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This is a movie I will rent & watch with all the lights on in broad daylight.
Insane on how this flick is true, or some parts are true...
You really believe that?
The Conjuring 7/19/2013 body is not ready
You really believe that?
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That nice girl wants to go check it out with me.
My body is ready
My body is ready
This is a movie I will rent & watch with all the lights on in broad daylight.
Insane on how this flick is true, or some parts are true...
You really believe that?
There are pics and things in the movie that show the real people. Obviously they Hollywood it up, if you look at Annabelle, you'll see how much they changed it to make it more "scary" but the events themselves were at least partially true. The characters that go to help have multiple books out there as well as tons of stories/articles written on them over the years, including Amityville. (briefly mentioned in the first movie, tho with changed names)
They did a damn good job with this movie man. Certainly added some things to it, no doubt, but the basic "true" storyline of it all is pretty freaking brutal. (and wasn't even used in the movie)
No sir, I assure you, there is no corn. This movie is legit, and is going to do very well with word of mouth. (much like me talkin to you now)Early numbers I have seen say 90% approvals and such. Critics are enjoying it, the audience I was with was happy as hell, this is going to suprise a lot of folks.
This isn't Blair Witch with tons of hype and no delivery, this is Blair Witch with no hype and fully delivered. And I swear on it, 24 hours ago I didn't even want to see this movie. I got some free passes, my wife was begging to see it, so I went. I was blown away.
New Line is already prepping for a possible sequel and is looking into a possible franchise based off the characters from this movie, the Warrens. The Husband and Wife who worked tons of cases including this one, and the Amityville one, Haunting in Connecticut is loosely based on some of their findings, etc.
THAT would be freaking fantastic. Doing multiple films about their encounters over all those years.
THAT would be freaking fantastic. Doing multiple films about their encounters over all those years.
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might have to check this out 
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welp i thursday night i will be watching
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Read somewhere this happened in Rhode Island
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Reviews look good, Taking the old lady Saturday
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IGN REVIEW
→ JULY 18, 2013 If you were to read a synopsis for The Conjuring, you would probably think the film just sounded overly familiar and quite stale. A family dealing with a haunted house. Based on a true story. Paranormal investigators who come to help. But thanks to some masterful direction by James Wan (Saw, Insidious, Dead Silence) and a great cast, The Conjuring stands out from the poltergeist pack.
In the 1970’s Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) made a name for themselves as paranormal investigators. He was a demonologist, she was a clairvoyant, and together
ALICIA MALONE SAYS
Watch This If You Liked:
InsidiousThe Amityville Horror (1979)Sinister they gave lectures and visited homes with the view to help people get rid of any darkness lurking about. Despite being famous for the case that The Amityville Horror is based on, it’s the Perron family events shown in The Conjuring that shook them up the most.
After setting up the Warrens and what they do, the film introduces us to Carolyn and Roger Perron (Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston) and their five daughters, who have just moved to a beautiful old lake house in Rhode Island. Of course, they soon discover they are not alone, experiencing some pretty terrifying, unexplainable happenings, which leads Carolyn to beg the Warrens to come and help them.
As the paranormal events escalate the five little actresses playing the girls are required to tap into some intense emotions. They do a remarkable job. As does Lili Taylor, who also has a tough task, particularly in the third act, plus Vera Farmiga adds a depth and warmth to her clairvoyant character. That secondary plot line of the Warrens offers a tiny bit of respite from the tense action, but unlike many horror films which start slow and then build, the scares are quite relentless from start to finish. Expect a sleepless night if you are easily scared.
James Wan has become a master of the modern horror flick; distancing himself from the torture porn trend he began with Saw, focusing instead on using old-school horror tricks to their best advantage. We may have seen these scare set pieces before (e.g. the possessed doll, the dark cellar, the crows flying into the house) and we know how music manipulates us to create jumps, but Wan pulls these off in such a way that the film feels both fresh and terrifying.
He’s achieved that, in part, by paying homage to the type of horror films he loves from the 1970s. Most of the effects in The Conjuring were created practically on set, rather than through a computer, which makes them feel all the more real. The cinematography by Frank Leonetti is simple and beautiful, and together with Wan, has created some creepy images, which may become iconic and possibly will be lampooned by the Wayans brothers at some point.
