The best horror films since "The Descent" SPOILERS

Rating: 9/10 (21 July 2013)

This movie was great. There are only three things that need to be said about this movie.
1. It was scary - The suspense was built up beautifully. It began with a nice little teaser showing you how crazy it was going to get and then they brought it down and let it slowly build up to when that crazy bitch jumps off the Narnia cupboard and scared the crap out of me. I don't believe in demons but if I did, I would be sleeping with the light on tonight.
2. The acting and character motivations were all very good - I had no problems with anyone, except the cop. What the heck was he doing there? His entire arc was "Pft, probably just a draft" to "Okay, it wasn't a draft". Geez, could have used his paycheck to feed some starving kids but whatever. The girls were really good. That Patrick guy is good as ever. Lady from that "Psycho" show was okay.
3. The directing was freaking top notch. The cinematography for this film was incredible. In fact, it was so good that when I left the theater I kept using the word "amazeballs" to describe some of the shots. I never use that word. I don't even know what it means. But goddanggit, James Wan knows how to shoot a scene. BOOM, steadicam shot through the house to orientate the viewer and let us know where everything is. BAM, upside down show while looking under the bed to freak the viewer out because who the hell would ever do that but damn, that's what the camera is doing so sit down and enjoy crapping yourself. KAPOWWY! shooting scenes with only a match as a source of light. Who the hell do you think you are!? Barry Lyndon? Neil Armstrong? What the hell am I even talking about anymore? I don't know because this was actually a good horror film.
Nuff said.
I gave it 8 out of 10 because I thought the Warrens were a tad bit cheesy and they filmmakers tried using cheap tricks to get us to sympathize with them instead of actually doing the work like they did with the main family.
Also it got to be a little much at the end when the chair was floating and stuff, i was like, "Come on." Also, did we really need that dog? You made my wife almost cry and I gots to deal with that crap, not you, so stop it. Stop it.
Okay, anyways, go see it. It's scurrrrry.