The Conjuring 2

    The Conjuring 2
    2016

    Synopsis

    Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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    Cast

    • Patrick WilsonEd Warren
    • Vera FarmigaLorraine Warren
    • Madison WolfeJanet Hodgson
    • Frances O'ConnorPeggy Hodgson
    • Simon McBurneyMaurice Grosse
    • Lauren EspositoMargaret Hodgson
    • Benjamin HaighBilly Hodgson
    • Sterling JerinsJudy Warren
    • Maria Doyle KennedyPeggy Nottingham
    • Patrick McAuleyJohnny Hodgson

    Recommendations

    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Wan’s expert deployment of genre jolts is no less in evidence this time around, but as he takes his time — perhaps even a bit too much of it — interweaving the Warrens’ story with that of the Hodgsons, in the London borough of Enfield, he crafts a deep dive into dread. The film builds to a symphonic climax of heaven-and-hell emotion.
    • 75

      TheWrap

      This sequel might lack the delightful jolts of its predecessor, but it nonetheless maintains a slow boil of terror that’s consistently unnerving.
    • 70

      Variety

      Wan has a gift that most slam-bang horror directors today do not: a sense of the audience — of their rhythm and pulse, of how to manipulate a moment so that he’s practically controlling your breathing.
    • 70

      Screen Daily

      Lacking some of the simplicity and elegance of the first instalment, The Conjuring 2 is nonetheless a smoothly efficient horror movie, building to a powerhouse finale rooted in our emotional connection to the film’s well-drawn main characters.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      There are some solid scares (Wan is too gifted in the dark art of gotcha manipulation to not make you leap a few times), but there’s nothing on par with the first film’s brilliant hide-and-clap scene with Lili Taylor. If there’s going to be a Conjuring 3—and this movie is just decent enough to suggest there will be—our heroes should be a little choosier about which case they dust off next.
    • 60

      Time Out London

      Director James Wan has his method down. The scares are effective and the camerawork is superb, all lurking long shots and short sharp shocks. Wan is fully aware of the austerity-era parallels in his story, and the period detail is surprisingly authentic.... But there’s little here we haven’t seen before.
    • 58

      The Playlist

      As it fritters away character work and ideas about faith and devotion, this is a film clever enough to scare us but not smart enough to accomplish anything more.
    • 46

      The Verge

      The film doesn't lack nerve-racking sequences or well-tuned jump scares. But it stitches them all together with a profound lack of character consistency.

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