
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Simon McBurney, Franka Potente, Frances O’Connor, Madison Wolfe, Shannon Kook
OUR RATING: ★★★★½
Story:
Horror sequel directed and co-written by James Wan. Inspired by a true story, The Conjuring 2 (2016) follows paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) as they travel to Northern suburb of London, England in 1977 to help single mother Peggy Hodgson (Frances O’Connor) and her four children, particularly daughter Janet (Madison Wolfe), when their happy home life is turned on its head after their house is plagued by malicious spirits.
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'I know what it's like to lose your friends because you're different.' - Lorraine Warren (The Conjuring 2) Click To Tweet
Best Quotes
Lorraine Warren: After everything we’ve seen there isn’t much that rattles either of us anymore. But this one, this one still haunts me.
Lorraine Warren: Ed, this is as close to hell as I ever want to get.
Ed Warren: [referring to his painting of the creepy nun] Hey, I know I’m no Picasso, but I didn’t think it was that bad. We need to stop.
Bill Wilkins: [Ed and Lorraine Warren are listening to a recording with Maurice Grosse] This is my home. Get out of the house!
Maurice Grosse: No, this is not your house. Now what’s your name?
Bill Wilkins: Knock, knock.
Maurice Grosse: Very well. Who’s there?
Bill Wilkins: Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill.
Maurice Grosse: Bill who?
Bill Wilkins: My name is Bill Wilkins and I’m seventy-two years-old.
Father Gordon: [stops the tape] What do you make of that voice?
Ed Warren: Sounds confused, is he senile?
Father Gordon: The voice on this tape is coming from an eleven year-old girl. They’re calling England’s Amityville. There is a family that desperately needs our help.
Maurice Grosse: This is Peggy. Peggy Hodgson.
Ed Warren: Nice to meet you. Ed Warren.
Peggy Hodgson: How do you do?
Ed Warren: This is my wife, Lorraine.
Peggy Hodgson: How do you do?
Vic Nottingham: Hello.
Lorraine Warren: Hello.
Vic Nottingham: Well I’ll be off then, Peg.
Peggy Hodgson: Will you tell the kids I said hello?
Vic Nottingham: Yeah, of course will.
Vic Nottingham: [to Ed and Lorraine] Nice to meet you.
Lorraine Warren: You too, hon.
Maurice Grosse: So here we are, Peggy.
Peggy Hodgson: Right, do come in.
[she opens the front door to her house and the all enter]
Peggy Hodgson: It’s just me and Janet here now. My other kids are staying with them. This is where the girls used to sleep, but we don’t use it anymore.
Ed Warren: Why not?
Maurice Grosse: [as Peggy is about to answer Maurice interrupts and answers] Well most of the activity centered in this room, we were quite afraid that someone might get hurt which is why we keep it locked.
Ed Warren: I understand that Janet has levitated. Did that happen in here as a well?
Peggy Hodgson: Yeah.
Maurice Grosse: Yeah, more than once. And we’ve got photographs of that as well.
Ed Warren: [Peggy looks frustrated as Maurice interrupts her again] I’d like to her Mrs. Hodgson’s story from her if you don’t mind.
Peggy Hodgson: [referring the girls bedroom wall being covered in crosses] The neighbors donated them and I hung them up hoping they’d keep things from moving around.
Ed Warren: Has it worked?
Peggy Hodgson: No. we can hear it all night.
Reporter: [the Janet and Margaret are being interviewed] How does it feel living in a haunted house?
Margaret Hodgson: You don’t get used to it. We was just a normal family before all this.
Janet Hodgson: It’s been getting worse since Mr. Grosse starting talking to you.
Reporter: I wonder what would happen if we tried talking to it now? Is anybody there? Is anybody there who wishes to communicate?
Reporter: [suddenly the lights in the house to dim and Janet start to breathe heavy] Janet?
Janet Hodgson: [acting as if she’s possessed] Janet’s asleep and I’m talking.
Maurice Grosse: What is your name?
Janet Hodgson: This is my home. Get out now!
