THE CONJURING

New Line Cinema

Directed by:  James Wan

Starring by: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor, Ron Livingstone

My interest in this film, so I choose to watch it this week is because Ed and Lorraine Warner, husband and wife couples who known well as a demonologist (ghost hunter) whose shaking Connecticut with their famous file, Amityville Mystery. On the teaser, the couple of protagonists shown in the scene when they help to solve the case of their client that had been terrorize by Annabelle doll. The succeeding to lock up the devil doll catch many people’s attention to know more about their capability.

Ed speech that very convincing in front of the class always inviting curiosity from many student to ask him question about ghost, and his answer that always sharp made them believe that they’ve almost succeed in their job, catching ghost but what narrator text said that something evil that hiding by Ed and Lorraine catch my attention to look the film intentionally.

Like Amityville Horror, The Conjuring also played a horror situation around and inside the house. When The Perron Family, conduct by their dad, Roger, and his wife, Carolyn, move to their new house they hadn’t notice strange thing about the place. If they weren’t so excited, they must realize there’s something wrong with the house. Especially when their pets, a dog names Dusty, refuse to come inside. Tension in this film constructed step by step.

Start from the family that found out about the basement under their house, which is shield by wooden beams in some dormitory, when they played hide n seek. The brushes that marked every morning on Carolyn’s body, the dog that killed in the morning, and strange disturbance in every night such as door banging, foot step on the top floor, or noises from the basement. The increasing terrors that made everyone on Perron’s family are being haunted, finally make Carolyn ought to see The Warner’s to ask for their help. Especially when her daughter, Christine, was terrified in horror one night and saying that some ghost will killed them all.

Ed and Lorraine check on Perron’s house. Lorraine, who’s got a sixth sense, realized there some powerful spirit, the bad ones, who try to intimidate those families and not intend to release their dominant over them. She’s had a vision, which I’ve said it’s cool, since the time she came to their door. The spirit behind Carolyn who opened it and pleased them to come, something behind the daughters, and hanging figure on a large tree branch which located at the backyard.

   

The Warners conduct some serious investigation then. Not only wearing the four rooms in that house with many audio equipment and camera to censored the movement of the spirits, they’ve also gathers data about the house’s history that turn out to be some property which belongs to a witch names Betsheba. The witch committed murder in her boy and condemn the land that she’s own before she hung herself. Since then, the property was curse and everyone who bought it end up dead.

The spirits of Betsheba who consume Carolyn soul also want her to kill all her daughters. And like any case of the demon possession, the spirit targeting the most vulnerable person in the circle, which is the mom and made her an object that crushed brutally. Ed and Lorraine had to stop Carolyn to killed her daughters and throw out Betsheba who stay inside. The help they’ve need from Vatikan to send a Pastors who can do the exorcism didn’t come, that’s why Ed decide to make it by himself.      

What made The Conjuring powerful is strong emotion play on the story by main characters, so were not only treated with frightened moment or horrifying scene but also built some sympathies for the character. The happiness of the family is always something precious and undefeatable, and someone or something who try to spoil becomes cruel party that should be removed. After successfully repel the spirit of Betsheba Sherman in Perron’s house, at the end of the film is told that Lorraine ask Ed to meet some Pastors in Long Island who’d like to discuss some case, and that was Amityville Horror. Actually, it isn’t right because this film take year on 1971 whereas Amityville case did not occurred several years later.

Despite little mistake such as the sound meter needle on the recorder that doesn’t move when Ed and Lorraine listening the interview in audible pattern, I think The Conjuring was great movie. It gives some happy ending that pleased everyone, and most of them won’t to know that was different scene in real life. On some interview, which published by Youtube, Lorraine Warner gave her testimony that the ghost didn’t actually leave the family. Like she says on the film, once you’ve being haunted is like sticking your life by gum, it won’t live you unless you clean it, and the ghost indeed remains with the family every where they’ve go, until they accept Christ and Lord of God for eternal salvation.