Starring: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston
Married couple Ed (Wilson) and Lorraine (Farmiga) Warren are experts in the field of detecting possessions and hauntings, aided by Lorraine's ability to sense the paranormal. In 1971, the Perron family settled into their new home, only to experience various supernatural disturbances. The Warrens investigate, uncovering a dark and demonic past.
Claiming to be based on a true story, The Conjuring is a haunted house film from James Wan, the director of Saw (2005). The Conjuring plays mostly towards the expected conventions of the haunted house film and treads a path through pretty much everything you'd expect; odd noises and occurrences, strange whispers and plenty of scares designed to jolt you out of your seat. The film definitely owes a debt to The Amityville Horror (1979 and Poltergeist (1982) to the point where certain elements, and even scenes, from those films are heavily alluded to here. The film's best asset is how it plays with structure, with he more sedate scenes of the Warrens' home life and time giving lectures on their field being well (if unevenly) handled. There are countless films like The Conjuring and plenty of them are just plain better than The Conjuring. However, the film's use of tension and shock tactics is impressive and whilst the film lurches a little too much towards the unintentionally comic (especially in the last act) it's a perfectly serviceable horror film
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