Storyline
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Directors
Cast
Franka Potente, Vera Farmiga, Robin Atkin Downes, Simon McBurney, Bonnie Aarons, Patrick Wilson, Joseph Bishara, Simon Delaney, Abhi Sinha, Frances O'Connor, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Steve Coulter, Madison Wolfe, Sterling Jerins, Shannon Kook, Bob Adrian, Nancy DeMars, Javier Botet, Lauren Esposito, Benjamin Haigh, Patrick McAuley, Chris Royds, Daniel Wolfe, Annie Young, Elliot Joseph, Cory English, Emily Tasker, Kate Cook, Thomas Harrison, Jennifer Collins
Trailer
Reviews
80
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.
75
This sequel might lack the delightful jolts of its predecessor, but it nonetheless maintains a slow boil of terror that’s consistently unnerving.
70
Wan has a gift that most slam-bang horror directors today do not: a sense of the audience — of their rhythm and pulse, of how to manipulate a moment so that he’s practically controlling your breathing.
70
Lacking some of the simplicity and elegance of the first instalment, The Conjuring 2 is nonetheless a smoothly efficient horror movie, building to a powerhouse finale rooted in our emotional connection to the film’s well-drawn main characters.
67
There are some solid scares (Wan is too gifted in the dark art of gotcha manipulation to not make you leap a few times), but there’s nothing on par with the first film’s brilliant hide-and-clap scene with Lili Taylor. If there’s going to be a Conjuring 3—and this movie is just decent enough to suggest there will be—our heroes should be a little choosier about which case they dust off next.
