I'm currently watching the entire _Annabelle/Conjuring_ franchise and so far, this has been the absolute best of the lot. Keep in mind this is not a "horror" movie in the sense of a lot of killing and gore, but it's definitely creepy and I loved it for that reason. As a standalone, _The Conjuring_ does an excellent job in and of itself, without the need for any of the other movies. The acting was well-done, the soundtrack was pensive and foreboding enough (and didn't drown out everything else), but there were still plenty of moments that left you scratching your head wondering why it took them so long to figure out something was major whacked with that whole place. Who in the cat hair moves his entire family into a new house without (1) ensuring that the furnace works properly and (2) going through the entire place and its history...so as not to discover some weird buried cellar full of someone else's trash? Anyways, it was still a decent movie; undoubtedly the story was considerably embellished for Hollywood's glamorization of demonic possession, but if you can watch it as a good "creepy" movie and appreciate the fact that it _was_ based on actual events...I would definitely recommend this one.