I started the film on Netflix quite impartially and without great expectations. I had seen Conjuring 1 once, part 2 not at all, and generally I did not know that this was supposed to be a kind of coherent franchise. The film got off to a very promising start - an abandoned monastery in the middle of Romania, home to some ancient devil-conjuring. The characters are mostly decals without much character development across the length of the film. At the beginning, the priest made a good impression of a solid exorcist personality, but became increasingly anxious because of his perceived powerlessness against evil. The characterization of the young, mostly inexperienced nun is cliché-olé and not worth mentioning. The young Franco-Canadian (sic) is still the most exciting figure, one expects his death right at the beginning. In the first two thirds of the film there are several beautiful jumpscare scenes that have frightened me, even if they were expected in tension. The effects are good, only the idea that all figures except the three mentioned are part of this creepy charade can be gotten very quickly at the beginning and you will not be able to get rid of it later until it is dissolved. If you like beautiful scare effects and like to be scared, you can definitely see the film. Only in the last third do you fight quite openly against the evil in the monastery and the shock effect quickly subsides due to the frequency of the effects. 5/10
Review by CthalinVIP BlockedParent2020-05-13T08:39:33Z
I started the film on Netflix quite impartially and without great expectations. I had seen Conjuring 1 once, part 2 not at all, and generally I did not know that this was supposed to be a kind of coherent franchise. The film got off to a very promising start - an abandoned monastery in the middle of Romania, home to some ancient devil-conjuring.
The characters are mostly decals without much character development across the length of the film. At the beginning, the priest made a good impression of a solid exorcist personality, but became increasingly anxious because of his perceived powerlessness against evil. The characterization of the young, mostly inexperienced nun is cliché-olé and not worth mentioning. The young Franco-Canadian (sic) is still the most exciting figure, one expects his death right at the beginning.
In the first two thirds of the film there are several beautiful jumpscare scenes that have frightened me, even if they were expected in tension. The effects are good, only the idea that all figures except the three mentioned are part of this creepy charade can be gotten very quickly at the beginning and you will not be able to get rid of it later until it is dissolved. If you like beautiful scare effects and like to be scared, you can definitely see the film. Only in the last third do you fight quite openly against the evil in the monastery and the shock effect quickly subsides due to the frequency of the effects. 5/10