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66-511: The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan and written by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes . It is the inaugural film in The Conjuring Universe franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star as Ed and Lorraine Warren , paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting . Their purportedly real-life reports inspired The Amityville Horror story and

132-445: A clairvoyant , sees that a dark entity has latched on to the family so that even leaving the house will not free them. To gather evidence, they place cameras and bells around the house with the help of their assistant Drew Thomas and police officer Brad Hamilton. Research reveals that the house once belonged to an accused witch and Satanist named Bathsheba Sherman (a relative of Mary Towne Eastey ), who sacrificed her week-old baby to

198-592: A possessed doll. They allowed the spirit, who claimed to be a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle Higgins, to possess the doll, but the hauntings became more disturbing. The Warrens explain that the doll was never possessed; it was only a conduit for a demonic spirit whose goal was to possess one of the friends. Three years later, in 1971, Roger and Carolyn Perron move into a farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island , with their five daughters: Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cindy, and April. Their dog, Sadie, refuses to enter

264-625: A contract could not be finalized and the deal was dropped. DeRosa-Grund allied with producer Peter Safran . Sibling writers Chad and Carey W. Hayes were brought on board to refine the script. Using DeRosa-Grund's treatment and the Ed Warren tape, the Hayes brothers changed the story's point of view from the Perron family to the Warrens'. The brothers interviewed Lorraine Warren many times over

330-435: A deal was made between New Line and DeRosa-Grund's Evergreen Media Group. "When Insidious came out and was successful, the story about the Warrens came to me and I was like, "Oh, my gosh, this is really cool." [...] But I didn't just want to make another ghost story or another supernatural film. One thing I had never explored was the chance to tell a story that's based on real-life characters, real-life people. So those were

396-519: A different invading force: the ghosts of familiarity." Andrew O'Hehir of Salon said the film provided "all the scream-inducing shocks you could want, right on schedule", but thought the central concept – that the innocent women accused and executed in the Salem witch trials "actually were witches, who slaughtered children and pledged their love to Satan and everything!" – was "reprehensible and inexcusable bullshit". Norma Sutcliffe and Gerald Helfrich,

462-656: A ghost... psychological horror, on the other hand, does not involve violations of physical law, but features naturalistic (if often implausible) menaces and scenarios." Paul Meehan also distinguishes supernatural horror films from psychological horror, "The threat to societal order comes from something preternatural or anomalous: a haunted house, a curse, or a monster like a vampire or a werewolf." Charles Derry, writing in Dark Dreams 2.0 , contrasted supernatural horror and pseudoscientific horror as "two basic methods of explaining things away" in horror stories. Derry wrote, "Into

528-407: A motel, but Carolyn, possessed, takes Christine and April back to the house to kill them. Running out of time, Ed, Lorraine, and Brad tie Carolyn to a chair and Ed attempts the exorcism himself. Carolyn escapes and attempts to kill April; Lorraine is able to call to her by reminding her of a family memory, allowing Ed to complete the exorcism and condemn Bathsheba back to Hell. Returning home, Ed adds

594-399: A pinned drum playing music not on bells but on tuned steel prongs arranged vertically. 1796: Antoine Favre-Salomon , a clockmaker from Geneva replaces the stack of bells by a comb with multiple pre-tuned metallic notes in order to reduce space. Together with a horizontally placed pinned barrel, this produces more varied and complex sounds. One of these first music boxes is now displayed at

660-485: A scale of A to F; it was the first horror film to receive an A grade from the company. In her review following the Los Angeles Film Festival , Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter said, "With its minimal use of digital effects, its strong, sympathetic performances and ace design work, the pic harks back in themes and methods to The Exorcist and The Amityville Horror , not quite attaining

726-426: A steel comb . The popular device best known today as a "music box" developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and were originally called carillons à musique (French for "chimes of music"). Some of the more complex boxes also contain a tiny drum and/or bells in addition to the metal comb. The Symphonium company started business in 1885 as the first manufacturers of disc-playing music boxes. Two of

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792-423: Is The Exorcist (1973). It has an unadjusted gross of over $ 441 million with the original release and 2000 re-release combined; the estimated adjusted gross in 2019 is over $ 1.04 billion . The highest-grossing supernatural horror film, unadjusted for inflation, is It (2017) with a worldwide gross of $ 701 million . In 2013, Variety ' s Andrew Stewart said supernatural horror films grossed more at

858-486: Is notable for the enormous diversity of types, styles, and models produced... No other disc-playing musical box exists in so many varieties. The company also pioneered the use of electric motors... the first model fitted with an electric motor being advertised in 1900. The company moved into the piano-orchestrion business and made both disc-operated and barrel-playing models, player-pianos, and phonographs." Meanwhile, Polyphon expanded to America, where Brachhausen established

