Day #14
The Conjuring 2
(2016)
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to England to investigate the case of a young girl whose family claims suffers from demonic attentions.
Fright Factor:
3 / 5 Acoustic Guitars
Gore Factor:
2 / 5 Abdominal Thrusts
Should you watch it?
It’s certainly not as good as the original was, but it’s still pretty enjoyable. The problem is that the story just isn’t there. It has a very sequel-y feel to it and seems as if it was primarily made as a vehicle to give fans more Ed & Lorraine and the rest of the story was just an afterthought.
And to their credit, there are a lot of fantastically sweet Ed and Lorraine moments, yet the haunting never really develops as fully or as intriguingly as it should have. Sure, there are a some genuinely creepy scenes, but there are also some overly overt and extremely heavy-handed ones too.
If you liked the first one I think that you’ll enjoy seeing more of the Warrens and their based-on-real-cases adventures. And if you’ve never seen the first one? Well, there’s really nothing in this one that would require you to have and it’s a solid horror movie...
...Just know that the first one was better.
“Ed, this is as close to hell as I ever want to get.”
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