Oh, hello. I hope my kind words regarding the Conjuring made it so you politely refused to give that movie a fair chance while watching. My life goal is to block James Wan from gaining any more positive juju than necessary.
Due to social politeness of the situation*, I tried actually putting your kind words on the back burner and attempted to approach it with an open mind as to why someone else might think it's scary or a decent movie.
I made it about 15 minutes in before I just started making jokes about the incompetency. Also doing the mental exercise on what about it makes it just not work. While it's definitely more than one thing, the two aspects that stood out to me were
1. There's something about ghosts/demons taunting or showing off, telling you how bad things are going to be, that kills the eerieness of the presentation.
2. I just kept getting the same vibes as when watching some of American Horror Story. Which doesn't say why the movie doesn't work, but also has a lot of the same problems of presentation.
I will be honest, I enjoyed the watch, but mainly because I was able to laugh at the movie a lot.
I watched Night of a Thousand Cats with a large cult, horror audience and loved it. I remember Bill the Squid watched it on my recommendation and found it too dull. Low grade Mexican filmmaking it is. But likewise and on topic for the Jaws ripoffs, I did enjoy Tintorerra.
*: A pandemic formed movie club and the suggestion was made by someone relatively young, who seemed to enjoy the series.
And I'll be honest, I'm not going to go back through 70 pages, but at some point in the past week I clicked on one of the pages (can't remember if it was the beginning or the end), Hertzfeldt came up. I think It's Such a Beautiful Day got stronger as the trilogy progressed, but World of Tomorrow... started strong but I didn't click with part 3.
Have you seen The Meaning of Life? It was his short right before Everything Will be Okay. I don't rewatch it much, because I just usually rewatch one of the trilogies, but it should be seen at least once.