The Conjuring 2 (2016)

**This time a London family struggle in their haunted house.**
First of all, I am not a big fan of the first film, but I liked that. Now this sequel was not bad either. This time it takes us to the London. But the film reminded me the 80s film 'Poltergeist', particularly the second part. So don't assume it is exactly the same, only the scenes involving house seems similar, but the story was different. It is another true story based film, that's what they said in the opening statement. You're not forced to believe that, if you're here for an entertainment, you will get that if you put your logics away for the two hours.
A family of four young children and their mother living in a house in the London witness some serious paranormal activities lately. Particularly the eleven year old girl affected the most with the spirit the house possessed. So the American couple from the first film are brought in to do their best to help the family. When they try to contact the spirit, they won't get what they were looking for. Instead, an unexpected blame goes for the girl and soon the family loses confidence in them. The overcoming those misunderstanding, particularly realising the truth brings a twist before concluding the tale.
The one twenty minute never looked too long. Because there's always something keeps happening, so the audience to keep engaged with. Probably this is won't be your best horror film of the years, but being a horror themed film, it had good form of those contents. Not too scary, at a time those clichés were used in a good way to bring freshness in the scenes. I will credit the writers for that. Besides, the actors were undoubtedly good, including those little ones. For me this is a better horror film and I definitely look for another sequel. I hope this one would stand up to your expectations.
_7.5/10_

This is rated "R" and it's hard to believe...but let's face it, scary movies just aren't that scary anymore.
Not that many of them ever were. And even then few have actually provided the constant nightmares of The Exorcist...
But The Conjuring 2 feels like it's going for the PG scares to not lose audiences.
The potential is there, but the director is flying with one hand on the chicken switch and pulls out of everything that's not worse than a jump-scare.
We have the potential for an actual psychologically thrilling horror story here, but its a wasted potential.
Ultimately, like every other horror movie made of late, it seems afraid to actually frighten people.
Still, it's better than the torture porn on the market