. After Josh and Dalton wake up as themselves, their memories of their astral projection abilities are forgotten through a process of hypnosis as the screen turns white.

That is how they climaxed the horror and retrieved family’s happiness.

But the movie doesn’t end here… Director has already prepared us to brace ourselves for another exciting sequel of Insidious. How? You might wanna see yourself!

Review

The ways this movie starts you can it’s gonna be Great! And it is. It maintained and increased the level of horror and gave a great ending to lambert family’s misery.

Everything you witness on screen feeds the hunger for horror. 

Cinema Nazis have been rating this movie quite dishonestly but as a normal person and a horror-lover I definitely waste my money and time on this one. You simply can’t miss the insidiously interesting movie.

Comparatively, Chapter 2 is better than 1 but some flaws are too big to ignore if you watch critically. Performance can somewhat disappoint you but the whole package is worth it!

"the scares are mostly very scary indeed, and that means the film does its job."

Performance Ratings:

Josh:

Patrick Wilson.

He did a good job by spooking with that Parker Crane thing!

However a little less in his element.

Renai:

Rose Byrne.

After watching her worrying on screen you start sympathizing with the housewife-in-distress!

“Things tend to happen when it gets dark”

My Rating For This Horror Flick Is:

****

Reviewed By : Adina Farid

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