Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016) by Player2-Water — 25 Nov 2018

E-Value: 8.

Acting: 8.

Plot: 7 The third instalment in The Conjuring Universe and sequel to 2013’s The Conjuring features the return of famous paranormal investigators and demonologists, Ed and Lorraine Warren, and their new case took them toE-Value: 8.

Acting: 8.

Plot: 7.

The third instalment in The Conjuring Universe and sequel to 2013’s The Conjuring features the return of famous paranormal investigators and demonologists, Ed and Lorraine Warren, and their new case took them to Enfield, London in England to investigate another infamous paranormal case, The Enfield Poltergeist, despite the Warrens does not heavily involved in this case in real life.

In the year of 1976, Ed and Lorraine Warren (Wilson and Farmiga) receive media attention after their investigation into the Amityville Horror case, which is one of the infamous paranormal cases the Warrens have investigated in real life. One year later, another similar incident which have been compared to Amityville, occurs in Enfield when the Hodgson family experience strange occurrences in their home.

After all the family members of the Hodgson witnessed the paranormal events and then being interviewed by Maurice Grosse (McBurney) along with the local media, the Warrens are brought into the case to investigate whether the haunting is real or hoax. Meanwhile, Lorraine has an encounter with a mysterious demonic nun figure which has been haunting her and is fear for Ed’s life after having a premonition of his death for years.

Like its predecessor, The Conjuring 2 is a very scary movie which scares me many times and it is definitely better than 2014’s Annabelle. The jump scares are very well utilised when you let your guard down. I was lucky enough not to have heart attack during those jump scares. The make-up of the demonic nun figure is very scary and it is not even done in a CGI. This method saved the crews some money on investing in CGI.

The performance of Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are once again amazing and impressive and they put much more efforts than in the previous movie. Madison Wolfe’s acting was pretty good as well especially when she used British accent for her character she played despite being an American which actually surprised me. She managed to use that accent throughout the movie without accidentally slipping out her natural American accent at any point in the movie.

Last but not least, all praises go to James Wan once again for his direction in making this movie a good and scary horror movie. If there is another future instalment for this franchise, I look forward to it.