It starts with a doll. Wide glassy eyes, grinning eerily into the camera. We listen to the story of a mere child’s play object, a symbol of displaced love, affection, and desire that becomes twisted and corrupted into an object of deceit, jealously and malice by dark spirits. In a nutshell, this is the story at the core of The Conjuring, a tale of displaced joy and attention that so steeply turns from playful to deadly. This is the story of the real life Perron family whose love for their new home, joy for new life sours into hatred and fear.