I don't buy it

Rating: 6/10 (23 September 2013)

"Ghost hunters" like the Ed Warren character in THE CONJURING are laughing all the way to the bank, just as fortune tellers, Tarot card readers, crystal ball gazers, palm readers, noggin' bump interpreters, astrologers, tea leave soothsayers, pick-up stick predictors, and those people from thousands of years ago who used to "sacrifice" animals and study their guts to tell the generals who would win the next day's battle in Bible and Roman times. Though it can be argued that some of the first listed ways of parting fools from their gold are less messy and more humane than pawing through a freshly slaughtered goat's entrails, it does not change the fact that the Holy Bible itself puts the death penalty on most of what the hypocritical Ed Warren claims to be able to do (check out Seth 16:19 in particular). The proof in the pudding that Warren doesn't believe a whit in his cockamamie doings (so long as he collects his royalties from his books and movies) is his "trophy room" pictured in THE CONJURING. Child protective services would have snatched his daughter away long ago if he really kept a killer Chuckie doll, a Golem box, and a used Linda Blair crucifix right next to her bedroom, as depicted here, and rightly so!