You know a movie is incredibly fucking terrifying when everyone in the theatre is dead silent. Nobody is on their cell-phone. You can't even hear the munching of popcorn. Finally it reaches a point where several audience members begin to break out in awkward laughter--not because something in the film is cheesy, funny, or stupid, it is because they have realized that a movie has made them reach the point of complete terror and they are laughing to let their body release some of that tension. It's around this point that everyone in the theatre loses their minds in response to something amazing happening on screen--the audience has reached their breaking point.

The Conjuring is that movie, and there are…

Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
Metacritic Metascore: 68
IMDB: 7.5

Release Date: 19 July 2013
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Budget: $20M
Worldwide Gross: $319.5M
Total Film Awards: 15

Ed Warren: "The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow."

SYNOPSIS: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.

If something isn't scary to someone – someone who earnestly believes that of course – then a fright flick has failed at its core intent. Then we have something like James Wan's The Conjuring, an artful, confident throwback that succeeds in maintaining a high tensile level of pressure on our senses,…

84/100

Director James Wan isn't interested in subverting horror tropes or building a scary movie as a homage to the past of the genre; he commits to utter sincerity instead. Through the geography of all the locations and a masterful sense of place and presence, Wan deploys tricks and scares, sounds and images which are completely ordinary. But they still happen to scare us. Why? One word: sincerity. He invests in the family, he forms the Warrens as flawed but kind individuals, and he continues to scare the hell out of us without one winking eye. What was old is new again thanks to Wan's fluid, expansive camera: a roaming spirit in and of itself. It may be an ordinary…

This movie means a lot to me for quite a few reasons... So, here we are... five years after this movie came out—and five years ago I hit rock bottom... homeless, deep in addiction, and living park to park traveling around the state. I’d play songs for money with some fellow down and outer hobo friends during the day, busking, they call it, and by night we’d make enough for a pack of smokes and some food for our clique (yeah, cliques exist even in homeless culture you bougie bastards), spending the remainder of the night passing around a collective bottle of cheapo clan mcgregor whiskey while talking about all the wonderful things we’d do once we were ‘back on…

The Conjuring is the definition of a horror film done right. It's creepy, intense, scary, and entertaining. The atmosphere was simply amazing. There were no cheap bullcrap scares. Every scare was legitimate; and that's why I loved this movie. I'd have to say this is the best horror film I've seen in the year 2000 or later. I can't give James Wan enough credit because this was SO well made. Major props sir, I salute you.

Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson were outstanding in their roles. They were believable and sold their performances, without going overboard. I also thought the mother, Lily Taylor did great as well. The father Ron Livingston was the weakest of the "main characters", but nonetheless…

James Wan's "The Conjuring" is an expertly designed, crafted, and executed horror film. With its ability to both shake and get under the skin of its audience, the film is masterfully effective and a welcome addition to the genre.

A traditional haunted house story with contemporary flourishes, the films follows a married team of paranormal investigators as they look into a house with a secret. Thanks to its rich production design, the film is rife with 1970s period details and textures. Wan's camera maneuvers over a drained color palette that both sells the era and adds a cold bit of atmosphere.

While story details are best left unspoiled, Wan is remarkable in his ability to ramp up the tension in…

As enjoyable as it is, The Conjuring is not the saviour of the modern horror genre, but it definitely is a step in the right direction.

Let me just start by saying that I don't believe in God, the Devil, demons, ghosts and whatnot, so whenever a horror film starts with 'Based on a true story' I am skeptical from the get go. When a horror film about demons and exorcisms claims that, it is at a huge disadvantage with me. The frustrating thing about The Conjuring is that I think it would have been the better film if it hadn't tried to convince us that it was real in the beginning and the end. Even more so because the…