Taglines: The demonic case that shocked America.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Movie Storyline. In 1981, only a few years after Michael Taylor’s particularly violent Ossett Murder case that shocked the United Kingdom, and Janet Hodgson’s blood-curdling Enfield Haunting case in The Conjuring 2 (2016), the experienced investigators of the unexplained, Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren, found themselves in Brookfield, Connecticut.
There, Ed and Lorraine encountered something they’d never seen before: after the challenging exorcism of eight-year-old David Glatzel, Arne Johnson, a young friend of the Glatzels, began exhibiting increasingly strange behaviour. Then, more and more, the suffocating stranglehold of evil tightened around everyone involved, leading to murder and Johnson’s incarceration. But, according to Arne, evil forces were at work. Did the devil, indeed, make him do it?
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (also known as The Conjuring 3) is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, with a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick from a story by Johnson-McGoldrick and James Wan. The film serves as a sequel to The Conjuring (2013) and The Conjuring 2 (2016), and as the eighth installment in the Conjuring Universe.
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren, with Ruairi O’Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Julian Hilliard also starring. Wan and Peter Safran return to produce the film, which is based on the trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, a murder trial that took place in 1981 Connecticut, in addition to The Devil in Connecticut, a book about the trial written by Gerald Brittle.
Initial development for a third Conjuring film began in 2016, though Wan stated that he would not be directing another film in the series due to scheduling conflicts with other projects. Safran confirmed that the next film would not be a haunted house film. By June 2017, it was officially announced that a third installment was in development, with David Leslie Johnson hired to write the screenplay. Michael Chaves was announced as the film’s director, after previously directing The Curse of La Llorona (2019). Filming took place in Georgia in summer 2019.
Originally slated for a September 2020 release, the film was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema in the United States on June 4, 2021, where it also had a simultaneous month-long release on the HBO Max streaming service.
As of August 23, 2021, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It has grossed $65.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $135.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $201.4 million.
In the United States, the film was released alongside Spirit Untamed, and was projected to gross $15–20 million from 3,100 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $9.8 million on its first day, increasing estimates to $25–27 million. It ended up debuting to $24 million, the second-lowest of the Conjuring Universe but still marking the third-best opening of the pandemic and topped the box office. The film fell 57% to $10.3 million in its sophomore weekend, finishing third, then $5.2 million in its third weekend.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
Directed by: Michael Chaves
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Mitchell Hoog, Vera Farmiga, Megan Ashley Brown, Ruairi O’Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, John Noble, Eugenie Bondurant, Shannon Kook, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Keith Arthur Bolden
Screenplay by: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick
Production Design by: Jennifer Spence
Cinematography by: Michael Burgess
Film Editing by: Peter Gvozdas, Christian Wagner
Costume Design by: Leah Butler
Set Decoration by: Lisa Son
Art Direction by: Rachel Block, Peter Borck, Julian Scalia
Music by: Joseph Bishara
MPAA Rating: R for terror, violence and some disturbing images.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema
Release Date: May 26, 2021 (United Kingdom), June 4, 2021 (United States)
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