Director Michael Chaves says the third Conjuring film, ‘The Devil Made Me Do It,’ is the darkest of the series, and made him go to some very dark places.
In The Conjuring franchise, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as Ed and Lorraine Warren, the paranormal investigators at the center of the story. Unlike the previous two Conjuring movies, the third outing for the pair won’t see them investigate a haunted house.
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As the Warrens investigate the paranormal occurrences surrounding the violence, they will be following the case of Arne Johnson, who pleaded insanity by way of possession for killing his landlord. Johnson and the young boy who was initially controlled by the demon that eventually possessed the murderer’s body are both included.
According to Chaves, “we wanted to blow the doors of the haunted house. Until now, these movies have existed inside a specific framework. We wanted to expand on them. We love David Fincher’s Se7en and our team was excited by the challenge of doing something along those lines – about an investigation within the series – while using all that supernatural terminology and language. There’s a real victim in this story,” Chaves adds. “It weighed heavily on us because we knew we needed to make a film that was thrilling and scary, but we also wanted to be true to the story.”
