And then… it turned out to be a cracking adventure film, with Brad Pitt trekking all over the world, staying just ahead of the oncoming zombie horde, to find a way to save humanity from this latest apocalypse. The trailers betrayed virtually no connection to the source material (something the film bore out). Video: Empire Meets The Cast Of The Conjuring 44 KILL YOUR DARLINGSĬast: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, Peter Capaldiīest for: making Brad Pitt-lemonade from troubled-shoot lemons. The unlikely sounding The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist (what next? The Tottenham Hale Terrors?) is also based on a true story and will be with us in the next year or two. The rich period detail, creepy doll prelude and Lili Taylor going all Linda Blair were highlights, but James ‘Saw’ Wan offered an Edgar Allen Poe-y sense of the macabre and the story rattled along at a whip. It rolled the true-life Amityville murders – for pity’s sake, don’t ever move somewhere that has ‘Amity’ in the name – into a scarefest that blew icy breath down our necks and went “BOO!” all at the same time. Cast: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingstone, Lili Taylor, Hayley McFarland, Joey Kingīest for: things that went bump in the night – and often the day too.Ī monster box office hit, The Conjuring came from nowhere to scare $316m out of moviegoers around the world.
