Warner Bros.has released a new featurette offering a behind-the-scenes look into the upcoming filmThe Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do Itand theentirefranchise. The focus is on how the upcoming film is taking a different path from its predecessors and moving away from the typical haunted house setting.
The featurette also offers some new footage fromthe third installment inThe Conjuringfranchise, complete with jump scares and possessed humans. But, the new film promises to add more mystery to its storyline. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are returning as the real-life paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren.
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In the featurette,producer James Wanreveals that while they were shootingThe Conjuring 2, he suddenly had an idea for what the next installment in the franchise should focus on during a break in photography. “I think it should be more of a detective story,” he is heard saying. After helping the police solve many cases and finding missing people, Wan believes that moving the Warrens away from haunted houses was the natural direction the script could move in. Director Michael Chaves, who previously worked on the sixth installment inThe Conjuringuniverse, titledThe Curse of La Llorona, talks about how the 1995 filmSevenis one of their favorites and was used by him and Wan as a reference point when creating the script for their upcoming project.Sevenwas a psychological thriller starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman in lead roles and narrated the story of two detectives solving the case of a serial killer murdering people according tothe seven deadly sins.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do Itwill focus on the real-life case of Arne Cheyenne Johnson,a murder trialthat Ed and Lorraine worked on back in 1981. The case was the first time that a murder suspect in the US claimed demonic possession as his defense. Wan has previously referred to the upcoming film as the darkest one inThe Conjuringfranchise, partly because it focuses on one of Warren’s most controversial cases.
While the film will work as a sequel to 2013’sThe Conjuringand 2016’sThe Conjuring 2, it is the eighth installment in the cinematicuniverse as a whole. Apart fromThe Conjuringfilms, the universe includes threeAnnabellemovies,a spin-off feature titledThe Nun, and the previously mentioned standalone entryThe Curse of La Llorona.
This isn’t the first featurette released by Warner Bros. to promote the upcoming film. Back in October 2020, the media conglomerate had released a half-hour clip that offered fans a behind-the-scenes look atThe Conjuringuniverse along with a first look atThe Devil Made Me Do It.Similar to the newly released featurette, the video included interviews with Wan and the cast members talking about the journey they have been on since the inception ofthe horror franchise.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do Itis scheduled to premiere in theaters and on HBO Max on June 19, 2025.
