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The Conjuring (2013)

The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan and written by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes. It is the inaugural film in The Conjuring Universe franchise.

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star as Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting. Their purportedly real-life reports inspired The Amityville Horror story and film franchise.^[5] The Warrens come to the assistance of the Perron family, who experienced increasingly disturbing events in their farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971.

Development of the film began in January 2012, and reports confirmed Wan as the director of a film entitled The Warren Files, later retitled The Conjuring, centering on the alleged real-life exploits of Ed and Lorraine Warren, a married couple who investigated paranormal events. In his second collaboration with Wan, Patrick Wilson starred alongside Vera Farmiga in the main roles of Ed and Lorraine. Production commenced in Wilmington, North Carolina, in February 2012, and scenes were shot in chronological order.

The Conjuring was released in the United States and Canada on July 19, 2013, by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances, direction, screenplay, atmosphere, and musical score. It grossed over $319 million worldwide against its $20 million budget. A sequel, The Conjuring 2, was released on June 10, 2016.

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The Conjuring (2013)

Rated R

112 minutes

Cast

Patrick Wilson as Ed Warren

Vera Farmiga as Lorraine Warren

Ron Livingston as Roger Perron

Lili Taylor as Carolyn Perron

Mackenzie Foy as Cindy

Joey King as Christine Perron

Hayley McFarland as Nancy

Shanley Caswell as Andrea Perron

Sterling Jerins as Judy Warren

Director

• James Wan

Screenplay

• Chad Hayes
• Carey Hayes

Producer

• Peter Safran

 

The Conjuring (2013) Plot

In 1971, Roger and Carolyn Perron move into a farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island, with their five daughters: Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cindy, and April. Their dog, Sadie, refuses to enter the house and the entrance to a cellar is been boarded up. Paranormal events occur within the first few nights. Every clock in the house stops at 3:07 AM. Sadie is found dead in the morning, and Carolyn wakes up with large bruises. She and Christine both encounter a malevolent spirit.

Carolyn contacts demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, who have recently investigated a possessed doll called Annabelle. The Warrens conduct an initial investigation, during which Lorraine, a clairvoyant, sees that dark forces have latched on to the Perron family, and leaving the house will not free them. To gather evidence, they place cameras and bells around the house with the help of their assistant Drew Thomas and police officer Brad Hamilton.

Further research reveals that the house once belonged to an accused witch named Bathsheba Sherman (a relative of Mary Towne Eastey), who sacrificed her week-old baby to the devil and killed herself in 1863 at 3:07 in the morning after cursing all who take her land. There are reports of numerous murders and suicides through the years in the houses that were built on the property.

One morning, Bathsheba appears to Carolyn and fully possesses her. That night, the group hears a spirit luring Cindy into the wardrobe, where she reveals a secret passage. Lorraine enters the passage and falls down to the cellar, where she sees the spirit of a woman whom Bathsheba had possessed long ago and used to kill her child. Bathsheba attacks Nancy; the incident is caught on camera.

The Warrens conclude it is sufficient evidence to receive authorization from the Catholic Church to perform an exorcism but Father Gordon explains that approval would have to come directly from the Vatican because the Perron family aren’t members of the church.

The Warrens’ daughter Judy is attacked in the Warrens’ own home by Bathsheba. The Perron family take refuge at a motel but Carolyn takes Christine and April back to the house to kill them. Ed, Lorraine, and Brad find Carolyn in the cellar trying to stab Christine. Lorraine warns that if they take Carolyn outside the house, Bathsheba will kill her. They tie Carolyn to a chair and Ed attempts the exorcism himself.

Though Carolyn escapes and attempts to kill April, Lorraine is able to call to her by reminding her of a special memory she shared with her family, allowing Ed to complete the exorcism and lift Bathsheba’s curse. Returning home, Ed adds the haunted music box from the Perron’s home to their room of cursed artifacts that they have collected from past cases.

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The Conjuring (2013) Box office

The Conjuring conjured $137.4 million in North America and $182.1 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $319.5 million, against a budget of $20 million.

In North America, the film opened on July 19, 2013, alongside Red 2, Turbo and R.I.P.D., and was projected to gross $30–$35 million from 2,903 theaters in its opening weekend. The film earned $3.3 million from its Thursday night showings and $17 million on its first day (including Thursday previews), doing slightly better than The Purge a month earlier.

The film went on to gross $41.9 million in its opening weekend, landing in first place and breaking The Purge‘s record as the biggest opening for an original R-rated horror film. For Warner Bros., The Conjuring surpassed the debut weekend of the distributor’s big-budget film Pacific Rim, which had opened to $37.3 million the weekend prior.^[59] While horror films usually drop at least 50% in their second weekend, The Conjuring only dropped 47%, taking in $22.2 million and placing in second behind new release The Wolverine.

After its run in theaters, the film was officially named a box office hit, grossing over fifteen times its production budget with a worldwide total of $318 million.^[2] Calculating in all production and promotional expenses, Deadline Hollywood estimated that the film made a total profit of $161.7 million. 

Outside North America, the film had a total gross of $180.6 million from all its international markets. In Australia, it grossed $1.8 million in its debut weekend, placing third at the box office behind The Heat and This Is the End. Its total gross in Australia was $8.2 million. In the United Kingdom, the film opened on August 6 alongside The Smurfs 2, making £2.6 million ($3.3 million) in its opening weekend, and grossing $16.2 million in total there. It had its biggest international gross in Mexico, opening in first place on August 23, where the film made $18.9 million overall.

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The Conjuring (2013) Critical Response

The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 86% approval rating based on 223 reviews and an average rating of 7.2/10.

The website’s critical consensus reads, “Well-crafted and gleefully creepy, The Conjuring ratchets up dread through a series of effective old-school scares.” Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”. CinemaScore reported that audiences gave The Conjuring an “A−” grade on a scale of A to F; it was the first horror film to receive an A grade from the company.

In her review following the Los Angeles Film Festival, Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter said, “With its minimal use of digital effects, its strong, sympathetic performances and ace design work, the pic harks back in themes and methods to The Exorcist and The Amityville Horror, not quite attaining the poignancy and depth of the former but far exceeding the latter in sheer cinematic beauty.”

Justin Chang of Variety gave the film a positive review, calling the film “a sensationally entertaining old-school freakout and one of the smartest, most viscerally effective thrillers in recent memory.” Alonso Duralde of TheWrap also praised the effectiveness of the film, explaining that it “doesn’t try to reinvent the tropes of horror movies, whether it’s ghosts or demons or exorcisms, but Fred Astaire didn’t invent tap-dancing, either.” Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A−, citing the effectiveness of “mood and sound effects for shocks that never feel cheap.”

Some critics reacted negatively to the film’s similarities with films such as The Exorcist and Poltergeist. Indiewire’s Eric Kohn explained that, “The Warrens may know how to handle demonic possessions, but The Conjuring suffers from a different invading force: the ghosts of familiarity.”

Andrew O’Hehir of Salon said the film provided “all the scream-inducing shocks you could want, right on schedule”, but thought the central concept – 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”.

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