924-561: Is rated 15 by the BBFC . The world premiere took place at the closing night of the first edition of Nocturna: Madrid International Fantastic Film Festival on June 8, 2013. This was followed by two screenings of the film at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 21 that also featured a Q&A segment with director James Wan . A red carpet premiere was then held for the film at Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles on July 15, 2013. The Conjuring

990-625: The Motion Picture Production Code (or the Hays Code). The Haunting featured a female protagonist interested in another woman, and she was a queer coded character. Such characters were commonplace in the history of supernatural horror films. Sue Matheson wrote of Rosemary's Baby , "[It] popularized depictions of witchcraft, demonic activity, and the Devil on screen and generated a wave of supernatural horror movies." By

1056-527: The Regina Company . Regina was a spectacular success. It eventually reinvented itself as a maker of vacuums and steam cleaners. In the heyday of the music box, some variations were as tall as a grandfather clock and all used interchangeable large disks to play different sets of tunes. These were spring-wound and driven and both had a bell-like sound. The machines were often made in England, Italy, and

1122-587: The Shanghai Gallery of Antique Music Boxes and Automata in Pudong 's Oriental Art Center . 1877: Thomas Edison invents the phonograph , which has important consequences for the musical-box industry, especially around the end of the century. In 2010 American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny released the album Orchestrion on which he performed alongside a variety of custom-designed and built acoustic and electromechanical orchestrions which comprised

1188-594: The University of North Carolina Wilmington in March 2012 while the campus was on its spring break. Diana Walsh Pasulka , professor of Religious Studies at UNC-Wilmington, was the chief religious consultant for the project. Lorraine Warren spent some time observing the shoot and later recalled that she had expressed no qualms to the filmmakers with how her story was adapted. After wrapping up in Wilmington on April 20,

1254-434: The 1970s, the films The Exorcist (1973) and The Omen (1976) revived the supernatural horror genre. Literature was used as source material like with the earliest films, with the written works of Stephen King being adapted into Carrie (1976) and The Shining (1980). The film Poltergeist (1982) was also a genre highlight in the 1980s. In the 2000s, violent horror films called " torture porn " were popular. By

1320-804: The Spanish Civil War, Colombian armed conflict, and Guatemalan genocide, respectively. Films like Host (2020) reflected contemporary fears, with The Others (2001) and Insidious (2010) revisiting haunted house narratives, and The Conjuring (2013) grounding its story in real-life paranormal investigations. The genre also blended horror with comedy, as in Housebound (2014) and Extra Ordinary (2019), to explore similar themes. The films employed various techniques, such as jump-scares, tension-building, and emotive performances, to examine deep-rooted fears and societal issues. The highest-grossing supernatural horror film, adjusted for inflation,

1386-721: The US, with additional disks made in Switzerland, Austria, and Prussia. Early "juke-box" pay versions of them existed in public places. Marsh's free Museum and curio shop in Long Beach, Washington (US) has several still-working versions of them on public display. The Musical Museum, Brentford , London has a number of machines. The Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey, USA has a notable collection, including interactive exhibits. In addition to video and audio footage of each piece,

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1452-501: The actual instruments are demonstrated for the public daily on a rotational basis. 9th century: In Baghdad , the Banū Mūsā brothers, a trio of Persian inventors , produced "the earliest known mechanical musical instrument", in this case a hydropowered organ which played interchangeable cylinders automatically, which they described in their Book of Ingenious Devices . According to Charles B. Fowler, this "cylinder with raised pins on

1518-713: The associated film franchise . The Warrens come to the assistance of the Perron family, who experienced increasingly disturbing events in their newly occupied farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971. Development of the film began in January 2012 and reports confirmed Wan as the director of a film entitled The Warren Files , later retitled The Conjuring. Production began in Wilmington, North Carolina , in February 2012 and scenes were shot in chronological order. The Conjuring

1584-456: The biggest opening for an original R-rated horror film. For Warner Bros. , The Conjuring surpassed the debut weekend of the distributor's big-budget film Pacific Rim , which had opened to $ 37.3   million the weekend prior. While horror films usually drop at least 50% in their second weekend, The Conjuring only dropped 47%, taking in $ 22.2   million and placing in second behind new release The Wolverine . After its run in theaters,

1650-631: The box office behind The Heat and This Is the End . Its total gross in Australia was $ 8.2   million. In the United Kingdom, the film opened on August 6 alongside The Smurfs 2 , making £2.6   million ($ 3.3   million) in its opening weekend, and grossing $ 16.2   million in total there. It had its biggest international gross in Mexico, opening in first place on August 23, where

