An Unexpected Masterwork - James Wan's Best Film Yet

Rating: 7/10 (18 July 2013)

The Conjuring was a surprisingly excellent film. James Wan really is beginning to create a name for himself in the horror genre. Most garbage out there overplays every possible aspect of it, throwing pointless scares at it's viewers from all angles. In The Conjuring, there wasn't too much of anything - every jump had purpose, every detail really meant something. The first half built suspense properly without any clichéd horror tactics, the end of the first half and a period in the beginning of the second developed the characters, allowing the writing to really flourish, and the rest of the second half was sincerely terrifying. With some excellent cinematography and acting thrown in, this was easily the best horror film in recent memory. 8/10.