everyone decided Janet was faking because they saw video of her trashing the kitchen. What about everything else that had occurred prior? The bite marks on her and her mother. Somehow being locked inside the bedroom with chain on the outside, being strangled by 'something'. The furniture moving by itself,etc,. Okay, we see video of you tipping over a table and throwing things and we're out?! So dumb. First conjuring was great, this one sucked.
shareLost me at crooked man
shareCrooked man was stupid as hell, I agree.
shareIt lost me when they decided to get off the train and do their american cavalry to the rescue act. The film makers wouldnt let the mother or the fat guy with the axe enter the house for the final battle as it would have taken some of the shine off the warrens rescue mission. LOL what a load of crap.
shareI agree OP. That's where the film flaked out for me as well.
I think that's what actually happened, though - I believe at some point, the real Janet and her sister said they were faking the voices and making their beds shake themselves, then later said they were coerced into claiming it was faked. I haven't seen the doc on the Enfield poltergeist, however, so I may be misremembering.
We as the audience see things that the characters can't see. So, WE know she's really being possessed, but individual characters are only witnesses to what happens to their own perspective. For example, we're watching Janet get tossed around the room from start to finish - however, the position she was in when that photo was taken shows her in a jumping position, and that's what the skeptics have to go by. I remember reading about the lengths "mediums" would go to during the Victorian era to bilk spiritualists out of money. They used trip wires, smoke machine type things which they projected images onto, etc.
For the record, I'm a skeptic, and am torn between the real Ed and Lorraine being complete shysters or suffering from some sort of shared delusional disorder where they interpret unrelated phenomena as being connected.
They're coming to get you, Barbara!
Right! Plus until she admitted that she was faking, I just thought that was part of the possession. I mean, after everything that's happened, how can anyone think this is a case of a child faking everything?
shareEverything that happened in that house was all what Janet and her mother saw/was saying. No one else saw anything.
They thought her mom was faking it as well.
This.
The bite marks could easily be faked.
The mom could have locked Janet in the room.
All they saw in the room was Janet holding the curtain around her own neck.