Mr. Wan did it again!!

Rating: 9/10 (9 August 2013)

Now we have to admit that James Wan has created a style of his own in order to do scary movies. It began with Saw, then Dead Silence, then Insidious. He evolved again in The Conjuring.
Saw it yesterday. Pop-corn chewing noises and coughs along the theater didn't happen at all throughout the second half of the movie. People were tense and scared as f**ck. I was, too.
Wan's way of filming is particularly disturbing. He pulls out tricks you rarely see in a director nowadays. He knows faces can be scary as hell. He knows about the primal fear we all have for the possessed puppets. Scary witches, powerful demons, chilling strange sounds, anacronic music, wicked kids. He displays so much on screen is hard to memorize those tricks, but one thing is shure: they work.
In The Conjuring, jumps and scares are rarely predictable. As a horror fan who saw lots of those movies I can't tell you how do I appreciate that. So you never know how you gonna be frightened out next time. That drives you crazy. You get so tense you forget to breathe. It's gripping and delightfully crafted. James Wan explores everything he can to twist a super known genre and manages to give it a fresh view.
And this time, the movie has an excellent crescendo (like Insidious) but flaws a little at the end. I think it could have been a little longer and explore a little more on the grand finale. I didn't buy so much the end of the movie. Bethsheba was a badass old witch. But I won't be so harsh on the ending: I jumped and scared and got what I wanted to see: Mr. Wan did it again (in that 70's style).
Cheers from Argentina.