Quality horror movie with lots of scares and a great storyline

Rating: 10/10 (11 August 2013)

NOTE: No spoilers except for in the second paragraph and it's kind of a minor one
The worst thing about most horror films the last few years is the lack of story and character development, while they instead focus on making you jump (mostly failing) and making you puke with so much gore (this works most of the time). The Conjuring was different in that it had an actual story that you cared about and the characters made you care more about them than whatever supernatural beings were in the house or whatever.
They didn't really explain the ghosts/demons/antagonists all that well, but I'm glad because it focused on the characters more and we knew all we needed of the supernatural beings. I loved that they had the house just be so completely haunted, instead of it just being one spirit, it was literally like 10.
I'm a fan of horror films so when I watch one, I usually know what to expect but this movie exceeded all of my expectations. The main thing I look for is what sets one horror movie apart from the others, most of them that are different and good usually aren't all that scary which most people don't like. This one was scary almost the whole way through, parts of it really made me jump. They didn't do anything all that different from other horror movies, but they did it all much better and more thought out.
Definitely a movie I'd recommend.