Reviews for this film from our members:
- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- [New – 2/6/14] | Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: The Conjuring does not succeed on fear alone. This is feel-good, do-good horror, a slight but significant twist that distinguishes the film.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: What more you could expect or want from a ghost story: it creeps, it crawls, it sneaks up on you and goes ‘boo!’, all without missing a beat or running out of steam.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: Just as “Insidious” used a powerful soundtrack and quick cuts to startling ghosts, “The Conjuring” uses light and shadow to create a creepy atmosphere.
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Lo que casi nunca ocurre y uno siempre espera: una buena película de terror
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a well made horror film that can’t be taken seriously. Oddly, while it’s a much better effort than the director’s last, “Insidious” was more genuinely eerie.
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: Wan’s refusal to shape the movie using any measure of pretension ultimately lends THE CONJURING authenticity.
- Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: La clave de que esta película dé tanto miedo y tenga tanto éxito es que está basada en unos hechos reales, lo que hace que a la gente le llegue más. Pero por ello, Wan se ha controlado demasiado, y la película no le ha quedado tan divertida como “Insidious” y sí más previsible.
- M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
- Excerpt: The story of the Perron family’s frightening ordeal with increasingly bloodcurdling paranormal activity in their newly purchased farmhouse is a sensational spectacle of old-school frights. If Wan fails to ever make anything as wildly entertaining and engaging as this, then this should proudly go down as his horror masterpiece.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: This is an extremely effective, consistently creepy, and occasionally unnerving experience.
- João Marcos Flores @ Cineviews
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Brett Gallman @ www.oh-the-horror.com
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: A horror thriller that’s silly yet scary enough to make you think twice if anyone suggests playing Hide ‘n’ Clap.
- Mark Harris @ About.com
- Dan Kelly @ Danland
- Excerpt: In the tradition of classic horror cinema “The Conjuring” starts slow, builds at a moderate pace before delivering a final act of frantic, nonstop chaos.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: The Conjuring, a classically crafted, ruthlessly spooky, and retro-fashioned fright film that looks and feels like a child of the 1970s, remembers it’s scarier not to always see what’s going bump in the night.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
- Piers Marchant @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Jason McKiernan @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: The Conjuring is a viscerally thrilling piece of cinema, designed purely and solely to evoke spooky scares with an old-fashioned style that, after years of Torture Porn inundation, feels fresh again.
- Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: The season of the witch…
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Don’t let that forgettable title turn you off: following in the footsteps of Insidious (director Wan’s previous film) and Sinister, this is one of the scariest horror films in years.
- Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Se não tivesse abusado no humor, talvez esta história dos anos 70 tivesse causado mais calafrios. No entanto, mesmo assim é ambicioso e consegue levar a narrativa até ao fim sem quebras.
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: “The Conjuring” backs up its creaking floor and slamming door tropes with episodes of all-out terror to send its audience to bed with a worrisome feeling in the pit of their stomachs. Nightmares may follow.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Creepily effective.
- Andrew Wyatt @ Look / Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: Sloppily written and leadenly derivative, Wan’s latest even lacks the fundamental redemptive quality of a good bad horror flick: scariness.
