The Best Horror has to offer

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2016)

When you move into a new home the last thing on your mind is whether or not you are going to be possessed by an evil witch who has been haunting the house for centuries, but in the conjuring we are forced to see the horrors that bestowed themselves on the Perron family. At first I was optimistic about seeing this film as so many others have tried to do the haunted house story but this film has many elements to set it apart from the others. Firstly, I think the fact that is all true and that the people who experienced this are alive and able to talk about it sets a fear off in you because it's not just some guy who has thought this up when he was sitting in his shed hunched over his type writer, real people experienced this. Secondly, I think the presence of the Warren's also makes it feel a lot more realistic as it's not like the family are trying to get rid of the evil on their own they have got help which is what we would usually shout at the TV screen when people take matters into their own hands. Thirdly, I love the music throughout the film most horrors now don't have that crescendo of notes building the tension up. My favorite few moments are when the real heart pounding scenes are on and they show a small shot of the front of the house and play that spine tingling noise which just confirms how bad this is for them. A final major element that makes this film for me is the unraveling of the plot and yes they find out about the witch and they believe that is all they are dealing with but there is so much more evil, sadness and pain roaming around that home which makes you feel so repulsed by it many of you may have reached for the remote. Lili Taylor really delivers her role well and really makes you think is she just ill or is the witch slowly getting to her? In addition, her exorcism scene was so dramatic and emotion by the end I felt as though I could finally sit back in my seat and relax as it was all over. The best scene for me had to be Joey King's main piece when there was definitely something behind that door, the sheer terror of her face and the fact that we couldn't see what was behind the door but we too knew there was something there made it a lot more scarier than there actually being something behind the door. All in all this film soared past my expectations and really scared me.