The Enfield Poltergeist

Before watching this T.V. series I liked entertaining the idea that these events maybe did happen. Especially since the Conjuring universe made them seem scary. As a child, I used to suffer sleep paralysis. I saw a lot of frightening images, experience a lot of ludic dreaming. For a great deal of my life, I had lucid dreams where some invisible entity attacked me. I wouldn't know I was sleeping until I woke up. The attacks stopped when I started wrestling back against my invisible attacker. I've grown to be skeptical over the years, yet a part of me is always drawn to stories like these to maybe convince myself there's was something more at play than just my sleeping disorder. At 40 I still can't sleep with the lights off. However, this t.v. series did nothing to convince of the paranormal. Actually, it reaffirms my belief that there isn't anything paranormal that can't be looked at through psychology. The true horror here are the aspects that weren't explore: the psychology of the girls and what was potentially going on in the house. The real disturbing story is what is hidden underneath the surface, because there is clearly a child desperately crying for attention. The guy who did the investigation is a charlatan who used the family for some personal gain and resorted to physical and psychological abuse to get the girls to perform for him (e.g. him tapping the girl's mouth closed while she has water inside it while forcing her to perform her demonic voice so that he could continue sell his credibility). This would have been a more convincing series if it would have psycho-analyzed the behavior of those at play.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]