Entertaining, but WAY over done and extremely predictable

Rating: 3/10 (26 July 2013)

The previews for this movie made me think the Conjuring was going to be a creepy, low-on-the-special-effects, ghost movie—and it started that way. But half way through the movie, it splintered off into a thousand different pieces, and ended up being a heavy handed demon movie.
The director pulled out every ghost movie trick in the book. When it finally got to the silly, predictable ending, I found I was rolling my eyes, and I couldn't wait to see the credits.
It was a fun time listening and laughing as the audience screamed at the beginning (I even jumped a couple times)—but even that dies down in the 2nd half of the movie.
Entertaining, the acting was good, the filming and scenery were very good, but the script is predictable and the effects are unoriginal and way overdone.