The Conjuring 2 (2016)


director: James Wan
release-year: 2016
genres: horror
countries: USA
languages: English
fests: SHOCKtober 2025: The Conjuring

It's The Conjuring again, and… well, yeah, they basically just made The Conjuring again. Normal haunted house with a demon, you know the drill.

The power of christ never does much

Old guy died in a chair, demon nun lurking in the shadows, visions of Ed being impaled through the chest by a tree. Rinse and repeat, toss in some children for effect.

Not really a chair worth haunting

The haunted family has basically an entire freaking river flowing through their basement, and nobody addresses how bad that is for the foundation. Insect-borne disease would also be a concern.

I don't remember why it needed a basement river

This demon is defeated by saying it's name, a dumb TV trope. Lorraine happens to have its name written down from a previous scene that didn't particularly make much sense, but was very important to make the conclusion not look like a totally arbitrary deus ex machina. Alas.

Beetlejuice?