The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.

  • Released: 2021-05-25
  • Runtime: 111 minutes
  • Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thrillers
  • Stars: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ruairí O'Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, Julian Hilliard, John Noble, Eugenie Bondurant, Shannon Kook, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Keith Arthur Bolden, Steve Coulter, Vince Pisani, Charlene Amoia, Megan Ashley Brown, Sterling Jerins, Andrea Andrade, Mitchell Hoog, Ashley LeConte Campbell, Davis Osborne, Paul Wilson, Mark Rowe, Stella Doyle, Ingrid Bisu, Stacy Johnson, Lindsay Ayliffe, Nicky Buggs, Rebecca Lines, Robert Walker Branchaud, Nicholas Massouh, Chris Greene, Kaleka, Fabio William, Nedim Jahić
  • Director: Michael Chaves
 Comments
  • timmalbertwestermann - 22 November 2022
    Definitely worth it
    I've heard a lot of people saying that the third instalment of the "Conjuring" franchise doesn't hold up compared to the previous two (pretty ridiculous, considering "The Nun", the "Annabelle"-Franchise and especially "The Curse of La Llorona"). Albeit this film this different from the others, I think it's pretty neat, that the writers are expanding on "Conjuring" lore and the breaches of the universe as a whole. I also like the focus on eeriness and story-telling, rather than the cop-out jump scares which, at least in part, dominated significant sections of numbers one and two. If you're in for a shocker that makes you cling to your pillow, this might not be the best fit, but if you're just looking for a nice horror flick and enjoyed previous "Conjuring" movies, give it a watch!
  • saint_brett - 12 August 2022
    Mental Illness is A Curse
    Up to part 3 already, are we?

    I enjoyed the first one.

    Bought the sequel but never bothered watching it.

    All this possession rubbish is baloney anyway.

    It's all mental illness of the mind often backed by out-of-date religious practises who still believe in ghosts and goblins and other archaic fairy tales.

    Wow, look, Father Merrin just stepped out of a cab in a scene ripped right off a classic 70's production.

    This is baloney because Loch Ness is/was a hoax. This is bogus because Amityville was baloney. This is a hoax because 'Exorcist 2: Heretic' tried to cash in on the originals success. This is a hoax because that 'Exorcism of Emily Rose' movie was lame. Don't feed me this "true story" tripe - I'm not buying it.

    Movie starts out with Ralphie Parker, minus his yuletide rifle, all bent out of shape pretending he's possessed by Hollywood trickery.

    With no shame this movie has the audacity to use that line from Exorcist, "Take me." Eddy Redmayne inherits the hocus pocus trickery off his little goofy brother and for something so Godly and spiritual he resorts to stabbing some long-haired loafer 22 times with a common switch blade and is put on trial where the death penalty is sought. Wow, you have devil powers and you kill someone with a manmade blade. (He speaks into a mini cassette recorder at the end credits and pulls some Undertaker deep voice hoodwinking all involved into believing there's multiple people inside of him. Kip Kinkel pulled this same stunt saying he was possessed by all the voices when all along he was just quoting a NIN song.)

    The movie retells how the Dahmer looking kid came to become a candidate for "possession" and it's via a waterbed and what looks like Mer-Man from 'Masters of The Universe' floating around inside. That's partially your bogyman's background for entity. They further confuse the viewer that a curse was placed under the house in the form of a demented rodent skull which invokes evil entities to possess Nimrods. Can you hear yourself, movie? What garbage.

    Dana Scully and Craig T. Nelson go on some wild goose chase and have all the answers to connect some skull McGuffin to an ex-priest who in turn leads them to a Victorian witch who looks like a good feed would kill her.

    Movie just bounces around from one conundrum to another. They just invent new scenes like they're clutching at straws to draw the movie out.

    There are introduced scenes that don't have diddly to do with the earlier story about Eddy Redmayne on death row. From a bloated dead corpse running around to a silly McGuffin skull connected to some old witch, who can disappear due to CGI movie magic, the movie's disjointed and the adventure totally unnecessary.

    They even throw in some Reagan character for good measure, who turns out to be a baddy, and is double crossed by some unknown cutthroat and I don't even know what that scene meant. Senseless slaughter unrequired. What does anything in this movie even mean?

    Some peon brain at the beginning was going to trial for murdering a dirt bag with his hands. So, what's all this witch stuff got to do with the trial? How is it connected to the kid with mental illness?

    How much more of this to go?

    It's just creating new scenarios after another without any connection.

    "Oh, who delivered the dead flowers?" The flowers hold the key if I pull these silly facial expressions and stare at 'em long enough.

    "Oh, I dropped an urn. Look, it smashed." The urn holds the key if I look at the broken pieces long enough with this silly look of amazement on my face.

    (I'm so stupid I can read tealeaves in a mug, too. They tell me to buy coffee instead.)

    None of that meant anything.

    Since when did all this devil possession become about contorting and twisting your body all bent out of shape till your bones crunch? It doesn't look good in final print. You've over-used it so many times it's now redundant.

    You'll find this nonsense in all recent movies about being possessed, and oh boy, have the floodgates opened on this subject the past 2 decades. Talk about oversaturation.