The Conjuring

More Horror Movie Fun

This may become a series

My absolute favorite movie ever is The Conjuring. My best friend Josh Booth and I have seen The Conjuring eighteen times. This is an absolute fact. We counted. Obviously, this makes me an extremely qualified expert on the movie so you should all listen to me.

The Conjuring is a very different brand of horror from Saw. The Saw series is a hilarious brand of bad. The cinematography is terrible, the acting is worse, and the characters are actually all the same person just with different names. That being said, Saw is great for other reasons discussed previously. The point is, Saw is bloody, not scary, while The Conjuring is scary.

Funnily enough, Saw and The Conjuring were directed by the same person, so it’s strange that they’re so different, but that’s irrelevant. It was just a fun fact.

If you plan on seeing The Conjuring soon, or ever really, maybe refrain from reading further since I actually suck at not spoiling things.

The Conjuring is part of a series, and the series is part of a larger universe that includes movies in the Annabelle series and The Nun. This gives the movies an interesting depth, and as the first in the series, The Conjuring did a pretty good job in setting up the rest of the rest of the movies.

In the first seen of The Conjuring, we have the pleasure of meeting my personal favorite character, Debbie.

Debbie does not have many lines and she is completely irrelevant when it comes to the rest of the movie, but she was still my favorite character. Mostly because her name was Debbie and I thought that was hilarious the first time I watched the movie.

Basically, Debbie was in possession of the Annabelle doll, and we are introduced to her as a way of also introducing Ed and Lorrain Warren, two of the movie’s protagonists.

Ed and Lorrain are like ghost busters, but they’re super religious and also Lorrain is a clairvoyant, so the movie has some fun catholic undertones.

The movie then cuts to a fun family moving into a new house. There are seven people in this family, two parents and their five daughters. They also have a dog. The first time watching The Conjuring Josh and I could not remember the names of the girls so we gave them fake names. I now do not know the actual names of the characters, so I will give you their fake names and that’s just what we are going to call them now.

The dad is called Peter Cronin and the mom is Stephanie Cronin. Sophia is the eldest daughter, then there’s Bella, Claire (named after me because she had short hair), Cecilia and finally, the youngest was called Francesca. If you have seen The Conjuring and you know their actual names, please let me know, it’s kinda embarrassing to have seen the movie 18 times and not know their names.

Also, side note, but Peter Cronin is a truck driver. He is the only source of income for this family. What I would like to know, is how they are able to afford this house. It is in the middle of Rhode Island, it has four bedrooms, is quite large and also has a ton of land to go along with it. It’s also right by a river. So this family has a small mansion right on the water, and they’re paying for it with a truckers salary. And I’m sorry, I may be uneducated, but I was not aware that truck drivers made this much money. I may be considering another career path.

Now let’s discuss the excellence of The Conjuring. They were able to build suspense so very well with their use of sound. The background music/noise or whatever you want to call it would get very loud, then dead quiet, then very loud again when the things happened. I don’t know exactly how they did it, but they made moments that would otherwise not be scary quite terrifying.

Also, the game Hide and Clap is honestly the greatest invention ever brought to us from a movie. My friends and I now play all the time, but we’ve changed the rules. In The Conjuring, one person is blindfolded and they’re allowed to ask the hiders for three claps. If they aren’t able to locate the hiders, they lose.

My friends and I have changed the game slightly. We made it so that hiders can move around while the seeker is searching, but they can’t leave the room if the seeker is in it with them. In addition, the seeker can only ask for claps when standing in a central point where the game is being played. For example, in Josh Booths house, his dining table is in the center of the ground floor. So in order for him to get claps, he must be touching the table. But he has unlimited claps, so this is not really a problem.

It sounds a little weird here, but I promise it is super fun.

This is definitely going to be a series because I am not done talking about The Conjuring. My apologies.