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July 19, 2013

'Conjuring' scares up old-school horror

By JAKE COYLE
AP Entertainment Writer

As sympathetic, methodical ghostbusters Lorraine and Ed Warren, Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson make the old-fashioned haunted-house horror film “The Conjuring” something more than your average fright fest.

In 1971, they come to the Perrons' swampy, musty Rhode Island farmhouse — newly purchased from the bank — to investigate the demonic spirit that has begun terrorizing the couple and their five daughters — a working class family who thought they had clawed their way into a rustic dream house.


 
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