THE CONJURING

THE CONJURING Review

By Darin Skaggs

     A good horror film is hard to find these days.  With the bloody messes that are what horror has become it is hard to find a quality, scary and interesting story.  James Wan’s new film The Conjuring breaths some fresh air into a wasted genre.  It is scary, fun and like any good horror film, full of dread.

     The Conjuring follows the Perron family.  Lili and Ron have moved into a new home with their five daughters.  The house is in the middle of nowhere.  Pretty soon after entering their new home some unexplainable events start to happen.  After the last straw of terrifying events the Perrons get the help from two married supernatural hunters.  The scares only get crazier from there and the dread only becomes higher.

     Horror films these days cut right to the violence.  This includes the Saw series, which Wan directed the first one.  The first one is just a psychological thriller with some violence, but nothing over the top compared to the rest of the Saw films.  This film takes its time to get to the big scenes but always makes you feel scared from the “What is going to happen?” mentality. 

     The characters in the film are not the normal run of the mill horror film characters.  This is a family you really learn to care about and when the married couple comes in you will want them to make it out alive too.

     It is possible that the film has nothing to say besides “Hey, I’m really scary.”  You can read it as a film about how hard it is to be a family or a mother.  You can read it as a film about messing with the past and not letting it be.  Yet, those are a stretch and it is most likely just a solid horror film.