Surprise! Siti does a review on a horror movie, which she gave a warning about weeks earlier. Yes, everyone, it’s The Conjuring. But this review is going to be slightly different only because I didn’t watch the whole movie. I just came upon it when I was doing my rounds of Eid visits. Yes, I’m a Muslim and we’re currently celebrating the break of fasting month. So, briefly, here in Singapore, we will visit our relatives’ houses, eat, gossip a lot and then seek forgiveness. Anyway, so one of my relatives was playing the movie and we ended up watching it. But we left halfway through the movie or so. But I decided to still write a review of sorts about it since, well, I did watch it and got a gist of it from what I have watched through the gaps between my fingers.

The movie has all the elements of a scary movie in it. It’s not the typical horror movie, which you ended up screaming and shouting abuses on the screen going: “Why did you even go into that dark alley/school/place/etc when you know you’re gonna get killed by a supernatural being, you idiot?” It doesn’t reveal the ghost yet. What it did was it creates the sense of fear in the characters and the audience alike. What you don’t see, don’t know but yet feel gives a sense of creepiness. And then it gradually builds from there. You’ll see little sudden things that will make the audience scream and then finally, once it knows the audience is creeped out enough, it will reveal the supernatural being that’s been haunting the characters. Not like the little sudden things you see make you paranoid already, y’know. And then the story just kicks off from there.

After the ghost was revealed, my family and relatives, unfortunately, had to leave to visit another house. But what we watched was enough to make one of my nieces cry and my aunt to get on all fours and crawl to my other relative and lay down in a foetal position, shielding her eyes from the TV screen. As for me, let me just put it simply as this: if someone decides to clap their hands from behind me, I shall not be held liable for punching the person’s face. And I’m not gonna play hide and seek with my nephews and nieces ever again.

So, should you watch it? Well, if you’re not easily scared and if you don’t have any health issues, you can watch it. But again, let me stress that if you have health issues especially high blood pressure, please be mindful. Do not watch it if you know you can’t take it. The fact that it’s based on true events is enough to scare you. It’s not a fictional story. It’s true. It happened.

Trailer…

(I’m not gonna be posting the trailer here. I do not want any of you punching your computer screens)