It’s no mean feat to combine genuine horror and cosiness, but it’s a trick that The Conjuring films seem to have mastered. This latest instalment, which seems intended as a finale of sorts for its demonologist heroes, is often very scary, but it increasingly feels like it’s pulling punches so that Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson’s Lorraine and Ed Warren are never fatally outgunned. True love must survive, after all.

The story begins with a flashback to 1964, as the young Warrens prepare for the birth of their first child. But Lorraine’s labour comes on suddenly when she’s confronted with an evil mirror, and it threatens disaster. Cut to 22 years later, when their adult daughter Judy (Mia Tomlinson) brings home her boyfriend Tony (Ben Hardy) and both mother and daughter start to experi

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