Of the movie would have played itself out 70 or so years earlier maybe but in the 1970′s? It just felt somewhat surreal to see this "ghosthunter" make presentations and talk to people like supernatural entities and the practice of exorcism was just things that happened. One thing that irked me with the movie though was the idea of phantoms and performing exorcism being presented as kind of normal and accepted things. Sure, the movie also includes the traditional pitfalls that most horror movies apparently must have like people thinking it is a good idea to walk down into the dark and scary basement all alone in the middle of the night. As I wrote, it is not really something new, but it is nice to see a new movie using this kind of story without just turning it into a CGI gore-feast.
What were these people expecting? This is a solid effort of making a movie along the classical lines of supernatural possession. I do not think it really deserves the glowing 9 or 10 star ratings that I have seen but it certainly do not merit those 1 or 2 star ones either. It is fairly impossible not to think about, and make comparisons with, The Amityville Horror when seeing this movie. This is a good movie although it is not really something new in terms of story. Slow and creepy build up to a final outburst and confrontation with an evil entity. That was pretty much what I was hoping for.
The Conjuring is a fairly classical horror/haunted house/exorcism movie.
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