The Conjuring 3 Is Departing from the Style of Previous Two Entries
Jonathan Barkan
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Both of James Wan’s The Conjuring films are masterfully crafted slices of haunted house terror. Something about the way he shoots his films fills me with complete dread and terror as I fear for all characters involved.
His secret is that the scripts he directs demand that we take the time to get to know all of the people in the story. And not just know them, but become a part of their lives, their rituals. When these people become endangered, our terror is so strong because we truly care about the characters that are at peril.
For the third entry, the formula of Ed and Lorraine Warren helping to cleanse a haunted house is going to change as producer Peter Safran feels that the series needs to go in a new direction. Speaking with CinemaBlend, Safran states, “There are some [cases] that maybe aren’t as well known, but they spent a fair bit of time researching and were part of [them]. Clearly we can’t do another haunted house movie, right? We can’t do another supernatural possession in a house, with a family in peril. Right? So, it’s got to be something different than that, I think.”
Considering the wide variety of supernatural phenomena that have been reported across the world throughout the ages, it seems clear that the third film will avoid ghosts in favor of something else. Perhaps more can be gleaned by Wan’s assertion that The Conjuring 3 “…has got to be set in the ’80s“? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see!
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