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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It
USA / UK 2021
produced by Peter Safran, James Wan (executive), Richard Brener (executive), Michael Clear (executive), Michelle Morrissey (executive), Dave Neustadter (executive), Victoria Palmeri (executive), Judson Scott (executive) for The Safran Company, Atomic Monster, New Line
directed by Michael Chaves
starring Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ruairi O'Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, Julian Hilliard, John Noble, Eugenie Bondurant, Shannon Kook, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Keith Arthur Bolden, Steve Coulter, Vince Pisani, Ingrid Bisu, Andrea Andrade, Ashley LeConte Campbell, Sterling Jerins, Paul Wilson, Charlene Amoia, Davis Osborne, Nicholas Massouh, Stella Doyle, Megan Ashley Brown, Mitchell Hoog, Jimmy Gonzales, Franco Castan, Mark Rowe, Chris Greene, Lindsay Ayliffe, Zele Avradopoulos, Jacinte Blankenship, Robert Walker Branchaud, Jay Peterson, Kaleka
story by James Wan, David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, based on characters created by Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes, music by Joseph Bishara, visual effects by Method Studios, Rodeo FX, Crafty Apes
Conjuring
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera
Farmiga) have just successfully exorcised little David (Julian Hilliard),
even if it meant Ed suffering from a heart attack ... and this is where
problems only begin, as Arne (Ruairi O'Connor), a friend of David's
family, has invited the demon that possessed David into his body. It's not
long before Arne stabs his boss (Ronnie Gene Blevins) for no apparent
reason and is apprehended for it. Ed and Lorraine suggest to his lawyer to
base his defense on demonic possession, but she's less than convinced for
very apparent reasons, so our heroes go back to David's case whose
possession was apparently caused by a witch's totem, and further
investigation reveals similar totems were found in connection with other
murders similar to Arne's. But their investigations do not go undetected,
as the Warrens find a totem in their own home that almost causes Ed to
kill Lorraine, while in prison an occultist (Eugenie Bondurant) tries to
make Arne kill himself and is stopped only just in time by Lorraine using
some psychic tunnle. Eventually, the Warren's zero in on disgraced
Catholic priest Father Kastner (John Noble), who had a daughter our of
celibacy, who has studied the occult but ultimately turned to the dark
side - eventually becoming the occultist behind it all. Apparently she has
an underground base somewhere under Kastner's house, but for revealing
that alone, Kastner is killed by his daughter - but of course eventually
all ends happily for our heroes ... A well-crafted piece of old
school horror that might not add anything new to the genre but places all
genre mainstays well for maximum effect. However the film is bogged down
by an over-convoluted plot that seems to take forever to tell a
fairly simple story, and by its paper-thin characters, who all just seems
vessels for the story rather than driving it. As a result, the film has a
very calculated feel to it, as if made more to keep the series alive than
actually make a captivating movie, and that the film's based on a
"true" story really doesn't change that impression at all.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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