Overview

• Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return for their final turn as Ed and Lorraine Warren, joined by Mia Tomlinson as Judy and Ben Hardy as Tony Spera.
• First social-media reactions skew positive, highlighting strong emotion and scares, though some critics describe the film as formulaic or less frightening.
• Box-office tracking points to a robust Labor Day opening, with forecasts reported across the low-to-upper tens of millions domestically.
• Director Michael Chaves says the team worked with the Smurl sisters to ground the story and incorporated a real Warren artifact—a haunted mirror—from another case.
• Chaves notes an all-demons crossover was considered before choosing a more intimate, Logan-inspired finale, echoing James Wan’s goal to end the Warrens’ arc on a high.