Lorraine Warren: Do you know why I’m here? Well, your mom has told me about what’s been going on and I’m here to help, if I can. Would you like to talk about it? You know, when I was about your age, um, I was visiting my mom at a hospital and I saw an angel. Yeah. It was standing next to a little boy’s bed. It was just gently touching his cheek and then it stopped, and it looked right at me. Of course, my mom and the nurses did not believe me, but I knew it was real. Look, I know how it is. I know what it’s like to lose your friends because you’re different. But I also know that one person can change everything. And you just have to open up to them.
Janet Hodgson: How did you know you could trust the people you opened up to?
Lorraine Warren: I didn’t. Sometimes I got hurt, and it took a long time, but I finally found someone who believed me.
Janet Hodgson: What did you do then?
Lorraine Warren: I married him.
Lorraine Warren: Do you know when the voice is going to speak?
Janet Hodgson: Sometimes.
Lorraine Warren: And when it does, does it feel like it’s coming from inside you?
Janet Hodgson: No. more like it’s coming from behind me, like I’m being used.
Lorraine Warren: Does it ever say things just to you, that only you can hear? What does it say?
Janet Hodgson: It said it wants to hurt you.
Lorraine Warren: When did it say that?
Janet Hodgson: Right now.
Harry Whitmark: [after Ed hypnotises Janet in order to speak to the spirit haunting her] Janet, are you alright? Janet?
Janet Hodgson: Mmm.
Harry Whitmark: Janet. Janet, are you feeling alright?
Bill Wilkins: [we see the shadow of Wilkins appear sitting where Janet is sat] Stop calling me Janet!
Ed Warren: Isn’t that your name?
Bill Wilkins: Janet’s asleep, and I’m talking.
Ed Warren: Well, what should I call you? What is your name?
Bill Wilkins: You don’t belong here. My name is Maurice Grosse.
Ed Warren: Who are you?
Bill Wilkins: This is my home. Get out now!
Ed Warren: No, this is not your house.
Ed Warren: Now, what’s your name?
Bill Wilkins: Knock, knock.
Ed Warren: Very well. Who’s there?
Bill Wilkins: Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill.
Ed Warren: Bill who?
Bill Wilkins: My name is Bill Wilkins and I’m seventy-two years-old.
Ed Warren: Where do you come from?
Bill Wilkins: I come from the grave.
Ed Warren: How did you die?
Bill Wilkins: I went blind and had a hemorrhage. And I fell asleep and I died in the chair in the corner.
Ed Warren: Why have you come here?
Bill Wilkins: I like to hear them scream.
Peggy Hodgson: Why don’t you just leave us alone?
Bill Wilkins: Shut up, you old cow!
Peggy Hodgson: [Bill leaves and we see Janet again] Janet, darling. Darling, are you alright?
Janet Hodgson: I’m sorry.
Peggy Hodgson: She’s such a good girl, what does it want with her?
Lorraine Warren: An oppressing spirit will try to enforce you to commit the ultimate sin.
Peggy Hodgson: And what’s that?
Lorraine Warren: Murder, suicide, or both.
Peggy Hodgson: [to Ed and Lorraine] You believe us, don’t you?
Ed Warren: Are you sensing a presence?
Lorraine Warren: I’m not sensing anything. All I can sense is their own fear.
Ed Warren: Lorraine, honey, you’re bleeding! What is happening?
Lorraine Warren: I had a premonition of your death. Something inhuman wants to kill you. If we keep doing this, you’re going to die.
Margaret Hodgson: [pointing to the ghost of a nun standing in their hallway] Who’s that?
Lorraine Warren: Their family is just a pawn.
Crooked Man: There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse And they all lived together in a little…
Lorraine Warren: Ed!
Ed Warren: Your name gives me dominion over you, demon, and I do know your name! You are Valak! The defiler! The profane, the marquis of snakes! In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, I condemn you back to hell!
Lorraine Warren: No! Ed!
Janet Hodgson: You saved us.
Lorraine Warren: Didn’t I tell you it was meant to be?
Janet Hodgson: But you believed in me.
Lorraine Warren: I couldn’t have done it without you.
Janet Hodgson: Thanks for coming back for us.
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