User blog comment:CrashingCymbal/Your favourite Horror Movie ever?/@comment-18422878-20130911000352/@comment-5643552-20130911135753

I thought The Conjuring was kinda lame. It felt like a rehash of The Exorcist and Poltergeist, only not as scary/creepy. The photography was great, but the story was... meh. In terms of 'scariness', I recall a few cheap jump scares here and there, and that's about it.