The Sleepless Unrest: The Real Conjuring Home (2021)--My take on the movie with spoilers!

PLOT SUMMARY: A group of investigators make a documentary on the infamous Conjuring House. They soon encounter something sinister in the house.

Haunted houses have always been a topic of speculation. Do they really exist? Are the hauntings real? Or is it just the pipes? Or maybe the change in temperature is what causes wood to expand and contract, thus making a creaking sound.

The Conjuring was one of the creepiest haunted house stories because it was loosely based on true events. The Perrons, who lived there, experienced haunting from an angry spirit they believe was called Bathsheba. Ed and Lorraine Warren were called to investigate and they offered help.

The Perrons were freed from the spirits but they moved away and years later, the ownership of the house fell into new hands: Cory and Jennifer Heinzen.

The new owners allowed visitors to check out their haunted homes, and those who wanted to stay over were charged a fee.

Of course, there was going to be a documentary-style movie and of course, there was going to be a couple of investigators set up their gadgets and whatnot to "capture" the ghosts. But do they succeed?

The Sleepless Unrest: The Real Conjuring Home is dull in every aspect. You are made to expect a haunting or a peculiar instance at least. But what you get to see is...plain nothing.

It is just the characters telling us what they are experiencing rather than them showing us what is going on.

The investigators set up their things around the house, check out the basement and see snakeskin hanging around, and say they hear noises.

There is something about a battle taking place and a tombstone being found thanks to guidance by a voice on the radio.

The next night, none of the investigators can sleep...Sleepless Unrest, get it?

More talks of noises and shadows and photos coming out funny. None of them is creepy and at this point, I was really hoping for a great climactic scene.

Does it happen?

Nope.

The investigators spend most of the climax looking at lights in the forest and banging on trees and hearing something knockback.

Towards the end, they all return home and hope the ghosts don't follow them back.

But they do and in a way, the investigators probably wanted them to. One of them brought dirt from around the house, one brought a nail they found, and another stole a doll from the house as a keepsake.

What they get to keep is the bad energy that makes their beds vibrate and cause their children to cry about hearing weird noises.

It's the kind of movie that had so much potential to be scary but ends up being a damp squib.

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