An Improved Sequel To A Very Good Movie

Rating: 9/10 (10 June 2016)

THE CONJURING 2 - I would like to start my review by stating the fact that , this is not at all a usual horror movie we watch every 2nd month of the year full of cliché , usual scares and where every story seems to be same as other. Rather its a HORROR - DRAMA. I mean the horror part of the movie is as much as important as the drama part is. Its not always about the ghost , sometimes its about the love , trust and friendship of a couple , sometimes its about sticking together with your family in hard times and sometimes its about your faith , to believe more than you see. First of all its a really good improvement on a very good movie THE CONJURING. But i would like to say about a couple of things i don't like - Obviously its about spirits and ghosts , so we cant always find logic in the activities of those spirits and ghosts , i mean who knows whatever ghost do why exactly they do. There is not always a reasoning to it. Still i am not exactly convinced with the objective of the ghost in this movie. Let just leave this point here as to elaborate it i have to discuss the story which i don't want to do. The 2nd thing is that - Why exactly a ghost tell his name to a person if he knows that by the name that human can control him. Again to understand what m trying to say , you have to watch the film . Apart from these two thing there are mostly good things in the movie which i m gonna discuss now. James Wan is currently the best horror movie director working in Hollywood. He is also directing the upcoming AQUAMAN in the DC UNIVERSE. And i was a little bit scared about this fact , but after watching conjuring 2 i am totally convinced that he can make a great superhero movie too. I have seen all of his movies , SAW was nice for the genre , DEAD SILENCE was his worst , DEATH sentence was pretty nice , Insidious was better then just good , CONJURING was very good , INSIDIOUS 2 was better then the first Part and then FURIOUS 7 which i guess the whole world liked. Its great to watch how he developed as a director. And m so glade that he decided to give importance to the drama as much as the horror part. Its a long movie , about 2hrs and 15mins , which is way higher then the usual horror movie of one and a half hour. Because as i said its not about the ghost always. Yes it ask for a little patience , but it gets paid off , at least for a movie lover like me who don't need everything in hurry and can give time and chance to the movie to get you dissolve in it. A question can be were there enough horror scenes. I would say yes there are. A lot of . Yes it depends on the amount of horror you consume within yourself , i mean how much a ghost can make you scare. I personally got one JUMP OF ON YOUR SEAT SCENE as well as my friend. But two girls sitting just next to my seat had seen the whole movie with holding each other out of fear. You can judge a lot from that.
Another thing what the movie did different that , it is set up in ENGLAND and not America. Which made it a different experience. Let me warn you , if you are watching this in English pleas watch it in a theater which provides subtitle , otherwise it would be difficult to understand the British Accent.
The people of England behave in a very different way as compared to Americans. They have more humor and are gentle in behaving. There is a very good comic scene in the movie where two police officers see the chair moving by itself and came out of the house saying they cant help as this thing is beyond them. That particular scene couldn't have been possible if the movie has been set in America because in America the police officers are much more serious in their behavior. And that scene was not the only light moment in the movie. The movie was full of such scenes.
Vera Fermiga and Patrick Wilson as Warren HUSBAND - WIFE are great again. They trust each other and work great as a team. They also care very much for each other as they know what they do is a life threatening task. There was a scene where Patrick Wilson sing a song for the Haunted Family to make the situation light for the time being , and at that moment the way Vera looked at her singing husband , her expression shows that how much lucky she feels herself to find ED as his husband. That particular scene is a proof that JAMES WAN can even direct a romantic film.
The British Cast was great too. The Girl who played JANET (the possessed girl) and the boy who played his sweet brother BILLY were the best. Cinematography was really good , and the period setting was great. Also the music director has done a nice job. Its a great horror movie about a ghost , but also a sweet movie about a sweet family and also a soothing movie about a lovely couple who like to help others by using the extraordinary power they have. M very selective when it comes to a horror film. But now Conjuring series is among my favorite ones , along with Ring series , Insidious series , Oculus , Exorcist and It FOLLOWS. 8.2/10 by ANuP APu KuMaR..