Man versus film
hi I'm Graham and welcome to man vs. film this is going to be a movie review
for the conjuring 2
The Conjuring 2 is directed by James Wan the man who
brought us Insidious one and two the first Saw, the original Conjuring,
Dead Silence, Fast 7 and Death Sentence
the movie stars Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Francis O'Conner and Madison
Wolfe lorraine and Ed Warren travel to North London to help a single mother
raising four children alone in a house plagued by a malicious spirit
For me The Conjuring was one of the best horror movies ever I feel that it got
everything right, whether it was the sound design,
the direction, the script, the acting, everything just worked together to
create one of the best horror movies in my opinion ever no one died, no one
was brutally murdered no one was viciously hurt yet the film movie had
this consistent foreboding
It was just a constant sense of dread about the full movie. It worked on pure
atmosphere and even when i rewatched it a week ago before seeing The Conjuring 2
I still found it to be a terrifying movie even though I knew where It was going
and what was going to happen
the best thing about The Conjuring 2 was bringing back this spine of the
first one it's got
James Wan is the directors got Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as the
core actors in this one and those were the best aspects of the original
movie James Wan knows how to do these haunted house movie pictures and he
rings every single bit of tension that he possibly can out of every scene
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren add an emotional
core to the movie they are the heart of the piece and it's a couple with that we
like we really emphasise with and we like to see on screen and there
relationship feels real
This movies are about different from the first one in some fact that it has
a split a narrative it's got the family and the London is struggling to deal
with this spirit that is disrupting their lives and then you have the Warrens
America who are traveling around
appearing on TV shows generally to be berated and belittled with the Warrens
being unable to be taken seriously you can really see the frustration appear
in their relationship and how they are struggling to allow people to accept
what's actually happening and that is mixed with this really interesting
opening scene and the amityville now as soon as I saw the windows I knew the house that
this is going to be and I knew the story they were going to tell and I've seen several
movie set with an amityville a story line and it's nice to see them touch on it
have a couple of good scenes towards it and then move away from that it so easily could
have been something like a rehash the things that I've seen before but they tackle
that subject in a new and interesting way the mix of that opening scene and the
fact that the warnings and getting taken seriously really comes into play in the
second half of the movie when they come to England to help this family out and
they start to become doubting Thomas's themselves when you're not sure if this
actually happening or If it's a faked set up we as the viewers know what's really
happening but it's nice to see this couple who so believe in this subject
matter start to doubt themselves seeing this couple become cynical as a nice touch
that didn't expect to see within this movie
Janet is one of the children that lives in this house and becomes the target of
the malevolent spirit
and she's played by my Madison Wolfe and she is fantastic in the movie whether
it's being an innocent child who is really upset but what's going on or
whether it's possessed by a demon that evil smile creeps across her face and just
terrifies you before the gargling voice comes out. It is the Warrens that are the heart of
this picture and it's nice to see that interactions and it's my favourite bit of
the movie is when they're together and these horrifying circumstances but being
as normal as it can be
whether it be a touch or a look it's not always said it's just implied and you
know this relationship is just strong and it's just a year's worth of history
between these two people and is that created to the two actors to be that
that's just appears on screen without having to have it thrown in your face
there's a moment where Patrick Wilson starts to sing an Elvis song and he is singing it
to the family to break that the overbearing
mood that's in the house and to give it a little bit of levity and he's singing the song
to the family but when it gets to the romantic lyrics he's directing it towards
Lorraine Warren and it's may just be a glance the way he looks at her as he sings a line
it's just a terrific moment that you don't really get within most horror movies
the true star of the movie though is James Wan who seems to be getting better
as a horror director and I know he's going to move away from this genre
which is a real shame because he's one of the best working today I thought the
Insidious movies are really good i enjoyed them I thought The Conjuring
absolutely outstanding and this is another really good movie
one of the best things that Wan does is it creates a geography of the house
where everything ties together and you know where everything goes where it
leads to what room leads to what other room and it's a fantastic way of doing this
because he creates these large open spaces whether it's behind or to the side of
the family and you're always watching waiting for something spooky to crawl past the screen
He can take the simplest of scenes and turn it into a
daunting foreshadowing of evil to come
or just make a strange sense of foreboding over that scene
it could be innocent within Itself. He also uses the camera and a strange way
in certain scenes and It would normally seem out of place but when you consider
that it could be the spirit watching them do these things it becomes more
acceptable and It's really nice touch to the movie. Now onto the main question
Is The Conjuring 2 scary?
absolutely there was moments where I just silently went into myself, i clutched
onto the arms of the chair and I was focused on that screen dreading but anticipating
what was to come
my heart was racing, sweat started to appear on my brow, I was just into the movie and I was
hanging on for dear life. The way that Wan manages to drag out these scenes
is unbelievable it just really takes every single bit of tension out of the movie
and throws on to the viewer without being cliched and overbearing without
you want to shout to the screen run you're just drawing into what's
happening and you're terrified for the people of what could happen to them
The Conjuring 2 is a great movie
and if you like the first one you're probably going to love this is well
it has tension and scares by the bucket load as well as a cast of
characters i generally liked and I wanted to see get out of this situation I can't
recommend The Conjuring 2 highly enough it is a great film and it's so rare that
we get really good horrors and I think we should support them when we get
something like this. I thought this was a great movie may not be as good as the
original is still very very good i'm going to get The Conjuring 2 four and a
half stars out of five
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