Suspensive but in the end just another religious good vs evil

Rating: 6/10 (11 September 2016)

It is always fascinating to learn about supernatural events and to think about it. It can be tempting to fantasise that ghosts might be real.
So here we have a ghost story. A family in UK reports some supernatural incidents. It is all centered around Janet, who speaking with a gutural voice, etc. Everyone can interpret the story in his own way, but most likely two girls who needed attention faked a ghost story to get attention. There is no proof of levitation (must likely they jumped) and everybody who listened to death metal knows that it is possible to work on a gutural voice. So far the true story
What Hollywood made out of it was again a good vs evil story. There is the demon Valek who already before the incidents happened was connected to the Warrens (Ed painted a picture of Valek and Lorraine had visions of Eds death). So the couple investigates the case and first, we assume it is the ghost of Bill (who died in that house) who wants the family be gone. Later it turns out that the main evil being is of course Valek who is an evil demon. And we have all the classical stereotypes. Crosses that turn over, the crucifix as a main weapon against evil, etc. Until in the end Valek can be cast out as Lorraine knew his name.
In my opinion, the storyline was dull. The 6 points are justified by the suspense and the characters. I really found scenes scary and surprising.