THE CONJURING - IL CASO ENFIELD

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THE CONJURING - IL CASO ENFIELD Movie

2016

(7,5 out of 10)
Horror (Thriller|Giallo)
2 h 14 min - 134 min
Directed by James Wan

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	Patrick Wilson
	Vera Farmiga
	Madison Wolfe
	Frances O'Connor

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1977. Durante una seduta spiritica la medium Lorraine Warren prova a entrare in contatto con l'autore della carneficina di Amityville per conoscere le ragioni del suo gesto, ma sul suo percorso soprannaturale imbatte in un demone che assume le sembianze di una suora. Intanto a Enfield, in Gran Bretagna, la famiglia Hodgson, in gravi ristrettezze economiche, vive in una casa in cui si susseguono eventi inspiegabili. La piccola Janet è la più sensibile verso queste presenze, che sembrano rivendicare la proprietà della casa minacciando gli attuali inquilini.  Destinata a divenire la più consistente franchise in campo horror degli ultimi anni, dopo uno spinoff così di successo da generare a sua volta un sequel, The Conjuring giunge all'atteso secondo capitolo. Protagonisti nuovamente i Warren e una casa infestata, nella libera ricostruzione del caso realmente esistito di Einfeld, l'Amityville britannica, uno dei principali casi dei tempi recenti per interesse parapsicologico.  James Wan non teme di ricorrere a ripetizioni e, nell'economia di una serie così strutturata, la cosa ha un senso. Al di là delle evidenti somiglianze sul piano narrativo, The Conjuring - Il caso Enfield diverge in molti punti rispetto al primo episodio. Dove L'evocazione - The Conjuring puntava sopratutto ai picchi orrorifici, mescolando influenze anni Settanta a nuove tecniche audiovideo di spavento, il sequel preferisce lavorare sulla costante inquietudine e provare a riflettere sulle regole del gioco, anziché applicarle nuovamente alla lettera.  I punti in cui The Conjuring - Il caso Enfield non eccelle e non intende eccellere - originalità della trama, accuratezza dell'ambientazione - sono chiaramente ritenuti minori da Wan, fino a rendere scene come quelle sui Warren in America, prima del loro viaggio in UK, ai limiti della goffaggine. O il ricorso a "London Calling" dei Clash, per introdurre la realtà degli Hodgson, uno dei più ovvi e inutilmente chiassosi utilizzi di una colonna sonora che la storia recente ricordi.  A Wan interessa soprattutto giocare con la macchina da presa - instancabile, svolazzante e ubiqua - sul canovaccio più usurato, per cercare un nuovo punto di vista e una nuova forma di sensazione orrorifica. Sebbene gli incubi della lanterna magica, dell'uomo "storto" o di quella che pare una possessione demoniaca ricordino innumerevoli predecessori, la tecnica con cui vengono riproposti riesce, in parte, a infondere loro nuova vita. Fatta eccezione per qualche scivolone nel digitale, Wan si mantiene in equilibrio sul confine del non visibile: "vedere" e accettare una verità soprannaturale diventano una cosa sola, come esemplificato dalla magistrale sequenza in cui Janet sembra posseduta dall'anziano Bill ma la macchina da presa resta su Warren e sul mutamento della sua espressione, anziché sondare l'ignoto.   Peccato che un esito prevedibile e una prolissità ingiustificabile vanifichino buona parte degli sforzi della regia, restituendo al termine di The Conjuring - Il caso Enfield una sensazione di affaticamento da accumulo di segni anziché di autentico terrore o inquietudine. Ma la serie tiene, il pubblico ha quello che vuole e si parla già di uno spinoff dedicato al nuovo villain.

