Sometimes I often wonder why I put myself through the torture of scary movies, it comes to the point where the sleepless nights and working up my anxiety and paranoia isn't worth it at the end of the day...
But having said that, The Conjuring 2, whilst scaring me, allowed me to have somewhat relaxed nights.
But then again having said that, I did watch it from behind my hands being clasped tight to my face.
Basically it's a good film, to the point where it's more entertaining in other ways rather than scaring the life out of you. The fact that there's humour injected into it makes it confusing as to what type of horror this actually is. Especially concerning the first movie being one of the most unnerving horror films I have watched in my life.
I feel that the let down could probably be down to the fact that the sequel is set in England. So in turn there pursues the ideal of British comedy coming in characters being awkward and so on.
So it's an odd mixture at times, but yet still fun to watch.
However I will say that it's long for a horror film. And the whole idea of an old man haunting a family isn't plausible. Which is the right way of thinking, because it's based on a real story from London where the little girl FAKED ALL OF IT FOR ATTENTION. Like seriously little girl? You going to play around with dark forces. The Enfield Haunting obviously was a load of bull, seeing as the kid put her hand in front of her mouth any time the ghost of Bill Wilkins came through her. And SHE EVEN ADMITTED THAT SHE WAS FAKING. But alas scraped together that she started off faking, but it suddenly got real.
Well yeah, it's based on a true story, and effectively glamorised for Hollywood.
So, a dead Bill Wilkins is haunting a little girl (supposedly), and to be fair James Wan did a good job of putting horrible images in my head. Yet, it's just and old man in the end. Racist old granddad Bill roaming around the house trying to get Songs of Praise on the telly.
Thankfully though, it's not all that and there's darker forces at work... in the style of a demon who genuinely scares me still two days after watching it. As well as that there's some 'Crooked Man' pissing about looking incredibly animated and not scaring anyone at all. That is until you find out that he was not animated at all and is in fact a human contortionist... yikes.
So two main demons, and poor old Bill isn't all to blame in the end, no it's the one who looks suspiciously like Marilyn Manson instead.
In the end there's a one worded answer which saves the day, and I spotted what the word was way at the beginning of the film where the demon comes to visit the Warrens in their home.
GO ME!
So to sum up, there's some quite scary parts in it. But overall it's let down by the England story-line, which we all know was a hoax anyway. And full of characters who look NOTHING like their real life counterparts, it's literally ridiculous. But however the characters are likeable, and then again there's laughs as well as two dogs on screen.
So maybe go see it instead of that horrible Romance portraying non-disabled people as disabled characters.
Even if The Conjuring 2 lacks in excitement occasionally, it's got to be less of a snooze fest than that.
