The Conjuring review: Spooky but intelligent

In this day and age, it's no secret that horror films aren't particularly considered "well-constructed movies". In so many modern horrors, the pure aim has been to make audiences jump or make them feel nauseous. The Conjuring hasn't been tarnished with those cheap techniques and that's what makes it the only stand-out scary for some time!

It's no surprise that it spawns from director James Wan, who helped bring us Saw and Insidious, films which did start to resonate with audiences upon their release. Is Wan slowly becoming the new master of all things sinister? He seems to be trying to reinvent the genre, attempting to make it more of a serious avenue for films to go down rather than a tainted one.

Wan to look out for!

From the director of Saw, Insidious and a personal favourite horror movie of mine, Dead Silence, comes The Conjuring. Based upon the story of the real-life paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, who were the first people to investigate the Amityville haunting, when they go to help the Perron family convinced they are being threatened by powerful entity.

What is intriguing me about this upcoming film is it doesn't look like your typical demonic film. Due to flops like The Last Exorcism, Apartment 143 and The Devil Inside, the mockumentary style has been labelled as a risky technique. With these types of films, it's sometimes hard to tell whether you're watching something that is trying to be ridiculously authentic or just a purely constructed movie, but James Wan seems to have gone at it from a different angle, which looks to be like it might save "mockumentary" altogether.