Is The Conjuring 2 Scary? The Verdict and the Whole Plot
Yes, 7 out of 10. It's a haunted house with plenty of jump scares and a family that nobody believes.
🐱THE SCARE SIGNAL
SCARE SCORE
7 /10
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DREAD LEVEL
Medium
You'll check the corner of the bedroom for a night or two, then recover.
DOG
Dog: fine
fine, no dog dies.
Ruling: Watch it before dark, because it is all jump scares and almost no gore.
The Conjuring 2 runs two hours and fourteen minutes. Ed and Lorraine Warren go to a house in Enfield, London, to decide whether a haunting is real or a hoax. Lorraine's last case left her with a vision she would rather not think about.
The premise, briefly
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to London to find out whether a girl named Janet Hodgson is really being haunted, or whether her family is faking it.
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How it ends
Lorraine finds the demon's name in her Bible, says it aloud and sends the demon back to Hell, which frees Janet. Ed and Lorraine both survive, and Ed adds a haunted toy from the Hodgson house to their collection at home.
The scene you're dreading
The standoff near the end, when a possessed Janet stands at a window and Ed has to catch her before she falls. It is the climax, it is tense, and everyone involved comes through it alive.
The dog
No dog dies in The Conjuring 2.
It's mostly jump scares and a recurring figure in a nun's habit, and once you know the family ends up safe, the loud moments are easier to take.
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How it ends, the scene you're dreading, what happens to the dog, and the bottom line. About twenty seconds to read.
What actually happens
A séance goes badly in a house with a reputation
In 1976, Ed and Lorraine Warren go to the Amityville house to work out whether a demon was really behind the DeFeo murders and the haunting the Lutz family reported afterward. During a séance, Lorraine slips into a vision. She sees a demonic nun, and she sees Ed get impaled. From then on she has been shown her husband's death in advance and would very much like to avoid it. A year later the Warrens are asked to look at a family in London.
In the Enfield area of London, the Hodgson family starts noticing strange things in their house after Janet, one of four kids in the family, plays with a ouija board. She begins sleepwalking and talking with the voice of an angry old man. When reporters try to interview the family, Janet is overtaken by that old man, who turns out to be Bill Wilkins, a man who used to live in the house and has since died in it. The Warrens are asked to judge whether the possession is a hoax. Lorraine is afraid that her vision of Ed is coming true. She has a second vision of the demonic nun, which tells her its name, and she scratches that name into her Bible while in a trance.
The investigators cannot agree on whether it's real
While staying with the Hodgson family, the Warrens talk with fellow investigators Maurice Grosse and Anita Gregory. Gregory has video of Janet wrecking the kitchen on purpose, which makes the haunting look fake. Ed and Lorraine can't tell whether the family is sincere or after attention, so they leave. Once they are gone they work out that Wilkins is only a puppet. The real force is the nun, who wants to break Janet's will, and who has also been blocking Lorraine's abilities so that she couldn't see what was going on. They turn around and go back.
Lightning picks the worst possible tree
This is the scene people dread, and here is what happens. When the Warrens get back to the Hodgson house, Janet is possessed and standing at a window, about to jump. Ed grabs her and almost goes over himself. Lightning hits the tree in the yard and leaves a stump, which is exactly the one that skewered Ed in the vision. Lorraine finds the Bible with the name she scratched into it, which is Valak. She says the name to the demon, which gives her authority over it, and she sends it back to Hell. Janet is released, and Lorraine pulls Janet and Ed to safety. Nobody dies in it.
The ending, explained
With the demon gone, Janet is free of the possession. Ed and Lorraine go home, and Ed adds a new item to their shelf of cursed objects: a Crooked Man zoetrope toy that belonged to Peggy's youngest child. He sets it down beside the Annabelle doll and a music box from an earlier case. Both Warrens survive, the vision of Ed's death does not happen, and the movie closes on that shelf.
The post-credits ruling
Nobody has confirmed whether there's a scene after the credits.
✓ Spoiled safelyDog status: fine, no dog dies.
Questions people ask at 1am
Is The Conjuring 2 scary?
Yes. The Conjuring 2 is a 7 out of 10 with a night of dread: it leans on well-timed jump scares and a demonic nun, with very little gore. Expect to check a few corners afterward.
How does The Conjuring 2 end?
Lorraine speaks the demon's name, which lets her send it back to Hell and free Janet from the possession. Ed and Lorraine survive, and Ed adds a haunted toy to their collection at home.
Does the dog die in The Conjuring 2?
No dog dies in The Conjuring 2.
Is there a post-credits scene in The Conjuring 2?
Nobody has confirmed whether The Conjuring 2 has a scene after the credits, so stay or leave as you like.
What is the demon in The Conjuring 2?
In The Conjuring 2 the demon takes the form of a nun, and its name is Valak. Lorraine writes the name in her Bible during a trance, then uses it later to gain control of the demon and send it back to Hell.
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