The Conjuring

[darien87]

Watched it last weekend with the wife. Decent little scary movie. One of the better ones to come out in recent years. It seems like with Hollywood trying to make all the scray movies PG13 to get a wider audience they just aren't that scary anymore.

This one was good and creepy with some pretty good sound.

I guess Lili Taylor likes making scary movies since she was also in The Haunting back in the day.

Worth a rental.

 

[macddmac]

I watched it with the wife Saturday night at her request. She loved it, I'm still creeped out!
that paranormal stuff gives me the willys :0
Cheers, Mac

 

[skizzerflake]

I like it too. It's another chapter in the dubiously truthful but definitely scary experiences of Ed and Lorraine Warren, real "ghosthuters" who invented that sort of thing decades ago. I don't know that I believe in their exploits, but I do accept that they do. The movie seemed pretty good. I'm pretty hard-crusted about horror movies but it spooked my wife.

 

[darien87]

Funny thing. I asked my Kenjitsu teacher if he had seen it and he said, "F that man. That stuff is real." Then proceeded to tell me how his house in Missouri was haunted. He showed me pictures of his house where there were all these little balls of light in them just like the ones in the picture of the daughter in the movie when she was sleep walking. Supposedly "entities" show up on film as these balls of light. He also told me about how once he had laid some antique mirrors against a wall and then later he heard banging and then all of the mirrors were on the ground, broken. I asked him if there were 3 mirrors and he said, "yes". Just like in the movie when the Ed character said that the ghosts tended to do things in 3's as an insult to the Holy Trinity.

Pretty freaky.

 

[skizzerflake]

Funny thing. I asked my Kenjitsu teacher if he had seen it and he said, "F that man. That stuff is real." Then proceeded to tell me how his house in Missouri was haunted. He showed me pictures of his house where there were all these little balls of light in them just like the ones in the picture of the daughter in the movie when she was sleep walking. Supposedly "entities" show up on film as these balls of light. He also told me about how once he had laid some antique mirrors against a wall and then later he heard banging and then all of the mirrors were on the ground, broken. I asked him if there were 3 mirrors and he said, "yes". Just like in the movie when the Ed character said that the ghosts tended to do things in 3's as an insult to the Holy Trinity.

Pretty freaky.

I'm still waiting. I've been in several houses that are supposedly seriously haunted and never saw a thing. I'm sorta like the mom in the movie...haunting doesn't happen for me.

 

[j_garcia]

I may have to consider picking this one up. We both really enjoyed it. I love horror movies and have low expectations these days because most are garbage or are trying to come off as smarter than they are. This one was definitely one of the best I've seen in a long time. Very well balanced, properly paced, nothing too unbelievable or over the top; just simple thrill ride fun.

 

[shadyJ]

Saw this one a week ago or so, it was a well-made movie, but the Warrans are charlatans and always have been. It doesn't sway my opinion of the movie much though, a good story is a good story, true or false. Nice use of LFE in this movie too, btw.

 

[Alex2507]

I'm sorta like the mom in the movie...haunting doesn't happen for me.

I know I'm not reading this right. In my view the haunting absolutely happens for the mom.

As far as movies go this is a pretty good one. I liked the way that after doing the typical horror movie stuff they cut to the part of dealing with the situation and establishing credibility for the Warrens. It gave me a chance to stop sh!tting my pants.

In terms of what's real and what's fake I'd like to be left alone in a room with a clairvoyant to ask them if they knew what was about to happen to them.

 

[skizzerflake]

I know I'm not reading this right. In my view the haunting absolutely happens for the mom.

As far as movies go this is a pretty good one. I liked the way that after doing the typical horror movie stuff they cut to the part of dealing with the situation and establishing credibility for the Warrens. It gave me a chance to stop sh!tting my pants.

In terms of what's real and what's fake I'd like to be left alone in a room with a clairvoyant to ask them if they knew what was about to happen to them.

Mea culpa. I was mistaking The Conjuring with the similar Haunting in Connecticut, another case taken on by the Warrens (although the movie substituted a priest), which I saw around the same time. In that one, the mom was not effected. As it turns out, I watched Conjuring again tonight and indeed the mom was nearly dragged off to hell. I thought Conjuring was the better of the two.

One thing I know is that if I ever buy an old house and it has a hangin' tree in the yard, the tree goes, now matter how old it is.

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[Alex2507]

Between the

We're going to send the AH keyboard breathalyzer out to you next.

You'll be able to remove it after your posts start making sense again.

 

[j_garcia]

Ended up buying this one

 

[tyhjaarpa]

Just watched this movie and holy it has some impressive sound track! Well made movie in overall as well and it really keeps you wathing! This movie got some cold shivers around me, I rarely get these while watching a movie.