Ghost Stories within a Ghost Story

Rating: 8/10 (17 October 2013)

The Conjuring introduces us to Ed and Lorraine Warren, renowned paranormal investigators and demonologists, in one of the most exciting and effective openings in horror film history.
It is 1971 now and Carolyn and Roger Perron are moving their family into an old Rhode Island farm house. It slows right down and continues as a typical haunted house flick until Carolyn contacts Warren Ed and Lorraine for help. Usually with horror films, the more you know of the story, the less scary things seem. With The Conjuring, the more you find out, the less you want to know.
Excellent performances, direction, cinematography, set-design and an epic soundtrack that the film lives up to. This is one true story that you'll wish wasn't true.
The Conjuring opens with an unforgettably frightening story within a series of ghost stories that make up the film. While it plays off the haunted house films of the 70's and early 80's, it goes on to surpasses them. Even if guilty of taking the best parts from all the greatest classic horror films and mixing them into one, it does so successfully thanks to the director. Between this and Insidious, James Wan has become one of the best directors working in horror and a master of haunted house stories.