Hollywood: Stop lying about the content of your films!

Rating: 1/10 (31 July 2013)

People are out going out of their minds (even critics!) proclaiming how fantastic The Conjuring is supposed to be. Don't get me wrong, I love a good horror film; especially one that doesn't cling to the modernist jump- scare paradigm, but rather builds terror around suspense and immersively- felt danger.
But I will never watch this movie except out of morbid curiosity and to justify my disdain for it. I hate this film even without having seen it for the same reason I hate any exorcism movie that's come out in the past two decades. That. One. Little. Phrase.
"Based on a true story."
Go sell your snake oil elsewhere; I'm not having it.