

To help convince her, the Warrens invite her to come over for dinner and see Annabelle – the infamous doll that resides in the couple’s special room of unholy artifacts, and the fan-favorite star of three “Conjuring” spinoff movies. Review: 'The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It' ventures too far from franchise's freaky normĪrne’s defense attorney in the film is unsurprisingly reluctant about using demonic possession as a legal strategy.

(In real life, Johnson was convicted of first-degree manslaughter of his landlord and served five years of a 10- to 20-year sentence.)

“The Devil” doesn’t leave much time for courtroom drama, instead focusing on the Warrens’ twisty quest for clues to help Arne (played by Ruairi O’Connor), who's inhabited by a dark force after it hops out of the body of 11-year-old David Glatzel (Julian Hilliard) during an exorcism. “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” (in theaters and on HBO Max Friday) is the third film to star Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as real-life married paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, and the new chapter digs into a famously high-profile case: the 1981 trial of 19-year-old Arne Cheyenne Johnson, the first person to use demonic possession as a murder defense. But in the freaky real-life history that fuels “The Conjuring” horror-movie universe, it’s not that big a swing. Watch Video: Trailer Tuesdays: New 'Conjuring' movie and our top possession filmsĪn unnerving scene involving an evil waterbed and a traumatized child might seem like a pretty unreal occurrence.
