hello dear readers today i am happy to announce that for the the first time while watching a horror film filled with jump scares i wasn’t scared or jumpy……huh wonder that looks bad on me or the film.

now my being not scared should be mostly associated to me watching more horror films than normal over the past few years that i have become a bit immunized to its effects and tropes. but this film even though having a good enough horror story never felt it capitalized on it.

the film feels sanitised in its portrayal, it has a child killing ghost and yet the film never thats the leap to make the dread seems palatable to the audience. all the ghost does it jump from blind spots, why doesn’t it do the one thing we are told it like to do even all the opportunity it gets. i couldn’t in my right-mind sit and watch this film and feel scared as i was more invested to find why the film was made so, because that seemed more pressing to me that the wedding dress wearing ghost that just cant kill kids suddenly. the whole film is just things happening for the sake of thing happening and its so to your face u cant ignore that. and by god why to horror movies show the faces of the ghost so clearly as in a photoshoot seriously once i know for sure it looks like a lady with runny makeup the scares don’t hit the hard (not like they were hitting anyways)

prior to writing this i wasn’t aware of the fact that this film is part of the Conjuring Universe franchise, which is a bit disheartening to me as i was really a fan of the original films that Kickstarted this trend i guess, with every film now being made fit the universe, i feel films are using the old hits to lure people to the new ones that are made for no reason and have nothing to say on their own.

100 movies down……..400 to go

see you soon

goodbye