Director: James Wan
Running Time: 134 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: October 17th 2016 (UK)
The Conjuring surprised many when it grossed over $300 million on a $20 million budget. It ensured that a sequel was quickly put in the works (as well as last year’s spin-off, Annabelle), with the filmmakers looking through the cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren for more inspiration. What they came up with was the Enfield Poltergeist, one of Britain’s most documented paranormal cases, which was also the inspiration for Sky TV’s The Enfield Haunting earlier this year.
The film starts out with another very famous case the Warrens were involved in, Amityville, before moving to Britain and the Hodgson family, living in a council house in North London. Single mother Patricia (Frances O’Connor) and her two daughters and two sons, are being increasingly frightened by paranormal activity, which is moving things around the house and possessing one of the daughters. [Read more…]
For a few years there was a bit of a lull in adaptations of Stephen King novels, but recently he seems to have become flavour of the month again, from Scott Derrickson planning a film version of The Breathing Method to Jonathan Demme working on 11/22/63. Now