Get out of my house part 2!!!!

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2017)

The year is 1977 and paranormal investigators Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) and Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson)travel across the Atlantic to Enfield, London to help a single mother of four children Peggy Hodgson (Frances O'Connor)who believes that there is a presence in her home. Things take a turn for the worst when one of Peggy's daughters Janet (Madison Wolfe) becomes the focus of the entity's attention....
In many ways this sequel was quite brave as I could see that James Wan could have potentially set himself up for a fall - this film is essentially an English version of The Amityville horror and I could imagine that some people may complain about it being a rip-off of The Amityville Horror(although in fairness to Wan he does make no pretences that the film is anything else given the fact that The Amityville Horror is referenced in the early stages of the film and like The Amityville Horror the events that happened in London are purportedly based on true events as well).
Despite the familiar central premise, The Conjuring 2 still has a lot of strong and nice touches about it. Like the first film, Wan builds up the suspense admirably and again moves the camera around well; the score is good and is also used well and at the appropriate times. Wan has also done an excellent job in recreating 1970's Britain which gives the film an appropriate sense of time and period.
Like the first film, this sequel has its fair share of creepy and shocking moments and many of these sequences are carried off with a degree of skill and professionalism. Unfortunately, there are odd 'scary' moments in the film that didn't work for me whereby they looked more silly than scary, but there were more moments where the scares worked so this isn't a major criticism.
The acting is pretty good too with both Farmiga and Wilson being on good form. Frances O'Connor is also endearing as the struggling single parent. However, the real star of the show was young Madison Wolfe who stole the show from her adult co-stars.
Even though this is basically a reinterpretation of The Amityville Horror it still has enough of James Wan's style about it to make it an enjoyable experience. It does have much of the feel of the first film about it which does make some of what you see here a tad more predictable, but the chances are that if you liked the first film then you should still enjoy this one too.