Conjuring 2 - A worthy sequel. 👻😻

🎭 Genre - Horror

Runtime - 2 hr 17 mins

Went in with high expectations, and this thing, didn't disappoint me. ❤

📜Plot - The film opens with the Warrens investigating the famous Amityville case, during the course of which Lorraine first encounters the hellish presence that will haunt her for the next few years. Fearing for his life, she begs her husband to suspend any future paranormal investigations, to which he reluctantly agrees. Until, that is, a priest arrives to give them their next mission: Travel to London and confirm the truthfulness of reports of a demonically charged haunting. Also, known as the Enfield Poltergeist.

First thing's first, Is Conjuring 2 scary?
Like, jump out of your seat, watch through the space between your fingers covering your face scary? The answer to that is YES. 😻

After the incredible Fast and Furious 7, it would have been all too easy for James Wan to stay away from horror, to show that there was more to him than an ability to create scary monsters and super creeps.
(See : Saw, Insidious and Conjuring.)
But the man doesn’t see horror movies as a ghetto from which to escape. Its like homecoming. 😃

Under James Wan's direction, even the most clichéd haunted-house tropes (and this movie is bursting with them) are genuinely creepy, and although the movie isn't overly dependent on them, the ones it does use... Well, they work. 😏
Conjuring 2 taps into the universal childhood fear of the dark, and some of its simplest moments—like a little girl hiding under the covers with a flashlight, bolts on the door, toys moving on their own, are its most effective, paired by skillfully executed sound design and Don Burgess' gloomy cinematography. 👌🏻😸

What's really enjoyable about this movie, is its nostalgic recreation of 70s England. Such beauty ! 😍

There are some moments, that make you go "Aww". 🤗

That being said, there are also some truly funny moments, like a shot of the Hodgson family running from their haunted house. After a particularly intense bout of a psychokinetic activity that riffs on some smartasses' favorite retort,
"Why don't they just move?"
(And, for the record, they don't move because it's public housing, and the local council, which is naturally quite skeptical of the whole "ghost" thingy being a hoax, has to approve the relocation.) So relax, bro. 😒😝

Also, there is an overuse of CGI in certain places, which i personally found distracting. 😟

SOME moments definitely caused me to feel incredibly anxious, and I frequently felt the need to push against the seat to get as far away from the screen as possible. 🤐

Very few modern horror filmmakers can time a scary scene as effectively as Wan, and he delivers here, his constantly roving camera finding all kinds of nooks and crannies in which evil can lurk. 🤓

The standout moment, though, comes when Wan bolts his camera to the floor and lets a conversation between Wilson’s Ed and the demon, which calls itself Bill Wilkins, play out in a single shot. 👏🏻❣

As the events unfold, the movie gets a lil dull and drab, maybe because of the runtime. 😪

Talking of the performances,

💨Wilson and Fermiga are excellent together.
I am glad this time Wilson has been given a role equivalent to his partner.
Their relationship is the movie’s emotional anchor, and proves that horror films can be sweet, surprising, and even charming.
Even the ones with demonic nuns. *wink*

💨 Madison Wolfe as Janet,  the possesed 11 year old, gives an excellent and solid performance.

💨 Frances O'Connor nails it as the distressed single mother of four.

💨 Simon McBurney as Maurice Grosse, is sweet and justifies the character well.

💨 Bonnie Aarons whom we see again as the demonic nun, is super scary, even in her paintings. 😂

😍 All in all, i wouldn't say this is better than the first one, buh yeah it was at par with it. 😍
A worthy follow up to Conjuring. ❤
You gotta go see this one ! 🍿🍔

Rating - 💀💀💀💀

Scarometer - 60% 👻

✍ ♠ PRIZMI TRIPATHI ♠