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The Movie Review Nobody Asked For: The Conjuring

If you've seen one scary haunted house ghost movie, you've seen em all. Right? Scary movies, as of late, have been... waning. Let's face it. "Insidious" was just downright goofy. Did I spy Darth Maul torturing some guy's reflection? The closest thing we've gotten was "A Haunting in Connecticut" and even that one pulled its punches. Now I saw "Mama" twice in theaters but that was more artsy and wasn't really trying for the massive scares that this genre has been lacking as a whole. Not since the old classics like "Poltergeist",  "The Shining" and "The Exorcist" have ghost movies been truly terrifying. How do you fix a problem? Add realism. I don't know how many of you are huge dorks like me, but when something interests me, I dig into it. I do personal research on the subject until I know as much as I can about it. I first learned of the Warrens through a series of documentaries on History or one o