Michael Chaves' horror blockbuster The Conjuring: Last Rites has been wildly profitable, but it could have gone down as one of the best modern horror movies if it simply followed through on the dark ending it set up. The Conjuring: Last Rites has broken multiple box office records in its run through September 2025, so the movie lauded as the final chapter for the Warrens clearly landed with audiences.

The first three movies in the franchise featured Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) acting as paranormal gunslingers, finding themselves called into battle against different demonic entities and dispatching them before moving on. The buck finally stopped with The Conjuring: Last Rites , as the demon they dealt with is one that had plagued their family since

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