Original story seemed scarier than the movie.

Rating: 7/10 (27 July 2013)

I went to go see this movie with the intention of seeing "the scariest movie of the century" as someone else had put it, but was finding myself laughing more at the movie then anything. I enjoy a good scary movie, but I can still make out the directors sense of humor every time I watch his movies. He enjoys toying with the audience, which is why his "evil characters" are always so mischievous and funny to me. His characters always have the same sort of funny makeup on, stylized in his regular fashion. I sat there more entertained and saying "holy s***" because this movie is so ridiculous, and not really scary. As soon as the Warrens showed up, I almost felt cradled by their presence, something I didn't enjoy! I wanted to be scared longer. I think it was a little too soon for them to show up. I got bored. I watched a few things on YouTube about the family that this had originally happened to, and it seemed scarier then what happened in this movie. I would have enjoyed seeing the daughters playing with the Ouija board prior to the crazy stuff happening, because apparently that's how it all happened. I would have enjoyed seeing the ghosts do more stuff before seeing their faces too. All in all, it was a good, entertaining movie, but in my opinion I would have scared the audience more and not cradled them in the Warrens presence for so long but maybe I'm just twisted that way.