Having solved the Amityville Horror – before the💮 opening credits – real-life paranormal investigators Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) and Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson) face their most batshit challenge yet: “England's Amityville”, better know📖n as the Enfield Poltergeist.

With barely a British accent among them, single mum Peggy Hodgson (Frances O'Connor) and her broo🍰d (including talented newcomer Madison Wolfe) face just⭕ about every form of supernatural manifestation imaginable, most notably a nasty old man haunting one of their armchairs (nobody suggests just throwing it out), but could it all be a hoax?

Well, no. With not one but two vengeful ghosts to fight, a promising (but ultimately pointless) CG “Crooked Man”, Lorraine's doomy premonitions and all manner of possessed children/dogs/toys to get to grips with, this is a lively little number and no mistak🌺e. But the disconnect between James Wan's whizzy camerawork and the grim suburban Britain of the 1970s doesn't help the unruly material bed down.

In 133 minutes, there's never a dull moment – nor strictly, a good one. By the time the narrative freezes so Ed c🍃an croon Elvis Presley's “I Can't Help Falling In Love With You” on acoustic guitar, you'll be pinching yourself in disbelief, and not for the first time.