ANNABLAH!
Half star
Mini Review:
The Conjuring was a great scarefest. And if this is the prequel, then it's a good thing we did not see it first.
Main Review:
Scary films are meant to do one thing. Scare us.
And if you attempt to deafen us by loud creaky apartment doors that sound more like giant castle doors, or sudden loud sounds to jolt us from our seats, you are not achieving your objective. It is, as they say, on social media '#FAIL'
The story is pathetically unoriginal: Bad people trying to summon demons. Why are the bad people wanting to do this? The policeman in the move gives us an answer: because bad people do bad things.
Don't even ask why they choose this family to 'haunt'. 'I like your doll' is not adequate explanation.
Everything that happens in the movie, who dies, is so predictable you don't even yawn at it in boredom.
But there is one scene that jolted me out of my skin. And the half star is for that basement appearance of the demon. Now that was as scary as the clapping scene in The Conjuring. It stays with you.
The rest of it... One has seen better.
(the headline is in all caps to remind you how the whole movie was: LOUD)
Half star
Mini Review:
The Conjuring was a great scarefest. And if this is the prequel, then it's a good thing we did not see it first.
Main Review:
Scary films are meant to do one thing. Scare us.
And if you attempt to deafen us by loud creaky apartment doors that sound more like giant castle doors, or sudden loud sounds to jolt us from our seats, you are not achieving your objective. It is, as they say, on social media '#FAIL'
The story is pathetically unoriginal: Bad people trying to summon demons. Why are the bad people wanting to do this? The policeman in the move gives us an answer: because bad people do bad things.
Don't even ask why they choose this family to 'haunt'. 'I like your doll' is not adequate explanation.
Everything that happens in the movie, who dies, is so predictable you don't even yawn at it in boredom.
But there is one scene that jolted me out of my skin. And the half star is for that basement appearance of the demon. Now that was as scary as the clapping scene in The Conjuring. It stays with you.
The rest of it... One has seen better.
(the headline is in all caps to remind you how the whole movie was: LOUD)
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