A lot more is suggested rather than shown in The Conjuring, proving the old theory that what you imagine can be scarier that what you see. There’s almost none of the gore or nudity that’s usually seen in horror flicks, which makes the R rating given to The Conjuring a little surprising.
Hopefully the rating won’t keep audiences away, because this is the type of film you should see in a cinema packed with people. Even if you’re not a fan of being scared, there is something still fun about seeing an audience all jumping at the same time, then laughing at themselves for getting sucked in. It’s a rare shared experience in this age of watching movies by yourself, huddled over a phone or computer screen.
gave it a score of 8.0
Im taking my girl tonight to see it
→ JULY 18, 2013 If you were to read a synopsis for The Conjuring, you would probably think the film just sounded overly familiar and quite stale. A family dealing with a haunted house. Based on a true story. Paranormal investigators who come to help. But thanks to some masterful direction by James Wan (Saw, Insidious, Dead Silence) and a great cast, The Conjuring stands out from the poltergeist pack.
In the 1970’s Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) made a name for themselves as paranormal investigators. He was a demonologist, she was a clairvoyant, and together
ALICIA MALONE SAYS
Watch This If You Liked:
InsidiousThe Amityville Horror (1979)Sinister they gave lectures and visited homes with the view to help people get rid of any darkness lurking about. Despite being famous for the case that The Amityville Horror is based on, it’s the Perron family events shown in The Conjuring that shook them up the most.
After setting up the Warrens and what they do, the film introduces us to Carolyn and Roger Perron (Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston) and their five daughters, who have just moved to a beautiful old lake house in Rhode Island. Of course, they soon discover they are not alone, experiencing some pretty terrifying, unexplainable happenings, which leads Carolyn to beg the Warrens to come and help them.
As the paranormal events escalate the five little actresses playing the girls are required to tap into some intense emotions. They do a remarkable job. As does Lili Taylor, who also has a tough task, particularly in the third act, plus Vera Farmiga adds a depth and warmth to her clairvoyant character. That secondary plot line of the Warrens offers a tiny bit of respite from the tense action, but unlike many horror films which start slow and then build, the scares are quite relentless from start to finish. Expect a sleepless night if you are easily scared.
James Wan has become a master of the modern horror flick; distancing himself from the torture porn trend he began with Saw, focusing instead on using old-school horror tricks to their best advantage. We may have seen these scare set pieces before (e.g. the possessed doll, the dark cellar, the crows flying into the house) and we know how music manipulates us to create jumps, but Wan pulls these off in such a way that the film feels both fresh and terrifying.
He’s achieved that, in part, by paying homage to the type of horror films he loves from the 1970s. Most of the effects in The Conjuring were created practically on set, rather than through a computer, which makes them feel all the more real. The cinematography by Frank Leonetti is simple and beautiful, and together with Wan, has created some creepy images, which may become iconic and possibly will be lampooned by the Wayans brothers at some point.
A lot more is suggested rather than shown in The Conjuring, proving the old theory that what you imagine can be scarier that what you see. There’s almost none of the gore or nudity that’s usually seen in horror flicks, which makes the R rating given to The Conjuring a little surprising.
Hopefully the rating won’t keep audiences away, because this is the type of film you should see in a cinema packed with people. Even if you’re not a fan of being scared, there is something still fun about seeing an audience all jumping at the same time, then laughing at themselves for getting sucked in. It’s a rare shared experience in this age of watching movies by yourself, huddled over a phone or computer screen.
gave it a score of 8.0
Im taking my girl tonight to see it
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Man I'm avoiding this thread like the plague when this movie drops until I see it. made that mistake last time and knew when the surprise parts were.
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Thanks for the review. For you or anyone that has seen this movie would you say anything in it or about it is satanic?? I asked because the girl I want to take to see it is very spiritual/religious so I don't want to take her to anything that is over the edge for her.Saw it last night. (Screener)
UN-REAL.
LOVED this movie. It is absolutely one of the best horror films I have ever seen in my life. I NEVER see horror films that live up to the hype, or give me a story solid enough to have any sort of belief in, it's always some idiot all by him/herself walkin into a dungeon, yeah. Get some frickin backup you idiots.
