One of the best I've seen

Rating: 9/10 (6 August 2013)

Well I am a movie fan but I admit that I don't see every one that comes out. I am 59 and I can truthfully say that this is one of the scariest movies that I ever saw. This was in the best tradition of scare movies, not slasher movies. I saw the Exorcist the first time around as well as Poltergeist. As far as I am concerned Poltergeist was a comedy compared to the Conjuring! Regarding the Exorcist, it did have a great story, but a true scary movie, not really sure. To me a true scary movie is a ride thru a Halloween cornfield or a fun house. Now all the interesting stuff in the Exorcist just took place in the child's room. True there was the director tossed down the outside stairs, but everything was shocking but not really unexpected. Scary means unexpected to me. Everything in Megan's room was heard about before, vomiting, head turning, levitation, etc. The other movies in the Conjuring class IMHO, would be the Haunting (original), Psycho and even the Stephen King mini-series Rose Red.