I like those movies too. That's why this disappointed me so much, because those movies actually scare me. I think it would have been better had it been taken completely from the Perrons' point of view.
Guess what, the "True Story" of The Conjuring is complete crap. From a CBS News Online article:
"(Andrea Perron) lived there from 1971 to 1980" "The movie makes it seem like everything happened in a short amount of time, but in reality these events occurred over their 10-year stay in the farmhouse."
Yeah, that's not at all the way the movie tells the story.
"She explained that eventually the family brought in Ed and Lorraine Warren, who were known as demonologists or paranormal investigators, and they seemed to make things worse."
Again, not at all the way the movie portrays the situation. The movie portrays the Warrens as the saviors (ahem) of the family who got rid of the demons/ghosts in a relatively short period of time. I've also read that no exorcism was ever performed in the Perron house, by the Warrens or anyone else.
So even if you buy the idea that the Perron family was haunted (which I don't, being a thinking human being), the movie is still complete horse****. And all it took me was a simple Google search to find this out. Yet everyone and their mother is buying this total crock as a "true story". I wonder what it's like to be so unquestioning.
The Warrens are self-serving scam artists, and the filmmakers bought their bull**** hook, line and sinker. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a society that increasingly doesn't believe in facts, science and history is buying it too.
Also, if anyone's interested in the true story of the Amityville Horror, I highly recommend the book "Based on a True Story" by Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen. They actually did what journalists used to call "research".
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-5 ... use-movie/