The Conjuring
Reception

The Conjuring (2013)

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7.7
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 1,052,030 votes
8.1/10 407,248 votes Synced 2026-08-07
7.5/10 630,529 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 7.8/10 1,197 votes Synced 2026-07-19
Critics 6.8/10 Synced 2026-07-19
Audience 8.3/10 Synced 2026-07-18
Critics 8.6/10 Synced 2026-07-18
7.5/10 13,056 votes Synced 2026-09-16

External reviews

Peter Hartlaub · San Francisco Chronicle 100.00/100.00

I'd be shocked if we see a better horror film in 2013.

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Manohla Dargis · The New York Times 90.00/100.00

The dread gathers and surges while the blood scarcely trickles in The Conjuring, a fantastically effective haunted-house movie.

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Claudia Puig · USA Today 88.00/100.00

The net result is an entertainingly frightening film that keeps the audience in a state of alarmed, but eager, anticipation.

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Chris Nashawaty · Entertainment Weekly 91.00/100.00

Wan masterfully tightens the vise on the audience's nerves, using mood and sound effects for shocks that never feel cheap (the harmless kids' game of hide-and-clap has never been so bloodcurdling).

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A.A. Dowd · The A.V. Club 83.00/100.00

As an exercise in classical scare tactics, delivered through an escalating series of primo setpieces, The Conjuring is often supremely effective.

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James Berardinelli · ReelViews 88.00/100.00

The pervasive aura of creepiness more than compensates for the low body count and inventive use of sharp instrumentation.

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Joshua Rothkopf · Time Out 100.00/100.00

Like the wood-grained farmhouse itself — a beautiful piece of production design by Julie Berghoff — The Conjuring has an analog solidity that makes the terror to come almost unbearable.

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Michael Phillips · Chicago Tribune 88.00/100.00

The movie belongs to the women, for once, and The Conjuring doesn't exploit or mangle the female characters in the usual ways. Farmiga, playing a true believer, makes every spectral sighting and human response matter; Taylor is equally fine, and when she's playing a "hide-and-clap" blindfold game with her girls, she's like a kid herself, about to get the jolt of her life.

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William Goss · Film.com 80.00/100.00

Wan has marshaled his crack sense of supernatural menace into making his most satisfying scare story yet.

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Justin Chang · Variety 90.00/100.00

A sensationally entertaining old-school freakout and one of the smartest, most viscerally effective thrillers in recent memory.

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