Satan cannot be happy with this demon's efforts.

Rating: Null/10 (30 December 2013)

I love the movie's epilogue: "Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. Oprah exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which we elect to follow: Oprah or God." So simple, yet so true.
I also very much enjoyed the movie's prologue: "This movie is based on a true story – as true as anything that guy with the funny hair tells you on ANCIENT ALIENS."
For those of you who were a little bored with "A Haunting in Connecticut", rest assured that TC is much better. While not always gripping, the movie is never dull, with a good flow, some interesting scenes, and with yet another demonic failure. "Diabolical forces are formidable" the movie confidently claims. But are they really? This witch-demon wasn't able to kill a single character, not even any of the 6 girls all of whom should have been easy targets; there were over a dozen people milling about both haunted houses and yet the demon just couldn't get his act together, failing time and time again. And what a poor shot! Even using a gun at close range against civilians was too much for this witch hell-beast. Eventually, all it took to beat the demon was an amateur non-priest improvising a little with the Bible, in what was admittedly a hotly contested exorcism with a lot of broken furniture and plenty of screaming.
I have to address this demon's incompetence further. She had 103 years to wreck havoc on humanity, but all she managed was to kill a handful of people. Given Warren's cute analogy of demons "latching on like a stepped-on chewing-gum", and given the witch's enormous power, why hasn't she overtaken the entire American continent by 1971? Give me half her power, and I would rule the world within a week (if I were so inclined). Satan needs to send these demons to better training courses, because some of them just aren't doing too well in possession and murdering people.
That Warren couple must be a real piece of work, forging a decades-long career out of utter bull's dung. Well done; many a charlatan had their career cut short by prison-sentences, but this pair found a way to con the easily "connable" and even made money giving lectures at Universities about phony-baloney ghosts and goofy exorcisms. Still, they were useful in one way: a solid horror film was made about them, though not EXACTLY in keeping with the actual facts, perhaps straying just a little bit from the truth, say maybe 180 degrees, but no more than that.
There was some illogical nonsense, as always. When Lili Taylor witnesses pictures falling from the wall, NO-ONE in the house is woken by the massive racket, nor are they woken by the slamming of the cellar doors. Quite preposterous, considering that all five of her kids were in the house during this noisy ordeal. Also moronic was the fact that Ed Warren didn't lock the room in which he kept all those (allegedly) dangerous items, an omission that allowed his young daughter to rummage around in it, exposing the family to various "genies-in-the-bottles" who could come out and wreck havoc – and one of them did. When Warren finds his daughter hiding in the forbidden room, he gently pats her on the cheek instead of smacking her one real hard so she'd never again be tempted to conjure hell-fire demons from the deepest corners of Gahanna.
I was baffled by the pair's decision to head straight for the haunted house, just minutes after saving their daughter's life – leaving her in the same house in which she'd been terrorized just a bit earlier! But I guess one has to be a properly trained DEMONOLOGIST in order to understand all the fine intricacies and nuances of demon-control and behavior of Satan's minions. Who am I to question the decision of such a renowned scientist?
Still, we should consider ourselves lucky that Wan only directed TC, considering he's the guy who wrote one of the stupidest scripts of all time ("Saw"). TC would have been a very dumb movie had he chosen to write it up as well.