hey what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott back again with a
brand new movie review and today we are discussing the eighth film in the conjuring universe and that
is the conjuring 3 also known as the conjuring the devil made me do it i'm really excited to
let you all know my thoughts on the film and let you know if i think it's worth checking out on
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if the conjuring the devil made me do it was a film you were looking forward to checking out
and how did you see it for the first time was it at home hbo max or was it in theaters
but more importantly let's talk about the film your pros your cons your thoughts on the direction
by michael chavez the performances did you enjoy this story and we're talking about the eighth film
in this franchise let's talk rankings ladies and gentlemen is this your number one conjuring film
in the franchise is it number eight share with me if you've seen all eight films let me know
your list in the comments below so for me i am a conjuring fan 2013's kanye was one of my
favorite films in the last decade one of my top 15 horror films of all time a really great sequel
the spin-offs they have their moments right the nun has its moments la verona has his moments you
know all the annabelle films have their moments but they're not as up to par as the conjuring
movies right but i'm still a fan i've seen all the movies in theaters that's actually a lie the
devil made me lie there guys no i the only film i didn't see in theaters was annabelle creation
and now this i watch this film at home and come from my own home uh and and we'll talk about my
experience watching at home but nonetheless i'm a fan of the franchise but i'm not gonna lie
i was nervous about the conjuring three and it's one reason i was nervous and that is james wan
is attached to the film but not as a director but as the writer he has credits to the story
you have michael chavez the director of la dirono which i talked about in my review a couple years
ago i didn't enjoy the story too much but there is something to be said about his direction which
we'll talk about in this review but i was nervous that james wan wasn't behind the camera but let's
talk about my positives first how did the film work out for me well let's start with michael
chavez now as i said in my review on leather arona i think he's a very capable director i think he
does a good job of setting the atmosphere setting the tone the moon and capturing some good scares
and i gotta say i think that he carries that over to this film now there is a epping hole of james
juan missing in this film but i think james did a good job of allowing michael chavez to bring
in his sensibilities now there are moments where they try to bring in some james wines sweeping
shots and and i think michael chavez gets the tone he knows these characters ed and lorraine
and he captures their love story really well which we'll talk about in a second but i think
i was nervous that he was going to be the the flaw of the film but i'm happy to say for me at least
that he wasn't the flaw of the movie as far as his direction goes and we'll talk about some of the
other stuff a little bit later but i think michael chavez did a good job and i think james wan saw
something to him and i think he made a good choice in allowing him to tell this story of ed
and lorraine so let's speaking of ed and lorraine the stars of this franchise patrick wilson vera
famiga as ed and lorraine they are fantastic they are easily the best part of this film there is a
love story in this movie which has been there for most of the other films and you know you see that
love and annabelle comes home but i think correct me if i'm wrong i think this is the most screen
time that we've gotten with ed lorraine the entire franchise and i love that because i love these
characters it's just like this this chemistry that patrick wilson and and uh virmiga have which let
me just break down their performances individually speaking of patrick wilson i'm a big fan of his
work i love that he works with james juan a lot especially in this franchise and insidious
and i'm really intrigued to see him being director he's going to be directing the next insidious film
but that's neither here nor there patrick wilson as ed uh warren does such a great job he cares
for these people that he's helping he loves his family and he goes through some stuff in this film
man ed has a moment happen to him very early on that kind of makes his abilities limited in this
film but you still see that courage you still see him battling his own demons battling the demon in
his film and i really enjoyed the performances this may be my favorite performance by both ed
and lorraine the entire franchise and that says a lot because i love what they did in the first one
i love them in the second one i love their cameo and annabelle comes home but this is probably my
favorite performance by these two actors which speaking of his counterpart vera famiga who also
i'm a big fan of her work and love what she does in this genre just love her in general
she's great man uh lorraine is doing a lot in this movie guys like she's you know she
has her psychic abilities that she uses quite a few times in her story she has this this is a
really interesting parallel love story which one i didn't really care for but again speaking back
to the love story of ed and lorraine we get some backstory we learned a little bit about how they
met each other we really see how much they care for each other and what they're willing to do
to share their love with other families and help these families escape these demonic presences
so i really enjoyed vera famigo i thought she was fantastic as lorraine and ed i think this is their
best performance for me i love what they brought to this film they have their heart they're the
soul they carry all the emotional weight whenever they were on screen you felt their presence you
you missed their presence from me and then again when they were on screen it's the chemistry it's
the charisma it's the caring for these characters that that really carry this film for me personally
which i do want to highlight some some moments in the movie without breaking it down to a detail
because again no spoilers but going back to michael chef that's direction the opening
sequence is fantastic it's one of my favorite in the franchise i'm not gonna lie there's a
particular exorcism that happens and there's some body contortions that were pretty awesome
and really well captured i thought the opening was was really great and really kind of sets the tone
unfortunately there are some moments that don't really live up to the expectations of the opening
there is a morgue scene that i thought was really well executed i thought that the atmosphere and
the tone and the the person involved with the people involved in that scene in particular a
particular person was fantastic and then there's some other moments man especially in the third act
of the film which i really enjoyed the third at i thought the second act which we'll talk about here
was it was a little bit disappointing but that third act really kind of hits home especially
in the scare department there's a really well captured shot that takes place in the tunnels
