YMMV / The Conjuring

• Adaptation Displacement: The film is actually loosely inspired by a book written by the real Andrea Perron which detailed the hauntings.
• Awesome Music: The use of Time of the Season in the first movie is used stirringly as the family is settling into the house and the family members interact with each other in a calm before the storm way.
• Cliché Storm: The first film hits all the typical exorcism story beats—if you've seen either adaptation of The Amityville Horror, for example, you could predict the plot without much difficulty. The only real surprises are every ghost besides Bathsheba being completely benevolent and the fact that Bathsheba is apparently able to cooperate with the demon in the Annabelle doll. The sequel fares much better.
• Complete Monster: Bathsheba Sherman is a sadistic Satanist who, having tried and failed to sacrifice her own newborn son before her suicide, shows her devotion to Satan by possessing mothers to murder their own children before forcing their own suicides. Bathsheba torments the most recent family to inhabit her lands until the paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren arrive. When Bathsheba's attempts to drive them off fail, she heads to their house and frees a demon trapped in a doll named Annabelle so the two can murder the Warrens' young daughter. When she succeeds in distracting them, Bathsheba possesses the original family's mother to try to murder her own children and tries to drag the mother to death with her while being exorcised.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The haunted doll, Annabelle, was not as well-known to the public, but when The Conjuring was released, everyone fell in love with the doll. It may be the reason as to why the doll got her own spin-off film and a sequel to that spin-off film.
• Narm: The "Look what you made me do" scene can make some viewers chuckle due to being reminded of a certain Taylor Swift song.