The Conjuring 2 is Terrific

By McKenna Wierman, NDG Special Contributor

I am a huge horror movie fan. If it’s scary and has at least a decent (not over-the-top gory) plot line, I’m game to watch just about anything. Most of the time I’m pretty tough about it, too. I’m a big girl, I know better than to be afraid of the dark. I enjoy the thrill of horror movies, I like seeing all the scary special effects, the ghouls, ghosts and monsters.

That being said, “The Conjuring 2” was so scary I thought I was going to die.

I can’t remember the last time I put my hands over my eyes during the build up to a jump-scare, let alone screamed in a movie theater. I’m actually pretty ashamed of how much this movie terrified me, but it’s been a good week since I saw it in theaters and I still get anxious walking around my house in the dark.

The story is based off the real-life story of a family in Enfiled, a borough in London, who in the late 1970s, who claimed to have experienced paranormal activity and phenomena brought about by a poltergeist. It was one of the most documented hauntings in history, though many believe it to be nothing but a hoax.

But hoax or no hoax, the story the “Conjuring 2” is far more sinister than whatever true-life events may or may not have transpired in Enfield.

In the movie, after a young girl named Janet Hodgson and her family have been subjected to the terrors of an evil presence (to put it lightly) in their home for months, paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) come to London to try and determine what exactly is happening to the Hodgson family. However, all is not as it seems when it becomes clear Janet is not the only one being threatened by a demonic force.

Watching this movie was like being on a never ending roller-coaster of terror and fright. Sure, there were corny special effects and way too predictable jump-scares, -not to mention so many “Don’t Go In There!” moments I almost exploded- but for a horror movie, this was good. Oscar worthy? No, of course not. Date night? Yes, please!

So what if maybe Ed and Lorraine’s ‘perfect ghost-hunter couple love’ gets a little old after, like, four seconds, or if the ending is so predictable it’s literally given away in earlier scenes, plain as day? “The Conjuring 2” still scared the living daylights out of me, and I’m an adult. Take your friends, take your date, take your parents–just get to this movie and have a terrific time.