A textbook case of how NOT to direct a film

Rating: 10/10 (15 May 2016)

Cinema has gotten worst year after year, decades after decades. We now live in a time where all films are pretty much on the same level: terrible and replicas of movies done before.
Someone insisted I watch The Conjuring with them, telling me how good it was.
The #1 issue is the incompetence of James Wan. Whoever he is, it is obvious he is unable to create a story in visual terms. The camera is CONSISTENTLY in the wrong spot or moving for no valid reason. If a character is looking under a bad or up a flight of stairs, to film this character FROM that place tells us there's nothing to be afraid of there since the camera is standing in that very same place. This ultra basic psychological technique which has been adhered to since Hitchcock is broken pretty much every chance this inept director gets.
There is no suspense or genuine scare. You jump from loud noise, cliché moving doll crap and the annoying camera-work keeps getting in the way of the mood they are trying to achieve. Pitiful.