One of the best horror movies of the last decade, based on a chilling true story, can be seen on HBO Max

At some point we’re going to have to stop seeing the word-of-mouth horror hits as isolated phenomena and start appreciating the public interest in it. That all studios don’t have at least one department focused on consistently producing low- or mid-budget movies seems like a miscalculation on Hollywood’s part.

Big balls like ‘barbarian‘ either ‘Smile‘ are certainly preferable to the cheap revival of well-known franchises. Nothing against starting to make sequels in spades (if they are done well), but it would not be bad to do them with new films and with less baggage behind them. It is strange that not many have wanted to follow the school of ‘Warren File: The Conjuring‘, which she found for herself a new way to make a successful horror saga.

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The fascinating thing about Warren Universe it is the little essential that is the main line to start developing more films. Practically any badass element, be it a painting of a nun or a doll, can give for its own saga in the form of several spin-offs. And regardless of whether they are better or worse executed, they all work.

Although there is still a clear difference between the main films of The Warren File and the restthanks to that differential element that are the characters of Vera Farmiga Y patrick wilson, which add both an emotional solidity that many films of this style find expendable and a good dynamic in the form of Mulder and Scully beaten against the forces of the devil. It certainly helps to overlook the questionable real life that the Warrens of flesh and blood had.

But above all is still the original (available on HBO Max), that first film that continues to position itself as the best film of james wan and one of the best films of the past decade (and, therefore, of the century). Entering fully into the inexplicable events that a family suffered in Rhode Island in the early 70s, creates an awesome ghost story as chilling as devilishly entertaining.

‘Warren File: The Conjuring’: brilliant possession

After having developed muscle with different genre films, Wan achieves in ‘The Warren File: The Conjuring’ a very complete exercise, as dazzling for a more lucid staging than ever as wonderfully shameless in its way of elaborating situations and scares. With executional details that make her deliciously ’70s, she creates a whole perfect tribute to the classics of the cinema of possessions and haunted houses.

And although many would have put their emotional heart in the family that directly suffers the threat, the filmmakers very well propose giving that weight to the Warrens, who have become the anchor that has sustained at least three films of the zillion that have come out. this. It could be said that it is all a miracle, but it’s all too well thought out as for it. ‘The Warren File: The Conjuring’ is the kind of success you get when you don’t fuss and invest in commercially ambitious terror.