I’m going to start with BRAVO! I was not disappointed with this movie!
FUUUUUDDDDDGGGEEE (But I’m really saying the other word)… it was great!
If you have read any of my reviews or listened to our podcasts (which you should!!!), I tend toward the possessions, hauntings, poltergeist type of movies most. And the Conjuring Universe along with Haunting on Hill House and Bly Manor have been some of my favorite movies / tv series because of the quality of story, filming, acting and the scares. And so, The Conjuring 3, hit all the right cords for me.
Director: Michael Chaves (also directed The Curse of La Llorona 2019)
Writers: James Wan (of course), David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Chad Hayes (all of which had a hand in the previous Conjuring movies)
Cast: of course; Patrick Wilson, and Vera Farmiga (the Warrens), Ruairi O’Connor (Arne Johnson), Julian Hilliard (little David Glatzel), Sarah Catherine Hook (Debbie Glatzel / Sister), John Noble (Kastner), Shannon Kook (Drew), Eugenie Bondurant (the Satanist / Occultist)
(Currently in Theatres or HBO Max – for now)
So, we know by now a bit about the Warren’s and their cases. If you have ever been on the New England Society for Psychic Research website (https://tonyspera.com/) you can actually look at some of the information about some of their cases. This one happens to be a case that attracted national attention, due to Arne Johnson defense being “The devil made me do it” / or Demonic Possession. Ed Warren was adamant about if the Courts accept the existence of God (every time a witness swears to tell the truth), that it was time it would accept the existence of the devil.
And so…. Back to the movie, which was a complete nail biter from the beginning all the way to the end. The other Conjuring movies, give you a bit of a ‘slow-roll’ into the action, but not this latest installment, nope. The story plunges you immediately into the middle of an exorcism of a little 8-year-old boy, David (Hilliard). I felt like this sucker-punch of a beginning connected you immediately to this family afflicted with this terrible situation. Of course, Hilliard is one of my favorite young actors currently having been in Haunting of Hill House. He makes me think of how most of us felt about the little boy in Jerry Maguire. Anyway, I did feel like this movie really connected the watcher to the characters in a way that doesn’t always happen in a movie. Course, we are already ‘connected’ to the Warrens, but you really, really feel for them in this movie. They are challenged in ways that most married people would never even imagine. But you also feel the connection for the Glatzels and Arne Johnson right off the bat, which carries your care and concern for their well-being through the whole 2 hours.
This movie is chalk full of amazing and terrifying scenes that make you jump, scream (if you’re like me) and shake in your seat. The effects are amazingly grueling and awesomely amazing, yes I just said that.. very well done. And the acting sells the story and the pain and angst these characters are experiencing. The movie, just shy of 2 hours, went by like the blink of an eye and for a horror film fanatic, this movie is one of the best I have seen, and I wanted more... to me, the worst and best feeling at the end of a movie.
Okay, I’ve gushed on this movie, while trying not to give away anything… so GO SEE IT NOW!!!! Or in the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger … “Do it! Do it NOW!”
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