The Conjuring

So last night I went to the cinema to watch "The Conjuring" a horror film! I don't often go to the cinema to watch horror films because most of the time they are pretty poor and not scary. But this one was a really good horror film and definitely scary.

 

 

 

Now anyone who says that they weren't scared at all during this film is probably telling a little lie or they are someone who is already disturbed enough not to be bothered. There are many different types of scary/horror movies, the "possession", the "paranormal", the "physcopath" etc. other films such as Saw are more gory and a more "What if this happened" sort of scary. But this type of a film is a more traumatizing scary and personally I find these films the scariest.

 

Check out the trailer:

 

 

 

Bow the good thing about this film is that they have missed out all the best bits in the trailer so you definitely get a blasting of horror that you won't have seen coming.

 

The following may contain minor spoilers:

 

This film fits quite well in between the "Paranormal Activity" films and "Insidious" films. It has hints of other films and has a pretty regular sort of storyline. A family with a young family and a dog, moving to a big white wooden house in the middle of the countryside with lake and of course a cellar. Therefore from the start you are thinking of a regular sort of horror. The film has hints of Amityville Horror and The Orphanage but in this case its the father who doesn't become psychopathic or possessed and try and kill their children.

 

The house is haunted by not one but many entities similar to that of Insidious and throughout the film there is almost a constant scarefest from the very start.

 

I think the things that made the film really good, was the fact that the acting was really good, there were a few familiar faces in there and the way the film was shot was excellent. It has nearly everything that Paranormal brought but instead of being filmed on hand held cameras it was proper film footage, therefore a lot scarier angles. It had all the ghostly occurrences plus the demonic possessions. Plus the film didn't just focus around the family, it followed a couple who specialise in paranormal / demonic possessions and it was good to see something a bit different than just the family. It also shows moments of the  occasions when the couple have helped out which are just as scary as the film. The film starts with something totally different to the main storyline but with one horrifying doll!

 

These sort of films scare me the most and there was several times when I was hiding behind my hands and even occasions when I had cover my ears. There was a lot of silent moments in the film along with loud crashes and sounds along with intense music and even during the credits the music is truly haunting! Definitely a scarefest! I would probably say that this film is one of the scariest I have seen. Yet I found the Grudge scary when I was little, though I was only about 13! Now I can just laugh at it.

 

So in my opinion filmwise I'll give it 8/10 and scarywise 10/10.

 

Hopefully they will make another one and I'm pretty sure with all those possessed items in that house at the end I am sure it will!