The Perron Haunting

Rating: 8/10 (16 December 2013)

James Wan directed this harrowing film adaptation of a previously untold case of paranormal investigators Ed & Lorraine Warren(played by Patrick Wilson & Vera Farmiga) who are called in to help Roger & Carolyn Perron(played by Ron Livingston & Lili Taylor) who have recently moved into a farmhouse in Rhode Island with their five daughters that turns out to be haunted by both ghosts and a demonic witch who had caused their deaths, and now wants to possess the wife for a most sinister purpose, while the Warrens and the other family members do everything they can to help, though an exorcism is the only way to stop the witch...Chilling film is superbly directed and acted, which provides genuine scares with a palpable atmosphere of fear and dread, and a minimum of violence and profanity, with the subplot of Annabelle the doll also quite effective. A model of its kind, and the Warrens are more properly presented here than they had been in the TV movie "The Haunted".