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The Conjuring

  • 20132013
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  • 1h 52m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
498K
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The Conjuring (2013)
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
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Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
498K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
344
56
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • James Wan
    • Writers
      • Chad Hayes
      • Carey W. Hayes
    • Stars
      • Patrick Wilson
      • Vera Farmiga
      • Ron Livingston
    Top credits
    • Director
      • James Wan
    • Writers
      • Chad Hayes
      • Carey W. Hayes
    • Stars
      • Patrick Wilson
      • Vera Farmiga
      • Ron Livingston
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 1.2KUser reviews
    • 569Critic reviews
    • 68Metascore
    • Awards
      • 15 wins & 22 nominations

    Videos9

    Trailer #3
    Trailer 2:33
    Trailer #3
    Version 2
    Trailer 2:28
    Version 2
    Version 1
    Trailer 2:34
    Version 1
    The Conjuring
    Trailer 2:26
    The Conjuring
    What to Watch: Dating Dealbreakers
    Clip 5:40
    What to Watch: Dating Dealbreakers
    A Guide to the Films of James Wan
    Clip 1:37
    A Guide to the Films of James Wan
    "The Warren Files" Featurette
    Featurette 2:55
    "The Warren Files" Featurette
    What We Know About 'The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It' ... So Far
    Video 3:16
    What We Know About 'The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It' ... So Far
    Meet the Demonic 'Nun' Haunting 'The Conjuring' Films
    Video 3:57
    Meet the Demonic 'Nun' Haunting 'The Conjuring' Films

    Photos182

    Steve Coulter, Vera Farmiga, and Patrick Wilson in The Conjuring (2013)
    Ron Livingston in The Conjuring (2013)
    Lili Taylor in The Conjuring (2013)
    Lili Taylor, Joey King, and Kyla Deaver in The Conjuring (2013)
    Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston, Patrick Wilson, and John Brotherton in The Conjuring (2013)
    Joseph Bishara and Sterling Jerins in The Conjuring (2013)
    Lili Taylor in The Conjuring (2013)
    Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston, and Patrick Wilson in The Conjuring (2013)
    Vera Farmiga in The Conjuring (2013)
    The Conjuring (2013)
    Lili Taylor and Joey King in The Conjuring (2013)
    Lili Taylor and Vera Farmiga in The Conjuring (2013)

    Top cast

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    Patrick Wilson
    Patrick Wilson
    • Ed Warren
    Vera Farmiga
    Vera Farmiga
    • Lorraine Warren
    Ron Livingston
    Ron Livingston
    • Roger Perron
    Lili Taylor
    Lili Taylor
    • Carolyn Perron
    Shanley Caswell
    Shanley Caswell
    • Andrea
    Hayley McFarland
    Hayley McFarland
    • Nancy
    Joey King
    Joey King
    • Christine
    Mackenzie Foy
    Mackenzie Foy
    • Cindy
    Kyla Deaver
    Kyla Deaver
    • April
    Shannon Kook
    Shannon Kook
    • Drew
    John Brotherton
    John Brotherton
    • Brad
    Sterling Jerins
    Sterling Jerins
    • Judy Warren
    Marion Guyot
    • Georgiana
    Morganna Bridgers
    Morganna Bridgers
    • Debbie
    Amy Tipton
    Amy Tipton
    • Camilla
    Kymoura Kennedy
    • Student #1
    Sean Flynn
    • Student #2
    Ashley White
    Ashley White
    • Female Student
    • Director
      • James Wan
    • Writers
      • Chad Hayes
      • Carey W. Hayes
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The real Perron family visited the set of the film.
    • Goofs
      Judy Warren is shown in the movie as a child in 1971; the Warrens' daughter was born during WWII and would have been a grown adult around the time this film takes place.
    • Quotes

      Lorraine Warren: Do you remember the thing you said on our wedding night?

      Ed Warren: Can we do it again?

      Lorraine Warren: No! The other thing, that God brought us together for a reason.

    • Crazy credits
      When the names "Shannon Kook", "John Brotherton", "Sterling Jerins" appear in the end credits, a white cross on the grave turns upside down.
    • Connections
      Featured in Showreel: We've Got Keanu Reeves (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      Time of the Season
      Written by Rod Argent

      Performed by The Zombies

      Courtesy of Marquis Enterprises, Ltd.

