Ghost Wilkins spooks the family in the usual manner: noises, lights flickering, inanimate objects moving, TV trouble, etc. As Ed tells her, the Devil likes to kick you when you’re down. Life isn’t easy for Peggy, and her house is anything but warm and welcoming-even non-believers would deem it spooky-which makes her and her family an easy target for possession. The matriarch of the family, Peggy Hodgson (Frances O’Connor), is trying desperately to keep her head above financial waters, but her house is falling apart, her stuttering son (Benjamin Haigh) is being bullied at school, and her deadbeat husband left long ago, taking the records with him. The Conjuring 2, the follow-up to the massively successful-$318 million from a $20 mil budget-and formally astute Conjuring from 2013, is based on The Enfield Poltergeist or, as the marketing material touts, “the most documented case in paranormal history.” The Warrens are no stranger to demonic presences, but Lorraine had a premonition of Ed’s death connected with the Nun and is positively spooked. This time around, the Devil has taken two forms: Bill Wilkins (Bob Adrian), an old man who died in the house that the Hodgsons now reside in, and a Demonic Nun (Bonnie Aarons), who haunts both Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren. These two demonologists and agents of the Catholic Church found themselves attached to many supernatural cases-including The Amityville Haunting, an event that made several headlines at the time and continues to live on in infamy in several feature films and TV movies.Ĭritics of the Warrens decry their work as hoaxes, while many remain steadfast in their beliefs: the Devil is real, and demons walk among us. When it came to the paranormal, Ed and Lorraine Warren were the people to call.
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