“It’s 1977 and 11-year-old Janet Hodgson has been hearing voices.
“She’s the second-eldest of four kids, all living with their recently single mom Peggy in a low-rent, government-funded flat in north London.
“When the voices escalate into waking nightmares, physical attacks on Janet, and bone-chilling visitations from an elderly ghost, there’s only one husband-and-wife team of demon-busters the Hodgson family can call: Ed and Lorraine Warren, back for The Conjuring 2.
“When director James Wan chose to base the heroes of his 2013 horror blockbuster The Conjuring on real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, he took an obvious, unprecedented risk: that casting aside the horror film tradition of emphasizing European religious rites and mythos in favor of leaving the ghostbusting to an American couple of DIY exorcists from Connecticut would pay off.”
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