Conjuring Last Rites to End Warrens' Arc in 2025

The Conjuring Last Rites, the ninth entry in the enduring horror franchise, arrives in theaters on September 5, 2025 in North America and September 3 internationally, marking the planned culmination of the current arc around paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. Set in 1986, years after the events of The Devil Made Me Do It, the film centers on the Warrens’ last case before retirement, driven in part by Ed’s heart trouble and the couple’s shift toward university talks that have grown sporadic. The project brings back Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in the iconic roles, with Mia Tomlinson portraying their daughter Judy Warren, and Ben Hardy as Tony Spera, alongside a larger cast that includes Rebecca Calder, Elliot Cowan, and Shannon Kook. The screenplay is by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, from a story by Johnson-McGoldrick and James Wan, with Chaves directing a project that Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, and Atomic Monster hope will cap a long-running era of the universe.

The film’s central case is described as one of the more famous in the Warrens’ career: the Smurl haunting, which draws in the real-life lineage of the occult...