The Devil Made Me Do It..You say!

Even if I might be skeptical of the Warrens, Wilson and Farmiga bring a sincerity and integrity to their roles as Ed and Lorraine that I buy hook, line, and sinker. The knockoff Exorcist poster iconic image of Father Merrin with the priest in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) is so on the nose, I admittedly winced and was like, "You didn't have to make it so obvious." The story does seem to be fertile for a fictionalized, jacked-up retelling for The Conjuring Universe where the James Wan bells and whistles I and many others have grown to know and love so well (while others groan and wish the franchise would come to an end, probably saying to themselves, "Enough already!") are incorporated by whoever the director might be (I didn't hate "La Llorona", from Chaves, but it is one of my least favorites of the Universe).