It is a movie...

Rating: 5/10 (11 April 2020)

I was reluctant to watch this, because i had this pre judgement in my mind, that this movie was gonna be just another haunted house movie with cheap jump scares, uninsteresting characters, and no real conclusion. Now, after watching it, i have to say, it was almost everything i thought it was gonna be. There are certain exposition scenes, that that if you pay attetion you pretty much seen the whole movie.
I may be exagerating, but if you like a grand spectacle of paranormal demonic stuff that doesn't make any sense, that's the only way you gonna sit through this movie til the end, and enjoy it. This movie asks for to much in the first act, we are left with this constant feeling that something is coming, but does that in the worst way possible, as we follow this characters for way to long as they wander through the scene waiting for a scare, and my god, those characters have nothing, they are walking talking souless manequins, the movie gives you absolutely nothing to care about, and personally, i was very bored. Even when the tension began to build up, and the scares were happening, i could see almost everyone of them coming a mile away, so that didn't help to my experience...
Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are great in this movie, and that helps a lot, as soon as the second act begins and we get more of them the movie picks up, they are great. The problem is, we want more of them, i didn't care to much about the other characters, but obviously the movie didn't gave me that.
I already mentioned the third act earlier, so i'm not gonna talk more about it. The Conjuring is a very blend horror, that gets saved by its director that has a very cool style and vision, James Wan is great, and its protagonists, and overall cast as well, everyone does their job really well here, unfortunatelly, they don't have much to work with, as this movie barely has a plot or character development, it just asks us to turn our brain off and enjoy a senseless paranormal spectacle, and that's not for me, if it works for foi that's fine.