Review – The Conjuring 2

When I first learned that they were making a movie out of the exploits of Ed and Lorraine Warren, I was afraid that it would turn out to be a petulant defense of the couple’s discredited exorcism operation. They wisely bypassed the issue in the first one and unwisely took it up here. This outing finds the Warrens journeying to London to do battle with an evil presence bedeviling a single mom and her kids. The plot is primarily driven by the mystery surrounding the nature of the antagonist. It’s a ghost. It’s a demon pretending to be a ghost. It’s a child pretending to be a demon pretending to be a ghost. It’s a … well, by the end I didn’t care what it was as long as it was over. See if desperate