1716-1063: The box office than other horror sub-genres. He advised that filmmakers interested in tapping into the profitable market of low-budget horror should focus more on stories about ghosts and the supernatural, as movies about slashers and extreme horror tend to have less consistent commercial success. Joe Tompkins wrote that following the 1950s, many "Gothic and supernatural horror movies utilize dissonance, atonality, and unusual configurations of instruments to signify all sorts of anomalous, paranormal activity". He wrote that Black Sunday (1960) and The Haunting (1963) "make use of atonal clusters, which operate in sharp contrast to tonal music and thus provide antagonistic symbols for supernatural evil and good (respectively)". He also highlighted that The Amityville Horror (1979) and Poltergeist (1982) "employ various thematic materials ranging from soft-sounding lullabies to atonal outbursts". According to Janet K. Halfyard, supernatural horror-comedy films deploy various strategies to using music "to simultaneously locate

1782-462: The development process, Wan offered Bishara the chance to act in the film, which he had previously done in Insidious . "We talked about music first and then James had mentioned that he might want me to play one of the entities in this. After reading the script it turned out it was Bathsheba," said Bishara. Because of his early involvement, Bishara was given more time to work out the musical palette of

1848-421: The devil and killed herself in 1863 at 3:07 in the morning after cursing all who take her land. There have since been reports of numerous murders and suicides through the years in the houses that were built on the land. Bathsheba completely possesses Carolyn. In the cellar, Lorraine sees the spirit of a woman whom Bathsheba had possessed long ago and forced to kill her child, realizing she will force Carolyn to do

1914-534: The dominant cinematic mode of the genre between the release of Dracula (1931) and House of Dracula (1945). In the early 1940s, supernatural horror films had more contemporary settings, but the genre was ultimately superseded by psychological horror films. By the end of World War II, the supernatural horror genre "met its demise", being overshadowed by the atrocities of the war. By the 1950s, science fiction horror films had replaced supernatural horror films, and psychological horror films also became more popular in

1980-829: The end of the decade, supernatural horror reclaimed their popularity. The found footage film The Blair Witch Project had achieved fame in 1999, and in the late 2000s, Paranormal Activity succeeded with the same film technique, which led to a film series that lasted until the mid-2010s. In the first two decades of 21st century, supernatural horror films explored a variety of themes and styles. Movies like Martyrs Lane (2021) focused on grief and loss, while Oculus (2013), Personal Shopper (2016), and Hereditary (2018) explored unfinished family business and personal trauma. The genre also incorporated real historical events, as seen in The Devil's Backbone (2001), Los Silencios (2018), and La Llorona (2019), which draw on

2046-558: The film concluded its principal photography on April 26, 2012. All scenes were shot in chronological order. The film was in post-production in August 2012. Around 20 to 30 minutes of footage was removed from the first cut of the film, which initially ran at about two hours in duration. After positive test screenings, the final edit of the film was locked in December 2012 and awaited its summer release. The musical score for The Conjuring

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2112-560: The film made $ 18.9   million overall. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 86% of 228 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "Well-crafted and gleefully creepy, The Conjuring ratchets up dread through a series of effective old-school scares." Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. CinemaScore reported that audiences gave The Conjuring an "A−" grade on

2178-511: The film opened on July 19, 2013, alongside Red 2 , Turbo and R.I.P.D. , and was projected to gross $ 30–$ 35   million from 2,903 theaters in its opening weekend. The film earned $ 3.3   million from its Thursday night showings and $ 17   million on its first day (including Thursday previews), doing slightly better than The Purge a month earlier. The film went on to gross $ 41.9   million in its opening weekend, landing in first place and breaking The Purge ' s record as

2244-490: The film was officially named a box office hit, grossing over fifteen times its production budget with a worldwide total of $ 318   million. Calculating in all production and promotional expenses, Deadline Hollywood estimated that the film made a total profit of $ 161.7   million. Outside North America, the film had a total gross of $ 180.6   million from all its international markets. In Australia, it grossed $ 1.8   million in its debut weekend, placing third at

2310-801: The film was set for a June 10, 2016, release. The sequel was later re-written by David Leslie Johnson , with a script from Chad and Carey W. Hayes and Wan. The film deals with the Enfield poltergeist case, which occurred in London from 1977 to 1979. It also depicts the Warrens' investigation of the Amityville haunting . Principal photography began in September 2015 in Los Angeles, and concluded in December 2015 in London. The success of The Conjuring has spawned several related films and sequels. Along with

2376-413: The film within—or at least close to—the horror genre, while at the same time encouraging the audience to laugh instead of scream". Music box A music box ( American English ) or musical box ( British English ) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae ) of

