James Wan's "The Conjuring" is a film that proudly evinces the 70s style filmmaking of William Friedkin's "The Exorcist" and Andrew Douglas's "The Amityville Horror." Wan, whose past credits include the ambiguous "Saw" film which reveled in and essentially reinvigorated the torture porn genre, nonetheless still contained it's own thrills and unique atmospheric tension. And with each succeeding film he's sought to push that tension to it's limits. Utilizing a classicist perspective in the process.
"The Conjuring," which is the sixth feature from the director of "Insidious," is as much of a classical style horror film as the director could get. This viscerally beautiful package is a ruefully suspenseful trip into the paranormal and filled with a sly self-aware humor.
