James Wan’s follow-up puts Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga through the wringer again as their paranormal investigators head to ‘England’s Amityville’.
Finely tuned performances, an almost seamlessly structured story, and an excuse to cower together, means this is one hell of a date movie.
Entertaining, occasionally nerve-juddering and often laughable horror movie, set in north London in the late 1970s.
With plenty of scares per square inch, this is a worthy follow-up to the original.
This clutch of horror cliches, applied to a possessed house in 1970s London, may make you jump while rolling your eyes.
In the end The Conjuring 2 isn’t just set in the 1970s but feels as if it could have been made in the era of The Exorcist or The Omen and that is all the recommendation horror fans will require. Not all sequels are a bad idea.
The director of Saw brings creative technique to a sequel too long in the telling.
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