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Movie Name: The Conjuring: Last Rites
Directed by: Michael Chaves
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mia Tomlinson, Ben Hardy
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Running Time: 135 Minutes
Release Date: September 05, 2025
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Languages: English
Production House: New Line Cinema, Atomic Monster, The Safran Company
Budget: $- million
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
The Conjuring: Last Rites – Movie Overview
The Conjuring: Last Rites is an upcoming American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves and written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick. Based on the true-life investigations of the Warrens through an original story co-authored by James Wan and Johnson-McGoldrick, the film stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who reprise their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren, along with Mia Tomlinson and Ben Hardy. It is the sequel to The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) and the ninth installment of The Conjuring Universe. Chaves returns as director from the previous film, and James Wan and Peter Safran return to produce.
The Conjuring: Last Rites is scheduled to be released in the United States on September 5, 2025.
Filming was scheduled to take place in London between September 10 and October 10, 2024, and had started by September 17. Filming concluded on November 22. Sterling Jerins is not expected to return.
The score was composed by Benjamin Wallfisch, replacing Joseph Bishara, who previously composed the first three films. Wallfisch also previously composed the Conjuring spin-off film Annabelle: Creation (2017).
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Movie Review:
More exhausting than eerie, the finale is weighed down by emotional drama
Story:
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) are enjoying retirement, until a chilling case in a remote Pennsylvania home draws them back into the darkness. The haunting isn’t just another possession… it has a terrifying link to their daughter, Judy (Mia Tomlinson).
Review:
The fourth movie in the Conjuring universe, also touted as the finale, is a slow burn horror that burns a bit too slow. It stays loyal to the Conjuring template— big family in a haunted house, creepy attic, and eerie musical toys delivering solid jump scares—but it takes far too long to get to the point. Overloaded with ambition, the uneven pacing may not rob its tension, but it makes the experience more exhausting than terrifying. At 2 hours and 15 minutes, the final instalment feels bogged down by its heavy-handed emotional drama.
Overstuffed, this time around the demonic spirits haunt not just one home but two — the Warrens and the Smurl family. The story shuttles between these two parallel tracks until they converge in an extended climax. The fear element persists but it gets overshadowed by the family drama.
The film’s standout moment arrives when Lorraine urges her daughter to confront her fear rather than run from it—a rare instance of emotional resonance that cuts through the gloom. It tugs at the heartstrings but ultimately leaves you wishing the rest of the film carried the same force and emotional weight.
Conjuring in 2013 put an end to campy horror with its atmospherics and storytelling. It added depth and different dimension to the genre. With horror upping the ante this year through films like Weapons, The Conjuring’s final chapter struggles to reinvent itself or recapture the suspense and fear of its original.
The film brings together the cast from previous instalments for a moving scene that lingers long after the credits roll. While successful franchises often find a way to resurrect themselves—much like the demons here —perhaps it’s time for The Conjuring to finally bid its farewell. Why risk diluting a brand that reinvented the genre and brought a touch of class to horror?
