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All the actors give convincing performances in this supernatural thriller, even the youngest members of the cast.

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Wan shoots "The Conjuring" like a Robert Altman film, slip-sliding around the interior or the exterior of the old dark house in a series of slow zooms and gratifyingly complex extended takes.

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Against all odds, and over the course of just a couple years, one-time horror hack James Wan (Saw, Dead Silence) has evolved into a gifted maestro of bump-in-the-dark entertainment.

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A month before its release, James Wan’s supernatural thriller took its North American bow at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

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Classy old-school horror, James Wan’s “The Conjuring’’ depends more on its excellent cast and atmospheric direction than cheap gimmicks to raise hairs on the back of your neck. Which it does, quite frequently.

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So kudos to The Conjuring for putting fresh fire into the overworked haunted-house genre.

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Whatever your belief system, this much is gospel: Movies like The Conjuring are less about the battle between God and Satan than the battle between the silly and the scary.

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It's the American box office success of the summer, but Robbie Collin is more tickled than terrified by horror film The Conjuring.

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TThe Conjuring, James Wan's latest conflation of the horror genre's laziest tropes, plot angels, and shorthands, begins with a lecture, though not one in Latin derivation, as in the filmmaker's earlier Dead Silence.

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The big difference is that "The Exorcist" took the nation by storm with fresh ideas and brilliant filmmaking. The Conjuring conjures with amped-up echoes of old ideas, and represents a bet that they still retain their creepy appeal for today's audience.

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Something like half the running time of the engaging new don't-go-in-the-basement thriller The Conjuring is devoted to showing us characters proceeding slowly into the basement, or into the maws of basement-like places we know they shouldn't go, often with just matches or a flashlight to guide them.

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The Conjuring wants it both ways, alleging veracity to legitimize its premise and then using familiar (read: overused) tactics to scare the bejesus out of you. It’s enough to make your head turn 360 degrees.

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From "Saw" to "Insidious," indie horror filmmaker James Wan's films have always been confrontational in their guileless grand-standing. So it's not surprising that watching "The Conjuring" is like getting a tour of a haunted house attraction from someone that pushes, and pulls you through every room.

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