Los Angeles, Aug 1 (UNI) The final and most foreboding trailer for ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’, the climatic instalment in the studio’s seminal supernatural horror saga, has been unveiled.
This latest instalment sees real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren face their most personal haunting yet, a demonic entity from their early days in the field, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
The new trailer, unveiled on Thursday, deepened the lore by revisiting the Smurl haunting, a real-life case involving a family terrorised by a demonic presence for more than ten years. The film reunites Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as the celebrated paranormal investigators, yet this time, the horror is more intimate. It is no more a case, it is unfinished business.
“There’s something in the attic. Ed, there’s an evil here. Something I’ve felt before,” Lorraine says.
“This thing in your house is a demon. It’s the first one that we’ve ever encountered,” Lorraine says to the family before later saying to Ed, “We were young. We were scared. We ran away. And after all these years, it wasn’t done with our family.”
Blink and you miss it, but the Annabelle doll also appears in the trailer and toward the end, Lorraine is chased by what appears to be a possessed man with Ed trying to rescue her.
Annabelle was introduced in the “Conjuring” universe in the first film of the same name, which was directed by James Wan and released in 2013. The haunted doll appeared in more of the franchise’s films, including the spinoffs “Annabelle” (2014), “Annabelle: Creation” (2017) and “Annabelle Comes Home” (2019).
Mia Tomlinson plays Judy Warren, Ed and Lorraine Warren’s daughter and Ben Hardy, who plays her boyfriend (now husband), Tony Spera. Steve Coulter, Elliot Cowan, Rebecca Calder, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Beau Gadsdon, Shannon Kook, John Brotherton add to the cast.
Michael Chaves returns to direct the film. Wan and Peter Safran also return as producers. Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick wrote the script.
Slated to hit cinemas on September 5, ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ promises not just dramatic dread but emotional closure, as the Warrens confront the darkness that once made them flee.
