I recently watched The Conjuring with a couple of friends and I can honestly say we had a great time. The film was pretty much everything you could ask for in a horror movie. The story itself is nothing new; a family looking for a new beginning moves into a new house, family meets demon but can't move because they sunk all their money into the home, and in any case the demon has attached to them and would follow them anyway. All your standard horror plots, but what really made it good was all the build-up and suspense.
Most of the movie was like a tease -- something glass would break or a door would open and you would expect something to be there but it'd be nothing. In this way, it really put you in a realistic position of the family. Things happen and you rationalize, tell yourself there's nothing there, that everything is fine. It was the wind, or just the house being creaky, or your eyes playing tricks. That's what really built up the horror of this film until finally it all snapped and the true horrors of the house are revealed.
Definitely recommending this for fans of the genre, and here's a trailer for those interested!
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