The Conjuring [Movie-2013]

The Conjuring is one of the rare, brilliantly made horror movies. It is not horror per se, that it doesn't leave you with nightmares and disability to walk alone at night, hardly I've seen movies which do that. But, it has quite a lot of jump scares which do surprise and startle you during the movie. Especially the scenes where Carolyn goes into the basement to find out the origin on the clap sounds, and when we find the corpse of the witch is seen hanging from the tree or when she is seen atop the cupboard by the children.

This story, to be noted, is based on true events and is set in the 70s.

There is a prologue, which introduces us to the 'ghost-hunters' Ed and Lorraine Warren [Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga], who have devoted their lives to studying, warding off and sometimes directly battling the forces of evil.

The story is pretty simple with a family moving into a haunted house, and becoming victims of one too many mishaps like dog dying, stoppage of clocks at a particular time, emanation of sounds around the house and physical harm to the residents. After this experience, The Perron family is terrified and thus, ask on to the Warrens for help. Warrens, along with their assistant and a police officer, discover the presence of the soul of a witch who has hung herself to death and caused the death of a lot more people in the area. They eventually perform an exorcism to expunge the soul. This, along with the side-story of Lorraine with her personal problem and the haunting of daughter of the Warren's keep us interested in the movie.

More than the story, the sound effects and special effects keep us glued to the screen. You don't expect brilliant storytelling in a 'horror' movie, so, The Conjuring does not disappoint, with it's adaption of the true story. One of the better horror movies in recent times and definitely the best of 2013. Don't forsee any better horror movies coming out.

I felt the portion of the doll could be eliminated, didn't give much significance in the story.

My rating - 7.4/10