At the beginning, I had high hopes for the conjuring universe. However with each movie that gets run through the cookie cutter, those expectations have been crushed. I'm now without any sense of excitement that these movies should have been able to give me and those of us who love the chance to see great horror.

It's not just this movie that has missed the mark, but the last several. Especially the Annabelle movies in particular.

Why do they insist on throwing together a mindless exercise in lazy scares acted out by kids we have no reason to care for in any way? Instead we get Ed and Lorraine at the beginning for the minimum amount of time just to make sure we know it is a conjuring universe set up, just to see them conveniently depart until the very end.

Nothing against the young actors, they are decent enough, but you always know they are never in any real danger whatsoever, because they don't kill the kids off in these movies, they always make it through unscathed. The outcome is always the same.

So I say, just the adults for once, and leave us guessing right until the end who is going to live or die or worse. At least we have a chance to be surprised.