The Conjuring

Rating: 7/10 (17 April 2019)

It's an okay film. The build up is kinda slow but it gives time to establish good characters in Ed and Lorraine Warren. The cast for the most part does a good job. 2 of the child actors are decent and the others are garbage. There is only 1 jump scare in the movie that actually got me while I predicted all the other ones.
The movie is also kinda dark lighting wise. I watched this film in a dark room and some of the scenes were just too dark to see anything.
The plot is good. I understood what was going on and what the characters are doing and why. The film flowed nicely from scene to scene. The first 5 minutes are awful though. We basically get 3 introductions to Ed and Lorraine that repeats the same thing. It's only there to establish Annabelle for her spin off movie.
The last 20 minutes are amazing though. The exorcism scene is the best sequence in the film. There's tension, the camera shakes but it works with the scene, the lighting is good, the music is good, and the makeup on the demon is really good, and most importantly, it's CREEPY.
The Conjuring is a decent horror film that provides good characters, good story, and an amazing 3rd act at the expense of bad child actors, predictable scares, slow build up, and bad lighting.