I was watched this movie with my siblings a few months ago. For me, this movie was full of suspend.
The Movie
A family is beset by a series of wrathful wraiths after
they move into a colonial farmhouse. When the ghosts begin to target
their young daughters, they hire a pair of paranormal investigators to
end the haunting once and for all.
The True Story
The Conjuring poster boldly proclaims that it's
"based on the true case files of the Warrens." So who are the Warrens,
anyway? The real-life couple, Ed and Lorraine (played in the film by
Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson), were American paranormal investigators
that founded the New England Society for Psychic Research in 1952.
The Warrens' 10,000-plus career cases include the alleged haunting depicted in The Conjuring.
In 1971, Roger and Carolyn Perron moved into a colonial farmhouse in
Harrisville, R.I., with their five daughters, and quickly began
experiencing what they described as both haunting and spiritual
possessions. They invited the Warrens to the farmhouse to investigate.
Over the nine years they lived in the house, the Perrons described
spirits, both harmless and angry, that "stunk of rotting flesh" and
routinely arrived at 5:15 a.m. to levitate their beds.
So how much of that is true? The real-life Perron family
swears by their story, throwing their full weight behind the film and
even appearing in some of The Conjuring's marketing materials.
"Because I was the youngest and the most vulnerable, I was approached
more than anyone, and I actually had a relationship with that [ghostly]
boy," said April Perron in a trailer promoting the film.
Of course, there are plenty of people who doubt the story. Steven Novella, the president of the New England Skeptical Society, told USA Today that
"there is absolutely no reason to believe there is any legitimacy" to
the Warrens' reports on the Perron haunting—or, for that matter, to any
of the Warrens' cases.
