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
Vera Farmiga
Lorraine Warren
Patrick Wilson
Ed Warren
Madison Wolfe
Janet Hodgson
Frances O'Connor
Peggy Hodgson
Lauren Esposito
Margaret Hodgson
Benjamin Haigh
Billy Hodgson
Patrick McAuley
Johnny Hodgson
Sterling Jerins
Judy Warren
Bonnie Aarons
Demon Nun
Simon McBurney
Maurice Grosse
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Peggy Nottingham
Simon Delaney
Vic Nottingham
Franka Potente
Anita Gregory
Bob Adrian
Bill Wilkins
Steve Coulter
Father Gordon
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.
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