      By arrangement with Ace Music Services, LLC

    User reviews1.2K

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    A Gripping, Tense and Overall Masterful Genre Revival
    Like comedy, the horror genre can be a very subjective beast, finding or missing its mark as much do to its craft and execution as it does the particular individual who plops themselves into a theater seat. If something isn't scary to someone – someone who earnestly believes that of course – then a fright flick has failed at its core intent. Then we have something like James Wan's The Conjuring, an artful, confident throwback that succeeds in maintaining a high tensile level of pressure on our senses, crafting vital jump scares, a potent human element and all encompassing technical prowess. This is the type of brave, but stripped down horror filmmaking that forces you to analyze other elements besides just the full effectiveness of its frightening intent. Plus it's scary as hell.

    The Conjuring completes a modern supernatural horror film trifecta started with Wan's own Insidious in 2010 and bridged by last year's unsettling Sinister. With these films the genre has proved that this is far from a dead, now inherently clichéd area of cinema and this effort is perhaps the best of all three. After breaking onto the scene in a big way with the trend setting Saw, the director took a bit of creative detour in the eyes of most with revenge thriller Death Sentence and supernatural doll flick Dead Silence (which is vastly underrated by the way) before rebounding with the aforementioned Insidious. For The Conjuring it seems Wan has taken everything he's learned – congealing everything he's found to be effective – and assembled them exquisitely and with ample new flare to boot.

    The Conjuring pulls its inspiration from a case file of famed demonologists and paranormal investigators the Warrens, the husband and wife team who's other journeys inspired films such as The Amityville Horror. Here they are played respectively by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga who are now both genre regulars with roles in Insidious and the upcoming Chapter 2 due this year for the gentleman and Orphan and television's Psycho prequel Bates Motel for Farmiga. We've all seen the painful trope of priests, exorcists, psychics and every nut-job in between showing up at the eleventh hour to save a haunted family but the way they're approached in The Conjuring stands as one of the film's greatest strengths.

    Though it's something that should be completely obvious out of the gate (but still something those inspired by the Warren's stories forget) this is just as much their story as those experiencing the phenomena. In giving nearly as much screen time to this duo as it does the Perron's (a seven family troop lead by actors Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor and their five daughters) we grow and involve with these nine individuals so when things get terrifying we not only feel just as much for everyone on screen but everyone gets a satisfying arc. It's something so rare in most horror films. Though this dynamic is certainly not presented through these two separate camps – the fearful and the experts – but the men bond over their love of cars and their wives and the women over the unfathomable: harm befalling their children. It's a satisfying an utterly untapped approach for the genre.

    But "wait, wait" you proclaim "this is a horror movie after all, stop talking about the little girls and get to the scares!" Graciously, somewhat rude reader. The Conjuring is creepy, intermittently nightmarish, tense, gross, unsettling, and in its purest form, scary. This is the type of film that dares you not to hug yourself or laugh nervously in the hopes you deflect some iota of the sensation of primal fear. But these emotions are never extracted in a manipulative fashion and the jump scares are orchestrated effectively through physical objects falling, bumping, banging and generally causing off-putting noises, not blaring, out of context musical chords.

    The camera work is also fantastic employing every angle imaginable and even some very impressive point of view and upside-down-spin shots. It's easily Wan's best directed effort to date but never one that lets its style eclipse the mood. Similarly his use of sound both in the score (which utilizes your average brooding options as well as sharp, grating notes that call back to horror of days gone by) and practical noises such as a strained rope swinging or a door slamming shut. Again, it all adds to the experience and in eventually pulling of the major frights.

    Like most fare of this nature, the restrained tension does take a bit of a hit heading into the finale, as subtlety is sacrificed for more overt horror to resolve the story. Thankfully this change in approach is handled with just as much aplomb and also manages to deliver one of the most effective exorcism sequences in recent memory – a victory made all the more notable thanks to the generally overexposed and silly nature of that staple. It's not the perfect ending that the previous acts demanded but one that by no means insults the audience and still remains scary (if in a more upfront manner).

    Perhaps the biggest compliment I can pay The Conjuring is that it actually deserves a sequel. There are tales of the Warrens left to tell and the acting is uniformly strong enough that revisiting these characters would be more a treat then a chore. It takes a skillful filmmaker to take well worn themes and approaches (while avoiding gore and a high body count to boot) and make them seem as original as ever. Coming from a huge horror buff and one that experiences more disappointments then the average soul can handle, I can earnestly say The Conjuring is one of the best ever and what can serve as a fantastic induction into the genre for the uninitiated.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 19, 2013 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • Latin
    • Also known as
      • The Warren Files
    • Filming locations
      • North Carolina, USA
    • Production companies
      • New Line Cinema
      • The Safran Company
      • Evergreen Media Group
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $20,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $137,446,368
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $41,855,326
      • Jul 21, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $320,406,242
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 52 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Datasat
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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