Trailer For THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT - The SE7EN of the Conjuring Universe
Warner Bros. has released the first trailer, a poster, and a few new photos offering us a first creepy look at the next film in The Conjuring film franchise, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. The director of the film also offers some new details regarding the film that fans of the franchise might be interested in knowing. It looks like another great Conjuring film.
The film comes from producer James Wan and director Michael Chaves and these images feature Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga back in their roles of Ed and Lorraine Warren. They also include Ruairi O’Connor as Arne Johnson and Eugenie Bondurant as The Occultist.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It will tell the “chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then 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.”
The movie has been said to be a “completely different movie than the first two.” The real story revolves around Arne Cheyenne Johnson. On November 24th, 1981, in Brookfield, Connecticut, Arne Cheyenne Johnson was convicted of first-degree manslaughter for the killing of his landlord, Alan Bono. This is the first court case in the United States in which the defense sought to prove innocence based upon the defendant's claim of demonic possession and denial of personal responsibility for the crime.
When talking about the film in an interview with IGN, Chaves says that this is the biggest and darkest Conjuring movie yet:
“In a lot of ways, this is the biggest Conjuring movie. I showed the final cut to [star] Vera [Farmiga] and her husband and they agreed, and they were like, ‘This is the darkest Conjuring movie.’ It digs into some really dark material. This is definitely a case where there's real consequence, there's real victims.”
He went on to explain that the movie was inspired by David Fincher’s Se7en. He explained, ‘It's Se7en, but in the Conjuring universe.” He went on to say:
“This is really taking the Warrens into uncharted places. Being a fan of the franchise, I was honestly really nervous at first breaking with convention, breaking with a lot of things that are tradition, but I think that what we've done is really woven the language and the things that you do want from a Conjuring film - the scares, the Warrens, their relationship - [and [pushed them] to the limits in this really fresh and exciting new direction.
“This takes them to the limit. There's real events and real tragedies that happen to the Warrens. Something happens to Ed, to both of them, that they struggle to recover and we kind of have to wonder, are they gonna be the same? After this event and even going into future movies, what will the repercussions be?”
When talking about taking the franchise in a different direction, the director explained:
“What's gonna be our iconic scary monster, what's gonna be our Annabelle or our Nun? And from the very beginning, James and the studio wanted to do something very different, basically treat this as a new decade for the Warrens, a new chapter where we're introducing new themes, new ideas, and taking these characters to places that they've never gone before. Let me just say their adversary is unlike any adversary they’ve faced before, and not just in the sense that it's another iconic character. There's something fundamentally different with this one and I think that's honestly what I'm most excited about.”
Chaves goes on to share that he’s excited for the fans to see the opening film’s sequence, which features a recreation of the exorcism of 11-year-old David Glatzel:
“Arne Johnson was there. He was a family friend and the Warrens were working with [Glatzel’s] family. It goes horribly wrong and it sets into motion all of these events that play out across the rest of the movie. Honestly, that’s one of the sequences that I'm most proud of in the movie. I think it's really scary, it's really unsettling, and a lot of it's based on real events.”
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It will open in theaters on June 4th, 2021. I’m excited about this movie! I’ve enjoyed all of The Conjuring movies and it’ll be cool to see a different type of film in the franchise with this one.
