New Benchmark

Rating: 8/10 (31 March 2019)

Recent horror movies are not horror movies at all: screamers and slashers can't be considered as scary.
The Conjuring 2 is, indeed, based on stories we have already seen: the haunted house, poor family, possessed child...sounds like a boring movie, right?
But here comes the giant NO.
The atmosphere of the film is really intense, we can things we have been afraid as children and desperation.
Valak, enigmatic and powerful demon, who was playing with the family and used a ghost to get his own body. You haven't expected it, have you? All of this, added with an almost iconic soundtrack, which is chilling your back at night.
I've watched hundreds of horror movies, but all of them lacked good acting or good music or just being a horror movie. The Conjuring is definitely a game changer, which sets a very high benchmark for horrors.