When Ed and Grosse walk to their car, the rest of the foreground from the 1970s depiction of England shows a couple recent modeled cars driving by. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the establishing shots of London the song London Calling by The Clash is heard.The film is set in the year 1977 but this song was not released until December 1979. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the montage of London shots at the start of the film, the shot of Trafalgar Square clearly shows it filled with modern cars and buses. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the hallway scene after the girl ties herself to the bed and wakes to the door banging, she opens the door and calls out in the hallway. The next shot with the board games on the bookcase, the game Bonkers can be clearly seen, however the game was not released until 1978 a year after the film is set. <br>------------------------<br><br>The registration plate of the white Ford Cortina estate car is shown as HN08EHX which would mean it was first registered in the first half of 2008, though the film takes place in 1977. Strange that they didn't use it's actual plate as it clearly is a 1970s car. <br>------------------------<br><br>When we first see England in the year 1977, the Hollies' pop hit "Bus Stop" is heard. That song was released in 1966 and would not have been part of the sound or mood of the late 1970s. <br>------------------------<br><br>The width of the wall between the front outside door and the bay windows varies between shots. The wall width of the actual location shot is roughly five times smaller than the studio shot. This is noticeable throughout the entire film and is highlighted by the placement of the old leather chair and the size of the hallway. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Maurice Grosse speaks with the possessing spirit Bill, the spirit plays the knock, knock game. Maurice is recorded as clearly pausing for a second or so before saying in a flat tone with a falling inflection "very well, who's there". But when the recording is later played by Father Gordon to the Warrens, Maurice is heard responding almost immediately to Bill and with a rising inflection in the voice when saying "very well, who's there". Even allowing for frequency shifts due to tape-recorder play back speed, there shouldn't be an inflection change unless the played-back version is a different recording altogether. <br>------------------------<br><br>Hatchet marks are already visible on the door when Vic Nottingham arrives to chop through it. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the middle of the movie during a non ghost activity kitchen shot the Pyrex bowl on the top shelf moves slightly from one shot to the next. You can see the full frontal pattern in majority of the movie, however, it moves slightly, revealing where there is no pattern visible on the bowl. <br>------------------------<br><br>The red napkin in Ed Warren's hand disappears and reappears several times while he sits at the breakfast table. <br>------------------------<br><br>While Ed performs "Can't Help Falling in Love With You" a crew member can be seen in the reflection of the glass cabinet. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Ed is playing the Elvis song there's an unexplained arm visible in the reflection of the glass in the corner of the room. The arm is visible for around 1 or 2 seconds. <br>------------------------<br><br>In multiple shots looking down Green Street there is a crossroads in the distance with a large red coloured raised speed table covering the entire junction. The real Green Street does not have this feature. The movie was actually filmed several miles away on a back street near Enfield Town. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the scene where Janet is home sick from school, after she hangs up the phone with her mom who called to check on her, she uses the remote to flip back to the station she was watching, and the first station she flips to reveals an adult Jon Bon Jovi in mid-song. Since the story did not take place until 1977, Jon Bon Jovi would have been only 14 to 15 years old, a full 6 years before being discovered. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the sound operator, sent by the polytechnic, is recording various sounds around the house, he points his microphone at an open door leading to the garden. He picks up the sound of crickets chirping. Since this is North London in late December, the chances of hearing crickets are virtually impossible. <br>------------------------<br><br>Near the beginning of the film, Janet and her brothers and sister are seen leaving Enfield Grammar school. This school has always been and still is, an all-boys secondary school. So not only would Janet and Margaret not be allowed to attend, neither would their brothers are they were both too young. <br>------------------------<br><br>No council house in Enfield has a cellar like that. <br>------------------------<br><br>The song Lorraine plays on an LP at the end of the movie is on Track 5 of Side One of that album, but the needle in the shot is on Track 1. <br>------------------------<br><br>Fireplaces in the house are not those of a 1930's British house, they are the wrong size (more USA dimensions). You'll never see a British tiled fireplace quite like that. <br>------------------------<br><br>The scenes outside the school are filmed in present day. The school sign is showing an 11 digit telephone number with an area code starting with 012. The 01 prefix was not implemented until 1995. <br>------------------------<br><br>In an opening montage of London images, a headline regarding the Battle of Lewisham is shown on a newspaper dated September 10, 1977. That incident actually occurred August 13, 1977. <br>------------------------<br><br>The movie opens with the Clash's song "London Calling", released in December, 1979. The movie takes place two years before the song's release. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Lorraine is marking up the Bible, Kitty Kelly's biography of Nancy Reagan can be seen on the bookshelf. That book was not written until 1991. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Ed goes to retrieve Janet from the closet, he burns his left forearm on a hot pipe. When he eventually gets her out and falls to the ground, the burn mark isn't there. Then, in a later scene, the burn mark appears. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Ed paints the photograph of the witch in the beginning, the painting and his paint brush is completely dry even as he was already painting it.. <br>------------------------<br><br>The house portrayed in this movie is a typical rented Council house found in the UK. In the first scene with Peggy Hodgson when she is talking on the telephone she asks 'How am I going to pay my rent this month?', but later in the movie when Ed Warren asks her where the old chair came from, she said her ex-husband bought all the furniture with the house. Her ex-husband couldn't have bought the house as local councils didn't sell their properties in the 1970's. Also, local councils didn't supply any furniture when a house was re-let. Anything left behind by a previous occupant would have been disposed of before any new tenant moved in. <br>------------------------<br><br>At the end of the film, Ed gives Janet a religious pendant for protection. He should have given it to her as soon as he believed she might be in danger. The pendant helps him repel the demon the first time it's encountered, but then he takes the pendant with him and leaves the girl vulnerable. Also, with the demon returned to Hell and the Ouija board that summoned it destroyed, the pendant is useless and wasted on someone who no longer needs it. <br>------------------------<br><br>The layout of the house is very unusual for a UK property of this age. At the top of stairs is the bathroom with a bedroom at back, front of house has small bedroom over stairs and larger bedroom to right of it. Also the rooms are way oversized for the style off house they show at beginning of movie. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the scene near the end, at the climax of the film, when Ed is holding onto Janet for dear life outside her bedroom window, as Lorraine rushes over and pulls them back into the house, 'Janet' is a dummy. It's so obvious, it makes this very tense seen almost laughable. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the girl is hanging from the ceiling her hair is following what gravity normally does. This gives away that the set is actually upside down and she is really on the floor. If she were stuck to the ceiling her hair would've been down on her face. <br>------------------------<br><br>Just like the Conjuring, the movie shows the Warrens' young daughter. However their daughter was born during WWII and would have been a grown adult by then, not a pre-teenager as shown in the film. <br>------------------------<br><br>