TheRetroCritic

Review of the Chevy Chase comedy Modern Problems .

I don't go see horror movies all that often but when I do... they tend to suck. This one didn't suck. Yes, surprisingly The Conjuring does a good enough job at building atmosphere, giving us characters we don't instantly hate and providing the odd scare along the way. Strangely, the film begins as a kinda goofy scary doll movie but soon morphs into a slightly more subtle poltergeist flick until finally reinventing itself as a full-blown exorcism movie. Normally I'd say the film doesn't know what it wants to be but they make it work. I would have just cut the whole doll thing as it's... pretty gosh darn pointless. And far too hilarious to be taken seriously. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga play a couple who specialise in the supernatural and are basically ghost busters. The film is set in the 70's and is far more convincing as a period piece than that Evil Dead remake. Parts of it are a call back to The Exorcist , parts of it are basically Paranormal A