The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
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THE CONJURING 2 is a follow up to the surprise haunted house hit and another outing for psychic investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, as played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. Sadly, I'm no fan of these films, finding the direction overblown and the reliance on cliches and pedestrian plotting to be completely off-putting. This unconvincing sequel transports the action to England, where the investigators are shoehorned into the famous Enfield Poltergeist case. They end up bringing their old baggage with them, so this is more about evil nuns and stupid spirits than any attempts at realism. The over-the-top fantasy hauntings involving Farmiga's character never gel with the icy chills of the poltergeist case, and it's one of those Hollywood films that manages to make all of the British accents ring hollow and false. By the end, it's devolved into yet another chased-around-by-CGI climax, just like in the INSIDIOUS trilogy, and my interest had long since waned.
James Wan's not-so-subtle scares are bolstered by the chemistry between Wilson and Farmiga. You'd think the love story embedded within his horror would be a tonal nightmare, but even the musical number before the final act plays like a touching romance story and makes the Marilyn Manson-esque Nun all the scarier.
Watch this alone in the dark - if you dare. Grabs you and the beginning and keeps your adrenaline going the entire movie - almost too intense.
Other people rating this must have seen a different version because the one I saw was horrible. It might not have been so bad if they hadn't claimed it was a based on truth (it isn't, and if you think it is, you need to talk to a professional about it).Very Christian, very silly, very bad acting. Giving it 3 stars because the child actors weren't bad. The adults; however, needed a better director.