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Thirteen years after James Wan's original The Conjuring quietly rewrote the economics of studio horror, the mainline series has reached its ending. The Conjuring: Last Rites arrived in September 2025 as the fourth and final film following Ed and Lorraine Warren, and it opened to enormous business, capping a summer in which demon-hunting proved to be one of the most reliable draws at the box office. Whatever critics made of it, audiences turned out in numbers that most franchises envy in their fourth installment.

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as the Warrens, and the decision to end the series with them rather than around them is the film's defining choice. The wider Conjuring universe has sprawled into Annabelle films, Nun films and assorted spinoffs, most of which traded the original's patience for jump scares on a schedule. Last Rites pulls back toward the thing that made the first film work: two people who love each other, walking into a house, absorbing damage on behalf of strangers.

The significant addition is Judy Warren, the Warrens' daughter, played as an adult by English actor Mia Tomlinson. Judy has hovered at the edges of the series for years as a child in danger, and giving her a real interior life reframes the whole enterprise. She grew up inside something she never chose. The question of how much of her parents' work belongs to her, and whether inheritance of a calling is the same as consent to it, is the most genuinely interesting thread the franchise has pulled in a decade.

Ben Hardy plays Tony Spera, Judy's boyfriend and the outsider who chooses to stay, which is its own quiet form of courage. Steve Coulter returns as Father Gordon, the institutional voice who believes but also believes in procedure and the terrible weight of getting it wrong. Rebecca Calder and Elliot Cowan play Janet and Jack Smurl, the family at the center of the haunting, drawn from one of the most widely reported cases the real Warrens attached themselves to.

The Smurl case is worth knowing about going in. The real family in West Pittston, Pennsylvania went public in the mid-1980s with claims that their duplex was violently haunted, and the story became a national media event, complete with a book and a television movie. Skeptics attributed the phenomena to more ordinary causes, and the case remains contested. The Conjuring films have always operated in that gap between claim and verification, which is either the franchise's great weakness or the source of its unease, depending on how you hold it.

What is not in dispute is the craft. The series has always been built on old-fashioned camera movement, long holds and a willingness to let a room stay quiet, and the result is a horror franchise that scares people who normally do not like being scared. It has also, unusually, kept its central marriage warm. Ed and Lorraine are among the very few horror protagonists whose relationship is a source of strength rather than a countdown to tragedy, and closing the series meant deciding what that costs.

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So where would you have stood in that house? The one who walks in first, the one who sees too much, the daughter deciding what to inherit, the outsider who stayed, or the priest who needs proof? Take the quiz above and find out.