If there are movies that easily catch my attention is one that claims to be based on a true life occurrence. And there is a movie that got me so curious about happenings, especially concerning the paranormal that I went online to investigate. Are these real? Is it possible? Asides the existence of ghosts and troubled spirits, did they really constitute so much trouble for inhabitants of a house? We have always heard of stories of haunted houses and they have always been depicted as fictional, but when a movie comes out to say its based on true life...now that's a different ball game!
Its The Conjuring, a 2013 American supernatural horror film which tells the true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse.
In 1971, Roger and Carolyn Perron move into a dilapidated farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island with their five daughters.
The next morning, Carolyn wakes up with a mysterious bruise. Over the next several days, various instances of paranormal disturbance occur, one of which is Carolyn noticing all clocks in the house stop at exactly 3:07. The activity culminates one night while Roger is away in Florida. After hearing various clapping, giggling, and seeing the picture frames shattered on the stairs, Carolyn is locked up in the cellar.
Carolyn contacts noted paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren for help. The Warrens conduct an initial investigation and conclude that the house may require an exorcism, but they needed authorization from the Catholic Church and further evidence before that.
While researching the history of the house, Ed and Lorraine discover that the house once belonged to an accused witch, Bathsheba, who tried to sacrifice her children to the devil and killed herself in 1863 after cursing all who would take her land. The property was once 200+ acres but has since been divided up into smaller parcels. They find reports of numerous murders and suicides in houses that have since been built upon parcels that were once part of the property.
Now is it true or just a scam to attract the public to the movie?
The real-life Perron family swears by their story, throwing their full weight behind the film and even appearing in some of The Conjuring's marketing materials. Andrea Perron one of the family members actually wrote a three part book on her experiences growing up on the farm called "House of Darkness, House of Light." Although she said the film was not based on her trilogy “House of Darkness House of Light”, it was, instead, based upon the case files of Ed & Lorraine Warren.
Andrea said that although she and Mrs. Warren both provided the studio with more information than they could handle, the screenwriters had much to pick & choose from. She says that the film 'The Conjuring' is a fair reflection of the chaos and danger they faced at the farm claiming that the movie stands alone as a work of art — not fiction.
The Warrens' (pictured on the left) 10,000-plus career cases include the alleged haunting depicted in The Conjuring. In 1971, Roger and Carolyn Perron moved into a colonial farmhouse in Harrisville, R.I., with their five daughters, and quickly began experiencing what they described as both haunting and spiritual possessions. They invited the Warrens to the farmhouse to investigate. Over the nine years they lived in the house, the Perrons described spirits, both harmless and angry, that "stunk of rotting flesh" and routinely arrived at 5:15 a.m. to levitate their beds.
The film has earned largely positive reviews from both critics and audiences alike. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 174 reviewers and judged 87% of the reviews to be positive with an average score of 7.2 out of 10. Its consensus reads: "Extremely well-crafted and gleefully creepy, The Conjuring ratchets up the dread with a series of smartly delivered, terribly effective old-school scares." Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 35 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film an A- grade.
After its initial run in theatres, the film turned out to be a box office hit by grossing over fifteen times its production budget with a worldwide total of $312,459,667.
Do you think its all real?
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