The Witch), or some combination of the three. In this way, pop culture is catching up with the beliefs of actual satanists, the majority of whom don’t believe in Satan as a literal entity to be feared
or worshipped. Not so
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, a movie that’s as deathly serious as The Louvin Brothers when they sang “Satan Is Real” in 1960.
Although the possession subgenre is inherently Christian if demons are real, then therefore so is God
The Conjuring’s literal-minded approach has always made it especially so. As A.A. Dowd wrote in his review of the latest entry, in these films “good is good, evil is evil, and the difference can’t be missed,” and it can’t be denied, either. There’s a holy war going on, and Bible-thumpers Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) are on the front lines. Join, or burn. This fire-and-brimstone subtext remained just that when the fictionalized Warrens were battling ghosts; you don’t have to
From what I remember, my father was a rational, no-nonsense man who rejected unbelievable claims and questioned unsubstantiated speculation. He could spot a sham a mile away and he had no problem walking away from a charlatan. To some degree, his profound skepticism made it difficult for him to connect with organized religion. He kept his spirituality to himself.
When one of my motherâs family members presented me with a coffee table book on the occult for my birthday, my father was not pleased. The Readerâs Digest book âInto the Unknownâ was an omnibus edition collecting accounts of UFOs and aliens; clairvoyance, telepathy, and reincarnation; ghosts and poltergeists; Atlantis and ancient earth mysteries; and witchcraft, monsters, possession, and exorcism. The book may as well have been a gateway drug for me, because it sparked an intense interest in ghosts, hauntings and all things weird and wonderful. If you had met me when I was 10 years old and you asked me w
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the latest entry in
The Conjuring series, is now in theaters and on HBO Max. And if you haven’t seen it yet, and want to catch up on all the other
Conjuring movies first, I’m here to help. Here’s where you can stream every single entry in the Conjuring Universe, from start to finish. Eight movies, eight chances for you to be scared witless.
The Conjuring
The first entry in the franchise,
The Conjuring, directed by
Patrick Wilson and
Vera Farmiga). They’re a married couple who also happen to chase after ghosts and demons, and they’ve been asked to help out the very large Perron family, who’ve just moved into a haunted house being tormented by the ghost of a witch.