The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

This is a tired, corny, and predictable sequel in a franchise where the wellspring of ideas seems to have dried up, permanently exhausted, replaced only by increasingly louder sound effects. The movie makers stretched the movie out to near under a two-hour running time, just because the movie is part of a well-established and commercially successful franchise, however, with such a sparse plot and sluggish pacing, it makes absolutely no sense. The movie is visually appealing, the amount of money spent on this movie is obvious, when you look at the screen, and Patrick Wilson does the best he can with what he has been given to work with, however, otherwise it is just an amalgamation of things we have seen in countless other movies where they were carried out in more imaginative ways. (11/06/2021)

If you’re a fan of exorcism horror and consider the Warrens your go-to paranormal experts, then the instalment of The Conjuring is a must-watch. It’s well-made and holds up visually, though the story does drag a bit. I found myself still engaged, even if there were a few moments of mild boredom and not quite as many scares as I was hoping for. (05/12/2021)

The previous concept of a torturous haunted house horror movie has been replaced in the third installment with the motif of a criminal satanic thriller, which relies on suspense rather than heart attack jump scares and in many ways takes inspiration from the most famous exorcism films. This sidestep worked for me (though I'm clearly in the minority) and I found it interesting to watch the Warrens fight the judicial system in addition to the evil forces this time around. [70%] (09/07/2021)

This so incredibly stupid that I almost fell asleep 16 times. For God's sake leave these ghost horror movies alone! Especially The Conjuring, because they are violently eating away at a motif that has been raped and rehashed so many times you couldn't count. The Conjuring 3 is, I'd say, "different story, same shit" because the sets and details are changed a bit, but the basic skeleton is the same thing over and over again, without any innovation. The Acting is bland (Vera Farmiga looks 70:D), the story is disastrous and uninteresting, the atmosphere is 0, the jump scares are also 0 (!!!!!???? ), and although at the beginning I liked that it was "kind of a different ghost" and the camera was not limited to one family in one house, over time the investigation, defending demonic possession in court and at the end kind of home invasion started to get on my nerves and I can objectively say that it is a very bad movie. If the audience is going to scold this into red stars, then it's that their pretentiousness knows no bounds... (04/06/2021)

With its effective subject matter, The Devil Made Me Do It freshens up the franchise, taking it in the right direction. It starts out as an ambitious “whodunit” with mysterious question marks and a search for connections between two events, with a third event gradually coming into play. However, in the final build-up of the story, Chaves doesn’t quite have the directorial skill to handle the interconnection of the settings and their characters, and the ideas slide into genre mediocrity. Scenes that could have been powerful moments for the whole franchise (Ed’s first attack on Lorraine) are told in passing at the expense of focusing on the details in the “secondary storyline" with the young convict. And the epilogue is outright kitsch. (24/09/2021)