American Conjuring

I've watched horror movies since I was 5. And this wasn't what I consider horror. It could have been a lot better. However, if you don't have the funds for an over the top horror film then this movie isn't that bad. Yeah the storyline could've been better and the actors could've been better. But my daughter and I enjoyed it.

Easily gotta say that the worst part about this was the acting. It was really sad. Too forced and just...BAD.

the real horror in this movie is the horrifying thought of realizing that you have wasted your time on it.

story line...seen in so many movies before, no special twists or anything like that, so you are stuck between pushing terrible acting thoughts and knowing what's going to happen anyway.

I guess that's a good one when you are really bored or can't be bothered about what's on the screen. BAD.

nothing else to say really.

What's most unsettling about this movie is the fact that it was actually made and then distributed. There's bad, and then there's the scary and sad realization that a bunch of adults found everything from the acting to the plot even merely passable. It's like they dug this one up from the bottom of the bargain bin covered with garbage and thought, yeah, let's see if we can offer it to people who are doing a search for The Conjuring but end up streaming this instead, thinking it's just as good. It's like a bout of food poisoning on screen (in some cases, literally.) If this sounds good to you, bon appetit.

One of the worst pieces of "acting" I have ever seen comes from the father in this movie. He was hideously awful as an actor. Every one of his lines came off like he was reading the script right in front of his eyes. Not only him, everyone's lines in this movie were terrible. No one talks like this. Why do movie writers insist people talk like people in a soap opera? Like the mother alone saying: "Oh, crap I forgot the washing detergent" or the daughter alone saying "this phone never gets signal". And why the hell was the mother so insistent her daughter call her step-father Dad? She's 16, she can call him whatever she wants and Dad wouldn't be one of them. Stupid idiotic movie. Saving grace was the scares from the ghost woman, but they don't save what is a vomit-ridden crap-fest of lazy dialogue, terrible acting and an hour and a half of my life worse off than before I started watching.

Comparing the overacting of the adults to the sheer underacting of the children only adds to this hilariously badly made movie. It looks like it was made by students in iMovie and it isn't even trying to hide it. The scary things that happen in the movie are almost tiny one off details. When photos are included, they are stock photos making the movie look cheap and without a budget. It also looks as if a dark filter has been added to it, as if trying to appear scarier than it is.

This movie knows nothing of real dialogue and suspense, and exists in a state of sheer confusion and random events happening in random order.