goods116 Review of The Conjuring

The Conjuring (2013)

Basic haunted house story, NOTHING new at all

[6/10 · 21 November 2013]

I give it a 6 out of 10 as it is a well executed film and fine and watchable, but nothing more. If you have seen lots of horror movies, you will immediately see this is the same old stuff, there is truly NOTHING new here. Family moves into house, slowly notices strange things like the typical doors moving, flashes of a ghost, kids seeing things that adults don't, kids yelling in middle of night and parents run in, go to the local "ghost hunter," ghost hunter comes and senses the evil presence, evil presence escalates attacks/possession, desperate attempts to remove evil presence, conclusion. Sound familiar? Movies like Insidious, The Possession, Mama, and Sinister are basically the EXACT same movie more or less. People who rate this a 7.6 have simply not seen enough movies to realize how hackneyed and dull this plot is.