Over the course of twelve years, a Conjuring trilogy, an Annabelle trilogy, and a couple of _Nun_s, Australian filmmaker James Wan has presided over
Over the course of twelve years, a Conjuring trilogy, an Annabelle trilogy, and a couple of _Nun_s, Australian filmmaker James Wan has presided over one of the biggest — and best — horror franchises in state-of-the-art cinema. Now, The Conjuring Universe — and, more specifically, The Devil Made Me Do It director Michael Chaves — is set to come full circle as Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga prepare to play everybody’s favourite paranormal investigator spouses Ed and Lorraine Warren one last time in The Conjuring: Last Rites. Details on the Conjuring fourquel have been skinny on the ground until now, but a newly released featurette for the movie promises The Warrens’ final chapter will also be their darkest yet. Check it out below;
As producer James Wan kicks off this recent teaser by saying, The Conjuring: Last Rites represents “the end of an era” for his TCU — and as such, the ante is being upped considerably for the Warrens’ last horror hurrah. Pushing the timeline’s needle forward to 1986, five years after the Warrens’ last case, Last Rites will see the loved-up demonologists tackle the infamous Smurl case. For those who may not know, in 1986, Ed and Lorraine Warren took on the case of Pennsylvanian couple Janet and Jack Smurl, who’d spent twelve years allegedly being tormented by a demon who’d variously physically, mentally, sexually, and spiritually traumatised them and their children. It was a widely reported on case that spawned a 1986 Warrens and Smurls co-authored book, The Haunted, and — as Last Rites director Chaves notes — it’s a paranormal investigation that creates the framework for “the darkest thing we’ve ever seen in the series”. In the context of the movie, there’ll also be the added layer of the Warrens wrestling with their desire to leave their work behind, and their innate pull to assist this deeply troubled family. Classic Ed and Lorraine!
Beyond outlining the case being tackled here, further details on Ed and Lorraine Warrens’ final chapter are being kept firmly under wraps for now, although star Wilson does promise that this last Conjuring will be both “thrilling” and “scary” — which, honestly, is a given at this point from these Gothic yarns. Still, we don’t have too, too long to wait before Wan and Chaves deliver us our (The Conjuring) Last Rites. The movie is set to hit cinemas on 5 September. Just enough time for us to stock up on holy water and make one last Ed and Lorraine fan-cam then…
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