Jun 22, 2016 01:23 AM
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The Conjuring 2 should have been more of the same. Instead, it’s just 2 much.
There’s so much plot here, and so many extraneous effects, that the real spookiness at the movie’s heart is obscured.
The story is based, roughly, on the true-life and sort-of famous Enfield hauntings of the late 1970s, in which a working-class family living in a council house in northern London were tormented by a strange presence, one that seemed particularly fixated on preteen Janet Hodgson(played here by Madison Wolfe).
The case attracted lots of media attention in Great Britain, and a Google search will bring up pictures of the real-life Janet Hodgson levitating—or “levitating, ” depending on your level of skepticism—from her bed. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, the pictures of this small, skinny girl in her nightie, seemingly leaping from her bed with all muscles tensed, are strange and spooky.
