The Conjuring Last Rites to release Sept 5 in North America as Phase One finale

Warner Bros. will release The Conjuring Last Rites in North American theaters on September 5, with an earlier international rollout of September 3 listed in some announcements, and the studio is billing the film as the end of the first phase of the Conjuring franchise. The R rated supernatural thriller reunites Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren and centers on the notorious 1986 Smurl haunting, a real world case the Warrens investigated, and which franchise creator James Wan has said was chosen in part for its personal significance to him.

Directed by Michael Chaves from a story by Wan and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, with a screenplay by Johnson-McGoldrick, Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing, Last Rites is set five years after The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. The film portrays the Warrens retired from active exorcism after Ed suffered a heart attack, but drawn back to investigate disturbing occurrences in a West Pittston, Pennsylvania duplex occupied by the Smurl family. The film, produced by Wan and Peter Safran, runs about 135 minutes and has been given an R rating for bloody violent content and terror.

Wan, who directed the first two Conjuring...