This movie is not that. Every single detail is fleshed out, they have backup, proof, backstory, everything that makes you say, ****, this could happen. (was based loosely off a true story) It was brilliantly done.
My theatre jumped a good 7-8 times, white ******* screaming, the whole nine.
I didn't even want to see this movie, my wife did, so I went with her cuz I got the screener passes, and we both loved every second, from the open to the final credits. Def check this one out people.
9.5/10
Told ya'll.
Joint was jumpin when I went.
Hope you and your girl like it. Hope you all do. Best horror movie I seen in 20+ years if not more.
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Thank you very much for that champ, I greatly appreciate it!! I'll tell her what you said and we will go from there. The trailer and reviews look great so hopefully we will go see it.
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Told ya'll.
Joint was jumpin when I went.
Hope you and your girl like it. Hope you all do. Best horror movie I seen in 20+ years if not more.
u gotta be throwin extra on that on fam
20+ years?????????
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A quote from the producer:
im seeing it for sure and I hate horror movies due to it just being super fake.
im seeing it for sure and I hate horror movies due to it just being super fake.
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by horror u mean scary right???
cause people consider the 6th sense and The Descent to be horror
u didnt like sinister or insidious????
i thought those where cleverly done
See I would view 6th Sense as suspence more than horror.
Like I said with Scream, that's a lot different tone than just plain "Horror"
To me horror goes back to the 70's-80's fright fests. Actual movies trying to scare you. I don't think I put 6th Sense among that, ya know?
Insidious, eh.
I haven't seen Sinister, so I can't say on that one.
All the remakes that have been done have been interesting, decent takes, etc, but nothing that captivated me. I was just watchin the Chainsaw Massacre remake last night, outside of drooling whenever Biel was on screen, that movie was a decent attempt at it, but I wouldn't budge and inch watching it in the theatre for the first time. Same ol ****.
Freddy remake, eh, nice attempt, but yeah.
Jason 1-43, ok, whatever. Nothing that truly scares me, too campy. (one of the most awesome scenes in movie history tho when he takes the sleeping bag and bats it up against a tree. Truly special cinematic moment right there. )
I'm sure there are a few I'm forgetting, but to me, THIS movie, The Conjuring, is a mid 70's horror movie, done in 2013. It's that good. It's that classic. It has the FEEL of the 70's to it. Just like Amityville, or Halloween, OG Texas Chainsaw. It belongs in that group. It exceeds any of the recent horror films by miles and miles.
I think this one is going to do real numbers when word of mouth starts dropping. At least I hope so. I hope everyone enjoys it, cuz it's likely going to be a while before we get another horror film this good.
Like I said with Scream, that's a lot different tone than just plain "Horror"
To me horror goes back to the 70's-80's fright fests. Actual movies trying to scare you. I don't think I put 6th Sense among that, ya know?
Insidious, eh.
I haven't seen Sinister, so I can't say on that one.
All the remakes that have been done have been interesting, decent takes, etc, but nothing that captivated me. I was just watchin the Chainsaw Massacre remake last night, outside of drooling whenever Biel was on screen, that movie was a decent attempt at it, but I wouldn't budge and inch watching it in the theatre for the first time. Same ol ****.
Freddy remake, eh, nice attempt, but yeah.
Jason 1-43, ok, whatever. Nothing that truly scares me, too campy. (one of the most awesome scenes in movie history tho when he takes the sleeping bag and bats it up against a tree. Truly special cinematic moment right there.
) I'm sure there are a few I'm forgetting, but to me, THIS movie, The Conjuring, is a mid 70's horror movie, done in 2013. It's that good. It's that classic. It has the FEEL of the 70's to it. Just like Amityville, or Halloween, OG Texas Chainsaw. It belongs in that group. It exceeds any of the recent horror films by miles and miles.
I think this one is going to do real numbers when word of mouth starts dropping. At least I hope so. I hope everyone enjoys it, cuz it's likely going to be a while before we get another horror film this good.
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Insidious wasn't scary at all tbh, Evil Dead was legit, I've got my hopes up for this one, looks great
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evil dead was just gory
not a bad movie but wasnt scary just really gory
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If this sucks I will never listen to another NT review AGAIN.
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i like the camron one better
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