- #THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA ED AND LORRAINE WARREN MOVIE#
- #THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA ED AND LORRAINE WARREN SERIES#
He is the author of Holy Horror: The Bible and Fear in Movies (McFarland, 2018). Wiggins is an independent scholar who has taught at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Carroll College, and Rutgers and Montclair State Universities. In them all, however, the message of the Catholic Church remains-if you got a demon, you should call an exorcist. And when you don’t have an exorcist handy, they explore the alternate options available. The Conjuring movies, despite this brief summary, are actually complex. To use this method you’ll need a sledgehammer. This Ed does, releasing Arne from the demon’s grip. The only way to break Arne’s possession is to destroy the hidden altar that she’s been using.
#THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA ED AND LORRAINE WARREN SERIES#
Lorraine has to track down the daughter of a renegade priest who has been directing a series of satanic deaths as a kind of sacrifice.
Here exorcism while in prison is out of the question (this did not prevent the third installment of The Exorcist ( Exorcist III, 1990) from doing precisely that). Reaching back into Annabelle, the Warrens pull out the Disciples of the Ram, a fictional satanist cult, as responsible for putting a curse on the family. Then they have to figure out what can be done to get rid of the demon now that Arne’s in jail. To resolve this possession, the Warrens must determine why David was possessed in the first place. Noble, but not recommended.Īrne, now possessed, stabs his obnoxious landlord to death and is arrested. The Warrens, assisting with the exorcism, realize that Arne, like Father Karras, gets the demon out by offering himself as its new home. Unlike the majority of possession movies, it’s the boy who’s possessed. They consist of parents (who remain largely in the background), a daughter, Debbie (who is living with her boyfriend Arne Johnson), and her younger brother David. The story follows an extended family-the Glatzels. The Devil Made Me Do It opens with an exorcism, partially successful. This method may work, but the true blood of Jesus is difficult to find. This guide appears in the Warrens’ college lecture in the first movie. The only possession here (since the nuns are actually already dead) is their guide at the very end. The exorcist is incapacitated, and the novice nun sends the demonic Nun back to Hell by spitting the true blood of Jesus in her face. There they encounter the ghosts of several dead nuns and a demon released from Hell by bombs falling in the Second World War. Next, giving Valak a backstory, The Nun finds a young novice and a failed exorcist traveling to a haunted convent in Romania. (Also not a recommended way of dealing with demons.) There’s no exorcism this time and the demon gets off scot-free to allow for the previous film.
#THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA ED AND LORRAINE WARREN MOVIE#
Things are even dicier in Annabelle: Creation since Annabelle has to survive into the previous movie ( Creation is technically a prequel). Unorthodox, but this seems a better option than suicide, if your exorcist is absent. Lorraine Warren, however, has to save Ed by naming and driving out Valak. The demon is defeated in the unorthodox manner of a female-led “exorcism.” Roman Catholicism has limited exorcism to priests who, by doctrinal decree, must be male.
The second in the root story, Conjuring 2, identifies the demon as Valak-thus giving us The Nun-and also features other haunting monsters. What do you do when no exorcist is available? Watch on. Many of these films stand out by finding other ways to banish demons, beyond exorcism. Ed and Lorraine were Catholics, so the Catholic church was their way of expelling these evil entities.
One feature that holds all of these films together, apart from the Warrens’ world, is their focus on demons. Two interstitial movies, organically connected around the main story of the Warrens, round out the set: The Nun (2018) and The Curse of La Llorona (2019). Annabelle’s line led to Annabelle: Creation (2017) and Annabelle Comes Home (2019). The base story, which follows the Warrens themselves, continued in The Conjuring 2 (2016) and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021). So far there are eight films in this universe, three of them following the spinoff Annabelle’s (2014) eponymous doll, and three along the main root of The Conjuring. In 2013, while Lorraine was still alive, they became the driving conceit behind The Conjuring and its sequels and spinoffs. Early on the scene at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, they were never really made part of that particular franchise. In real life Ed and Lorraine Warren were paranormal investigators.