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I loved the latest instalment in the Conjuring universe. It had all the right elements to make a proper horror story; scary antagonist, characters you actually care about, atmosphere and suspense and a little bit of gore but not too much. And it lead us right up to the previous movies in a satisfactiory manner. Or to put it another way, it's a prequel done right. Oh, and it expands the universe nicely. Now I'll wait patiently for The Nun next year.

I watched creation last night and absolutely loved it. I still have yet to see conjuring 2 so I'm sure there are some references that went over my head. Planning on marathoning them shortly, I don't much remember Annabelle or the first movie.

I liked the Conjuring a lot, but the Conjuring II less so. Annabelle one was pretty dull. Not sure I even want to bother with the sequel.

Yeah, I started out liking the Conjuring (though not as much as Insidious), felt the Conjuring 2 was not so hot, and disliked Annabelle. When I saw Annabelle 2, I could only ask why? The trailers made it look like it was rehashing a lot of cliché devices and jump scares.

Good to hear that it may be a turnaround, though!

I consider myself a fan of mediocre and cheap horror films, and even for me Annabelle was bad.

The first Annabelle movie wasn't great but I thought it was passable at least. I tend to go by the atmosphere generated by the movie, and its atmosphere was ok. Incidentally, that's why I think the first woman in black movie is one of the best horror movies this decade; it's atmosphere is intense.

Totally agree with both points- WIB was great and Annabelle was not :-)

I definitely liked Woman in Black, though I think it could have been a much better movie with some more well timed creepiness but it certainly had atmosphere.

I thought The Conjuring looked really lame, but I saw it anyway. It turned out to be quite good.

So, then The Conjuring 2 came out. I again thought it looked kind of like crap, but one day I had nothing going so saw it, and again it was pretty good.

So now I am wondering about Annabelle. I saw the trailer during The Dark Tower, and frankly it looks like 90 minutes of jump scenes. Wondering if I should see it anyway, given the franchise's history. I didn't see whatever the previous doll movie was.

I'm happy to report that Annebelle 2 doesn't rely solely on jump scares, but I can't give too much away without spoiling it.

Well, I'm a total sucker for horror movies, so I'm in.

Got to keep up the variety! Can't be all Zombies/Slasher all the time. Need some hokey supernatural nonsense chucked in as well.

 LordofHats wrote:
I definitely liked Woman in Black, though I think it could have been a much better movie with some more well timed creepiness but it certainly had atmosphere.

Is that the one with 'Harry Potter' in it?

Yes. I thought he did fairly well.