spooky stuff

Rating: 7/10 (8 September 2013)

Despite hating the title, and thinking it all looked like the usual "little girl ghost" kind of stuff, I went to see "The Conjuring" fairly recently, and was pleasantly surprised.
Maybe I shouldn't of been. Its from the same people that brought us "Sinister" and "Paranormal activity." Horror movies that prey on psychologically freaked out viewers such as myself.
It all sounds vaguely familiar though. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga play paranormal investigators who are called to the aid of a genuinely terrified family, as they start experiencing strange and spooky stuff going on in their new home. Which of course they can't leave because they've just spent a fortune moving there.
What could have been a pretty standard haunted house movie though is given a boost by being a sometimes genuinely scary haunted house movie. After we get all of the usual doors slamming and stuff floating around rubbish out of the way, this one shows signs of some promise. Plus I had a good time at the cinema with this one. Everyone there seemed to enjoy it, and there haven't been that many times at the cinema where everyone was really getting freaked out by the same movie. I was loving some of the atmosphere on this one. One that will get remembered as a great night out this.