TheConjuringfilm franchise is set to come to an end with the fourth installment,The Conjuring: Last Rites, which Warner Bros. has scheduled for a theatrical release onSeptember 5, 2025release – and with that date now just a few months away,a teaser trailer has dropped online. You can check it out in the embed above.
Up until this week, we didn’t have any plot info onThe Conjuring: Last Rites, but Entertainment Weekly was finally able to draw some information out of the filmmakers. They shared that the film is set in1986, five years after the events ofThe Devil Made Me Do It. The Warrens have retired from the exorcist business, largely due to Ed’s heart attack, the one sustained during the demonic happenings of the third film. They still hit the university circuit, presenting talks at various schools, but even those opportunities are drying up. Of course, certain events force them back into the fold one last time.They added thatthe case at the center ofLast Ritesis one of the more famous events from the Warrens’ career: the Smurl family haunting. According tothe New England Society of Psychic Research— the occult-investigating organization now run by Ed and Lorraine’s real-life daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Tony Spera (both of whom cameo in the film)— Janet and Jack Smurl moved their family into a duplex on Chase Street in West Pittston, Pa., in the 1970s. In the years that followed, the Smurls, including their young daughters and Jack’s parents, claimed to experience supernatural occurrences ranging from strange odors and voices all the way to ghostly molestations. The Smurls’ appearances on TV programs such asLarry King LiveandEntertainment Tonightmade it one of the more publicized cases of supernatural activity, but it also gave skeptics ammunition to say they sold out for the public spotlight. The story became the subject of the bookThe Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare(1986) and a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Sally Kirkland.
Patrick WilsonandVera Farmigareprise the roles of paranormal investigators / married couple Ed and Lorraine Warren. They’re joined in the cast by Rebecca Calder (Wrath of Man) and Elliot Cowan (Foundation) was Janet and Jack Smurl, with the rest of the Smurl family being played by Kíla Lord Cassidy (Heather), Beau Gadsdon (Dawn), Tilly Walker (Carin), Molly Cartwright (Shannon), Peter Wight (Grandpa Smurl), and Kate Fahy (Grandma Smurl). Mia Tomlinson (The Lost Pirate Kingdom) takes on the role of the Warrens’ daughter Judy, who is now an adult in her 20s. Ben Hardy (X-Men: Apocalypse) plays Judy’s boyfriend Tony, and Orion Smith and Madison Lawlor play younger versions of Ed and Lorraine in flashbacks.
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Michael Chaves, who previously directedThe Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,The Nun II, and the Conjuring Universe-adjacentThe Curse of La Llorona, is at the helm ofThe Conjuring: Last Rites, working from a screenplay written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, who also wroteThe Conjuring 2andThe Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and The Autopsy of Jane Doe writers Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing. Franchise producers James Wan and Peter Safran are producing the film, with Michael Clear, Judson Scott, Natalia Safran, John Rickard, Hans Ritter and Johnson-McGoldrick serving as executive producers. Wan also crafted the story with Johnson-McGoldrick.
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