Ms. Spenser was looking for a reliable horror movie, and picked James Wan's The Conjuring 2 (2016). We hadn't really been won over by the first one, but hope springs.
We started with a little reprise of the Amityville story to introduce the psychic investigation team of Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson. Then we meet the next haunted contestants - a family in England is being haunted. One of the daughters is having visions and dreams about the gross old man who lived in their house before they did. It eventually gets pretty wild, and the church calls in Farmiga and Wilson - because the church can't get in involved if it's a hoax.
Now, this family is pretty broke - the dad left them for another family, the place is kind of a dump, and maybe they are looking for publicity, a little money, or at least a nicer place to live. But we, the audience see too much to make that seem likely. Still, Farmiga doesn't detect any ghosts, and she's usually very sensitive. But she has also been having dreams - of seeing Wilson impaled. So she would rather that they didn't get involved.
The Farmiga/Wilson team are sort of growing on me. I especially like Wilson's mid-70's look. The English family is a bit of a downer - squalid house, troubled kids, son who stutters, and so on. Some of the fun of these movies is the business with the family while they're not being haunted, and I just didn't take to these.
Ms. Spenser was pretty disappointed too. Besides, it gets dark so late these days, it's hardly worth watching a scary movie.
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