This movie is not scary as compare to conjuring 1 . but the cinematography, direction, way of presenting, vfx is amazing . They’re ba-aack. Three years after The Conjuring rattled the multiplex with old-school horror, director James Wan ups the ante with an excellent sequel. His focus again is a documented case from the files of the Warrens of Connecticut, the shockingly white-bread demon fighters whose involvement with the so-called Amityville Horror put them on the pop-culture map — and also made them objects of derision. Wan’s expert deployment of genre jolts is no less in evidence this time around, but as he takes his time — perhaps even a bit too much of it — interweaving the Warrens’ story with that of the Hodgsons, in the London borough of Enfield, he crafts a deep dive into dread. The film builds to a symphonic climax of heaven-and-hell emotion.
The returning Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson imbue the roles of Lorraine and Ed Warren with the kind of lived-in nuance that illuminates their recent brilliant work on cable series — Bates Motel and Fargo, respectively, shows that traffic in their own brands of horror. Along with an excellent Madison Wolfe, as the 11-year-old girl who’s tormented by a restless spirit, or perhaps something worse, they lead an ace cast in a terrifically atmospheric plunge into ’70s-vibe melancholy. There’ll be nothing shocking about the feature’s muscle at the box office.
Where the first film found the Warrens in the relative anonymity of their pre-Amityville days, The Conjuring 2 is set a decade later, when the clairvoyant Lorraine has insisted they take a break from case work. It’s not merely an attempt to lay low amid a mounting tide of talk-show scorn; she’s shaken to the core by a vision she had during their Amityville investigation — brought to chilling life in the séance sequence that opens the movie. But when the Catholic Church requests their assessment of a troublingly intractable situation in England, they pack their Bible and go.
The screenplay, credited to Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes, James Wan and David Leslie Johnson, structures its based-on-true-events drama as a tale of two households in distress, bringing them together after a somewhat distended hour. For single mother Peggy Hodgson(Frances O’Connor) and her four children, life has turned into a constant state of emergency, especially for Janet(Wolfe), who’s sleepless from being tossed-about, levitated and frequently possessed by an angry entity who claims he wants his home back.