

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Direction
James Wan's camera moves like it knows something you don't.
Practical Effects
That crooked man puppet — practical effects that scar children.
Acting
Vera Farmiga's thousand-yard stare should win awards.

Director
James Wan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Valak the demon nun was a late addition; James Wan sketched her during reshoots after feeling the film needed a unifying antagonist. She got her own spinoff franchise because of course she did.
The real Enfield haunting remains one of Britain's most documented paranormal cases, though investigators caught the children faking incidents — the film wisely sidesteps this to preserve its 'true story' framing.