I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'The Conjuring' is incredibly effective and scary without the use of blood, gore, and death. It's a horror film that emphasizes atmosphere and suspense in the tradition of classics like 'Psycho' or 'The Others.'
The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.
For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.
I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
I hope people will like 'The Conjuring 2' because I think it is a very natural and organic progression of the first movie.
I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.
'The Conjuring' was a massive success, and honestly, it set the bar quite high. So I was nervous about making the sequel, and I wasn't sure if it will still have the same impact as the first one did. But that's what moved me to make the sequel.
Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.
I always say, what is cool for me with 'The Conjuring', is it's not just another scary set piece or another scary case; it's more about what I can do with the characters of Ed and Lorraine Warren.