Honestly, I'm no horror movie fan as they give me creeps and I just don't enjoy that kind of cinema. Drama is more like my genre as I find it engaging. Anyways, I had to watch The Conjuring thanks to my fiancée (I'm going to ensure that he returns the favor :P). It was a good horror movie (not sure if I can really judge - I don't have any benchmark to compare and besides, I closed my eyes during half the movie!) and you can gather the rest from reviews. This is one review which struck me though and I'm in agreement with it: Andrew O'Hehir of Salon said the film provided "all the scream-inducing shocks you could want, right on schedule", but thought the central conceit -- that the innocent women accused and executed in the Salem witch trials "actually were witches, who slaughtered children and pledged their love to Satan and everything!" -- was "reprehensible and inexcusable bullshit". I'm glad somebody mentioned it! Y
In My Radical Opinion