'The Conjuring 2' Trailer: The Ghost Hunters Become the Hunted
In 2013, Saw director James Wan made a killing scaring audiences silly in 2013 with the $318-million grossing The Conjuring, a compendium of familiar horror frights that were based on the exploits of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga). Given that the film already spawned a spin-off (2014’s spooky doll saga Annabelle), it was only a matter of time before Warner Bros. went digging through the Warrens’ files to come up with another reality-based case around which to base a scary movie. Now, we have our first look at what they’ve unearthed above.
As evidenced by the debut trailer for The Conjuring 2, Wan’s follow-up will take its married-couple protagonists across the pond to England several years after the first movie. There, they’ll investigate the British variation of The Amityville Horror, via the plight of a young girl who’s suffering some sort of unholy possession by the specter of a not-very-nice 72-year-old man. As creepy as that is, the haunting may in fact just be a trap set to lure Ed into the clutches of the undead — who, it appears, will be manifesting themselves as tall, ghoulish nuns with a pesky habit of materializing out of thin air behind unsuspecting victims.
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The Conjuring 2 doesn’t haunt theaters until June 10, 2016, but for now, get a sneak peak at the face-grabbing, door-slamming, cross-turning, swing-swinging supernatural mayhem.
