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| The Conjuring is a lot of fun. by Fullofkittens 07/30/2013, 9:39pm PDT | ||||
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| Though I was not an admirer of James Wan's previous movie Insidious, I now see it as a rough draft for The Conjuring, which is superior in every way, and is a great popcorn horror movie.
I saw Insidious as a lame haunted house movie; The Conjuring is more like a haunted house ride movie. You are led from scary scenario to scary scenario like you're in some October haunted house attraction. My favorite part of The Ring (US) was where Naomi Watts gets donked on the head by a TV and falls down a well. She's down there with an evil ghost! She is in A WELL, WITH AN EVIL GHOST, and you sit there with your lizard brain going FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK because movie magic makes you feel like you're in a well with an evil ghost. The Conjuring has like half a dozen of these sequences, a couple being more drawn out than the others. Listing the high-level descriptions of these sequences makes The Conjuring sound like a pastiche of older horror movies (especially Poltergeist, Evil Dead, and The Exorcist), and it is, but it would be easy for that movie to suck, if the scares didn't land. They land. It turns out that the difference between a good ghost story and a bad one is in the rhythm of the telling; James Wan and his editor (Kirk Morri, who also never made a really scary movie before, good job guys!), they pulled it off this time. I spent a lot of this movie in that FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK place worrying about what was about to happen, and then laughing and hi fiving my sister when the scene was over. In retrospect, it's pretty dumb and ridiculous, but I had a great time watching it. 4/5. SCROLL FOR SPOILER: At no point in The Conjuring does anyone do anything that could be described as "conjuring." |
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The Conjuring is a lot of fun. by 07/30/2013, 9:39pm PDT  Popcorn clause: NT by 07/30/2013, 10:31pm PDT Most definitely. by 07/31/2013, 4:17am PDT |
