Have You Seen: The Conjuring (2013)

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.This week we revisit The Conjuring, a 2013 supernatural horror movie directed by James Wan and starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson and Ron Livingston, about a family who moves into a haunted farm and needs the help of demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren in Rhode Island in 1971.We talk about our reaction to The Conjuring as a first time viewer and whether the movie's style of horror worked for us, how it compares to the more character focused horror we tend to prefer and why the Warrens are not very compelling people in this movie, how this movie handles the real world hauntings and people it is based on, whether it matters when a movie claims to be based on a real story, if there is an ethical line that a movie can cross and whether there is a point at which a movie is just lying to its audience, and much more.Also check out our review of the conclusion of the Conjuring series with The Conjuring: Last Riteshttps://open.spotify.com/episode/6DiBYzDzcqLUeFrQOpk6ul