there's a particular adversary that i was not expecting to film that i really kind of
enjoyed her presence but also going back to body contortion and exorcisms there's a really big
scene in the third act that i thought was really well captured so again it speaks to michael cervez
capturing those moments for me personally and again the heart and soul of the story is love
and and perseverance and and fighting through these demonic entities with love and caring
from one another and i thought that the love story was really strong more so for ed and lorraine but
i had a moment with a particular character by the name of arnie and his girlfriend that i thought
was by the third act i was like okay this this i i feel their love now for the first time the
entire film so those are some moments that really kind of stood out to me but i want to talk about
my criticisms now i remember after the conjuring 2 that the next film was supposed to be about a
werewolf and they even hinted that in annabelle comes home that this whole demonic presence
within a werewolf i really want to see that film unfortunately we know this one is about a the most
sensational court case revolving around the first time in american history a person is uh pleading
not guilty because they were possessed by the devil now for me my criticisms lie within that
pitch i didn't find this to be sensational now i wasn't expecting this courtroom drama by any means
but literally when it comes to this case and being sensational in this news casting and everyone
hearing about it i didn't feel it and if i'm being honest i didn't care for the story guys i really
and this i love werewolves i would have loved to have seen a werewolf presence in the conjuring
universe but this story was just not interesting to me at all and it really kind of plays into
arnie and i believe the actor's name is rory or connor who plays arnie he has moments that
i care for him but for the most part what i love about the first conjuring and what i love about
the second conjuring i love ellen lorraine and they're my favorite parts but i care for
the families they were helping i didn't care for the family guys we we barely spend time with the
the main kid and when something happens and arnie comes across a certain presence i just didn't feel
the emotional connection like i did for those other two families the other two films and i
think it plays a little bit to the performance it it didn't feel believable they didn't have the the
charm and the charisma and i just didn't really care for those characters from being honest again
whenever ed and lorraine were on screen the film was at its best but whenever we strayed away from
that and focus on arnie and the kid and his girlfriend and bruno and all that stuff i'm
just like ah the execution isn't that well put to me and and i'm and i'm go back to
i applaud how they take this blockbuster approach to the horror scares but it's to hollywood it
this film in particular the setup it gave away too much for me personally you know i think of
how they set up the scares it was very obvious in regards to his approach and just to be frank it
took away from the scares for me this film wasn't that scary it's the least scariest conjuring film
and again scary horror films are very subjective but i the scariest part of this movie for me
besides that morgue scene which i thought was executed really well i wasn't necessarily scared
i was just really more thrilled the scariest part of this movie for me is the end credit scene and
i won't tell you why that is the case but the film just kind of lacked that personality that
flare and again when it came to the actual jump scares which again jump scares can be effective
if done right there was just two telegraph they would literally set up the scenes you could like
it's almost like an action movie where they set up an action sequence and you can feel okay this is
back to where the actual gonna happen the same thing applies this film where like they would
it's a matter of the lighting the audio you know watch it at home which was i watched it in my dark
you know i had the lights off and all that stuff but it just felt so telegraphed that okay this is
scary it's going to happen versus the way james juan craig and michael chavez isn't james juan
but it's just the way that james juan creates the tension creates the atmosphere you don't really
see a lot of things coming but in this film it was right around the corner and again i think
the story is at fault in this film it's one of the least interesting stories to me because again
it didn't really play into the whole sensational courtroom trial and when you get to the conclusion
of the courtroom scenes it didn't really work out too well for me it felt kind of off which again
just speaking of off this film tries to inject a good amount of comedy that fell absolutely flat
there are some moments in this film just like they could have cut that out again it's nice to
have some levity and we've gotten levity other uh films in this movie uh in this franchise in
particular but this film the comedy oh my goodness i don't know who wrote james wein was the writer
of the story but he's not the screenwriter but some of the jokes to me really didn't land that's
more of a minor thing the biggest thing to me was i wasn't all that interested in the case i wasn't
really all that interested in the characters that weren't by the name of ed and lorraine so
those are my criticisms but before i give you all my overall score make sure to like the
video share the video leave your thoughts in the comments your pros your cons and let me know your
rankings of all eight films in this franchise with all that being said even though i have my
criticisms the conjuring 3 the devil made me do it still has heart and it's all due to the fact
that we have ed and lorraine's story being at the forefront and they are the saving grace of this
film now i will applaud those scenes i mentioned earlier i think michael chavez does a good job
of those four or five scenes that i pointed out earlier in this review but again unfortunately
the story's lacking it's a bit boring at times it's not all that scary and listen i think this
is the end of a chapter for the warrens but there is a potentiality of hey if they can give me that
werewolf story i might be back on board but i'm okay with this being the last conjuring film we
know it's not going to be but with all that being said i'm going to give this film the conjuring
3 or the conjuring the devil made me do it a solid three out of five now i gave the conjuring two
a a three point eight out of five i gave the first one a four a four and a half out of five it's been
so long so i ranked that film so out of the three main stories this is my least favorite one i would
say one two and three and then in the grand scheme of the eight franchise or the eight films this
is probably my fourth favorite one i i have the annabelle three pretty high up so i would say this
is my fourth favorite film the entire franchise but let me know your rankings let me know your
thoughts in the comments of this film what worked for you what didn't work for you were you scared
did you see it on hbo max or in the theaters let's talk about it all in the comments below as always
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