![]() But while they're both convincing in spiritual warrior mode, Wan's decision to play up the romance between the two doesn't quite work. Both Farmiga and Wilson are given their chance to shine in spooky set pieces-Farmiga early on in the film, Wilson later. Until, that is, a priest arrives to give them their next mission: Travel to London and confirm the veracity of reports of a demonically tinged haunting. ![]() Fearing for his life, she begs her husband to suspend any future paranormal investigations, to which he reluctantly agrees. The film opens with the Warrens investigating the famous Amityville case, during the course of which Lorraine first encounters the hellish presence that will haunt her for the next few years. and demon hunters Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) its holy roller super-agents. With this installment, the Conjuring movies may have overtaken The Exorcist as the most Christian of horror franchises, taking place in a universe where the Catholic Church is the spiritual S.H.I.E.L.D. Or call it what the movie very explicitly calls it: The Devil. Call it a collective delusion, or a desperate cry for attention from a disturbed child. And as malevolent spirits often do, it picked on one of the children in particular, 11-year-old Janet Hodgson (Madison Wolfe). ![]() The main plot of the film revolves around a real-life incident known as the Enfield Poltergeist, an extremely well-documented case of a supposed ghost who terrorized the Hodgson family of North London from 1977 to 1979 and was apparently a fan of the classics: knocking on walls, shaking beds, throwing furniture, and even the occasional haunted kid's toy. Speaking of tropes, that's where the "based on a true story" bit comes in. On a lizard-brain level, The Conjuring 2 taps into the universal childhood fear of the dark, and some of its simplest moments-like a little girl hiding under the covers with a flashlight-are its most effective, bolstered by skillfully executed sound design and Don Burgess' gloomy cinematography. ![]() Media Info General Format : Matroska Format version : Version 4 File size : 2.47 GiB Duration : 1 h 51 min Overall bit rate : 3 162 kb/s Movie name : The Conjuring (2013) 1080p Bluray x264 Dual Audio Hindi English AC3 - MeGUiL Encoded date : UTC 18:12:20 Writing application : mkvmerge v7.7.0 ('Six Voices') 64bit built on 23:39:33 Writing library : libebml v1.3.1 + libmatroska v1.4.2 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 1 h 51 min Bit rate : 2 500 kb/s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 798 pixels Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.068 Stream size : 1.95 GiB (79%) Title : The Conjuring (2013) 1080p Bluray x264 Dual Audio Hindi English AC3 - MeGUiL Writing library : x264 core 157 r2935 545de2f Default : Yes Forced : No Color range : Limited Color primaries : BT.709 Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.709 Audio #1 ID : 2 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 1 h 51 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 224 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Delay relative to video : 1 s 10 ms Stream size : 179 MiB (7%) Title : AC3 224 kbps 2.0 - MeGUiL Language : Hindi Service kind : Complete Main Default : Yes Forced : No Audio #2 ID : 3 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 1 h 51 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 448 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Delay relative to video : -5 ms Stream size : 359 MiB (14%) Title : AC3 448 kbps 5.1 - MeGUiL Language : English Service kind : Complete Main Default : No Forced : No Menu 00:00:00.000 : :Chapter 1 00:08:53.158 : :Chapter 2 00:19:26.832 : :Chapter 3 00:29:16.004 : :Chapter 4 00:40:50.239 : :Chapter 5 00:51:06.855 : :Chapter 6 00:59:55.634 : :Chapter 7 01:10:37.233 : :Chapter 8 01:21:03.192 : :Chapter 9 01:28:59.543 : :Chapter 10 01:38:10.885 : :Chapter 11 01:46:08.First, the all-important question: Is The Conjuring 2 scary? Like, jump out of your seat, watch through your outstretched fingers scary? The answer to that is "yes." Under James Wan's direction, even the most clichéd haunted-house tropes (and this movie is bursting with them) are genuinely creepy, and although the movie isn't overly reliant on jump scares, the ones it does use-well, they work. ![]()
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