Everyone has a ghost story or at least knows someone who does. Some
people use these stories as a game, something you do while you sit around a
campfire or something. To others those stories are not to be retold, instead
they are locked away and you hope you can forget. I have heard stories from
people that I couldn’t believe and would never want to experience them
personally. The only things I have seen that terrified me have been on a movie
screen, and I have seen enough of those to know the rules. You never go and
investigate a noise in a cellar by yourself, also if things start moving by
themselves just get out, and finally never buy a house or some land if you
don’t know it’s history. Unfortunately for the Perron family they didn’t follow
any of those rules.
“The
Conjuring” is a story of a family in the 1970’s who buys what they think is
their dream home in Rhode Island. Not long after moving in, things start to
happen that are unexplained. Things like the house being cold, doors opening
and closing on their own, and seeing people that were not really there. After a
few months of these things happening, the family seeks out Ed and Lorraine
Warren, who are experts on such unexplained occurrences. What the Warren’s find
is the worst thing they have ever investigated.
Let’s
face it; we all like to be scared. We want to find that horror movie that makes
us fear the noises we hear at night when the lights are off. With so many
stories out there, you would think that they could make a movie that did that.
Well “The Conjuring” is not there, but it is pretty close. Not since watching
“The Exorcist” as a child, have I experienced the chills that ran up my neck.
This is not a “jump out of your seat” scary movie, this is a tense and at times
terrifying scary movie. Making you jump is easy, have someone appear out of
nowhere, or a loud noise break dead silence. The trick for me though, is
feeling like I should leave the closet light on because of the things I saw. Ed
and Lorraine Warren’s case files have been used as basis of a few films. Films like
“The Amityville Horror”. “The Haunting in Connecticut”, and “The
Haunting”. Just like in “The Amityville
Horror” in 1979, “The Conjuring” brings a story that will make you believe in things
that are unbelievable. I think the best review I can give this movie is after
the credits rolled, I believed what I just saw really happened. Imagine that, a based on true horror story
that I believed.
This is a movie that will have some of you watching it
through your fingers. It may not answer all questions or prove to you that some
things really exist. What “The Conjuring” will do that most movies like it
don’t, it will remind you of a time when horror was good and scary.
Brian Taylor
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