Haunted farm house on the hill - and supposedly true too!

Rating: 6/10 (29 December 2013)

Why is it that the demonic forces of hell seem only vested in haunting American families in big wooden houses found in the countryside? Does hell only have a one way exit to America? Why is it since the legendary "ghost-hunters" or Demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren hung up their possession hunting crowns, opting instead for death and retirement, that all ghosts and demons now appear to have lost the will or ability to stir up echoes. And what was it with the seventies that got all these ghosts and demons into a dizzy whorl that they needed to posses everything from houses to dolls?
The Conjuring does very little to answer any of those important questions as we once again enter another house Stateside that has a dark entity attached to it that baying for all of its occupants blood. For a film of such a nature the one thing I can say is that it did manage to conjure up a rather marvelous cast - Vera Farmiga and Lilly Taylor are both excellent in their roles and add a certain amount of gravitas to what is normally a nameless entity.
Whilst certainly not believable in the slightest nor scary in the least, if you can suspend your disbelieve for a fraction of a second you may just to believe this whole tale of witchcraft and satanic horror scaring the bejesus out of an everyday 1970's American family to be actually true until real life intrudes as the final credits begin to roll.