The Conjuring 3 Forgets What Made The Original Movie So Special

The Conjuring 3 Forgets What Made The Original Movie So Special

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The Conjuring 3 may be louder and more epic than the original The Conjuring movie, but it doesn’t succeed at being as utterly terrifying.

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The Conjuring 3 Forgets What Made The Original Movie So Special

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is flashier and more expensive than the original Conjuring film, but the sequel still fails to capture the intimately scary atmosphere of its predecessor. Whereas the plot of the third entry in the blockbuster horror franchise is a winding adventure that pits the Warrens against their most violently demonic foes yet, the haunted house aspect of the first film was a much more focused story with quieter and more unsettling scares.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It or, as most are apt to call it, The Conjuring 3, is the highly-anticipated return to the main Conjuring series after years of spin-offs that included the Annabelle movies, The Nun, and The Curse of La Llorona. It also marks the first time that a core Conjuring film was not directed by James Wan. Instead, the duty was passed on to Michael Chaves, who also directed The Curse of La Llorona, which may explain the change in style and story that differentiates the third movie from the first two Wan-helmed entries (though Wan was a writer and producer on the film).

After the release of The Conjuring 2, producer Peter Safran stated that the third film was most likely not going to follow the same haunted house route as the first two movies (there was even some speculation that the film would totally shift direction from demons to werewolves). Instead of staying in a single location while trying to help a family under a demonic threat, the Warrens get to travel around and try to discover the roots of real-life Arne Cheyenne Johnson’s demonic possession and subsequent act of murder.

The Conjuring Reinvented The Modern Horror Genre

The Conjuring 3 Forgets What Made The Original Movie So Special

The first Conjuring movie was a milestone for modern horror and a smashing success that shifted the horror paradigm for the mainstream and defined people’s image of the genre for the rest of the decade. Horror needed a new face at the turn of the century when “torture porn” was feeling tasteless, remakes of older slasher movies were quick to grow stale, and zombies, though maintaining a strong foothold thanks to The Walking Dead and World War Z, were permeating too many corners of pop culture to stay scary. Though not the first movie of its kind to release in the 2010s, The Conjuring is among the decade’s best horror films, and catalyzed a fresh obsession with hauntings, and demons.

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The film didn’t necessarily reinvent the wheel, but its effectiveness lied in the way Wan reinterpreted old haunted house traditions and tropes for a modern audience. The director took an old-school approach to his work, modeling the style after supernatural horror from the seventies and utilizing long, slow pans, zooms, and tracking shots. The resulting effect allows the viewer to gain a rich visual understanding of the physical dimensions of the house while also ratcheting tension from the feeling that something might be lurking in those dark corners. Wan also omitted ominous music for the sake of an eerie quiet during the most suspenseful moments. The infamously spooky hide and clap scene serves as a perfect example of how these elements mesh together, the camera slowly following Lili Taylor’s Carolyn as she nervously wanders alone looking for the source of the ghostly sound.

Conjuring 3 Favors Jump Scares Over Subtle Horror

The Conjuring 3 Forgets What Made The Original Movie So Special

Although the hide and clap sequence in The Conjuring ultimately ends in a jump scare, Wan is so effective at building suspense and framing the final fright in a sufficiently claustrophobic manner that it doesn’t feel like a typical Hollywood jump scare. From the demonic woman on top of the dresser to the bedsheet over the ghost, the scares are meticulously planned out and crafted so that the audience is treated to a payoff. On the other hand, The Conjuring 3 telegraphs its scares so plainly and breezes over most of the buildup so that the audience knows exactly what to expect. The loud noise may still cause a jumpy reaction, but it’s different than the genuine terror felt in the first Conjuring.

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Although The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is very much a horror movie, its size-able budget and winding plot resemble an action-adventure more in line with something like the most recent Bill Skarsgård-starring It films than the first two Conjuring entries. That means that the scares are loud, the CGI is ramped up, and the set pieces are more packed with thrills than chills. While the original film took its patient time to build up to scares, filling the audience with dread, the new Conjuring can’t wait to make some sort of demented creature scream at its viewers as quickly and as loudly as possible.

Conjuring 3 Is Still Necessary To Keep The Franchise Fresh

All this criticism isn’t to say that the shift in approach is a bad thing. As creative as the first two Conjuring movies were, Peter Safran was correct in his assessment that the tormented family in a haunted house formula would eventually get old. As the third film in the series (and the eighth in the entire Conjuring franchise), The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It needed to present a spin on the concept in order to feel fresh. The Conjuring helped launch a horror craze in the 2010s, but as a new decade begins, who knows how long the franchise’s momentum can travel before it grows stale?

It makes sense that The Conjuring needed to embrace a story on a grander scale. This isn’t the latest superhero action movie, but the horror franchise remains one of the most popular and profitable in modern movie history. The premise that the Warrens weren’t confined to one haunted house location provided an opportunity to make the movie feel bigger with a more epic scope, so having scares focused on the scale of the set-piece rather than the atmosphere suits the cinematic universe-expanding The Conjuring 3. It’s just a shame it couldn’t have been werewolves.

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