The Conjuring is James Wan’s latest horrorshow and has just taken over million on its first weekend of release, an unprecedented feat for an original horror film. Films which do not have the marketing behemoths available to other summer releases rely on the positive wave of word of mouth and The Conjuring has certainly enjoyed this. From Saw and Insidious Wan’s love of psychological terror runs through his work and with the response to The Conjuring goes a long way to prove that audiences feel the same.
The story behind The Conjuring is based on the memoirs of ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren and their encounter with a 18th Century Rhode Island farmhouse and the family who were terrorised by evil spirits. USA Today spoke to Lorraine Warren about her recollection of the events and her work on the film,
“The things that went on there were just so incredibly frightening…It still affects me to talk about it today”
While one of the original family, Andrea Perron, gives a little more clarity and what was real and what was invented for the film,
“[The film is] a beautiful tapestry [with] many elements of truth to it, and some moments of fiction. Whoever the spirit was, she perceived herself to be mistress of the house and she resented the competition my mother posed for that position.”
This new trailer shows off a little of what Wan has in store for us when his latest Horror movie opens in the UK on the 2nd of August.
