Overview

• The final trailer confirms the demon tormenting the Smurl family is the same entity Ed and Lorraine Warren faced in their very first case.
• A brief appearance by the Annabelle doll underscores its role as a franchise emblem without serving as the film’s primary antagonist.
• Michael Chaves returns as director, reuniting Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson with producers James Wan and Peter Safran, and writers Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick.
• The narrative draws on the real-life 1974–1989 Smurl Family Haunting in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, as the Warrens’ final on-screen exorcism.
• The Conjuring: Last Rites opens exclusively in North American theaters and IMAX on September 5, 2025, marking the end of Phase One and leading into a Conjuring series in development at HBO Max.