2442-422: The film's marketing campaign in February 2013. Throughout the campaign, the film was promoted heavily as "based on a true story." In the weeks leading up to the film's release, trailers and TV spots began to feature the real-life Perron family. This was followed by a featurette titled The Devil's Hour in which Lorraine Warren and other paranormal investigators explain some of the supernatural occurrences seen in

2508-596: The film. Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema initially intended to release The Conjuring in early 2013 but decided on a summer release date after gaining a positive reception from test audiences. The film was ultimately released on July 19 in North America, and in the United Kingdom and in India on August 2. Because of this, it is one of the first horror films to receive a wide release in the United States during

2574-541: The film. "For whatever reason I was hearing brass clustering as an early response to the material, a quiet shimmering flutter tongue effect, and it grew from there", said Bishara on his creative process. A soundtrack album was released by La-La Land Records and WaterTower Music on July 16, 2013. In addition to Bishara's themes, the soundtrack also includes a track titled "Family Theme" by composer Mark Isham . Avant-garde musician Diamanda Galás also contributed to Bishara's score, performing raw vocal improvisation on top of

2640-420: The film. Brittle claimed the film, alongside the subsequent sequel and spin-offs, infringed upon an exclusive contract he had with the Warrens to make any works based on the subject of his book. The film rights were briefly with the original publisher Prentice Hall before reverting to Brittle. Warner Bros. refused to comment on the case. Warner Bros. settled the case with Brittle in December 2017. In June 2013, it

2706-516: The film. That month, Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor were also confirmed for roles in the film, which at that time was developing under the working title of The Untitled Warren Files Project . The film's title was temporarily changed to The Warren Files based on a suggestion by Wan but was later reverted to The Conjuring prior to the start of the film's marketing campaign. In preparation for their roles, Farmiga and Wilson traveled to Connecticut to spend time with Lorraine Warren , who also visited

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2772-559: The founders of the company, Gustave Brachhausen and Paul Riessner, left to set up a new firm, Polyphon , in direct competition with their original business and their third partner, Oscar Paul Lochmann. Following the establishment of the Original Musikwerke Paul Lochmann in 1900, the founding Symphonion business continued until 1909. According to the Victoria Museums in Australia, "The Symphonion

2838-477: The haunted music box from the Perron home to their room of cursed artifacts that they have collected from past cases. Producer Tony DeRosa-Grund wrote the original treatment and titled the project The Conjuring . For nearly 14 years, he tried to get the movie made without any success. He landed a deal to make the movie at Gold Circle Films , the production company behind The Haunting in Connecticut , but

2904-407: The house. The family discovers a boarded-up cellar in the house and paranormal events occur within the first few nights. Every clock in the house stops at 3:07 a.m. Carolyn awakens with new bruises each morning, and Sadie is found dead in the yard. Carolyn and Christine both encounter a malevolent spirit . Carolyn contacts the Warrens, who conduct an initial investigation, during which Lorraine,

2970-649: The months of June or July since 2006's The Omen . A trailer and a clip from the film were shown at the 2012 New York Comic Con . In March 2013, the film was given an R-rating by the MPAA for being what Wan described as "too adult." "When we sent it [to the MPAA], they gave us the R-rating," said executive producer Walter Hamada . "When we asked them why, they basically said, 'It's just so scary. [There are] no specific scenes or tone you could take out to get it PG-13.'" The film

3036-942: The original film, there is 2016's The Conjuring 2 and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It , which was released in 2021. Three films about the Annabelle doll have been made: 2014's Annabelle , its prequel Annabelle: Creation from 2017, and a sequel to both films Annabelle Comes Home from 2019. Two films featuring Valak , the demon nun, have been made: The Nun , released in 2018, and its sequel The Nun II , released in 2023. Supernatural horror film For such films and other media, critics distinguish supernatural horror from psychological horror . Mathias Clasen writes in Why Horror Seduces , "Supernatural horror involves some kind of suspension or breach of physical law, usually embodied in or caused by some kind of supernatural agency such as an uncanny monster or

3102-406: The phone to clarify details. By mid-2009, the property became the subject of a six-studio bidding war that landed the film at Summit Entertainment . However, DeRosa-Grund and Summit could not conclude the transaction and the film went into turnaround . DeRosa-Grund reconnected with New Line Cinema , who had lost in the original bidding war but who ultimately picked up the film. On November 11, 2009,

3168-473: The poignancy and depth of the former but far exceeding the latter in sheer cinematic beauty." Justin Chang of Variety gave the film a positive review, calling the film "a sensationally entertaining old-school freakout and one of the smartest, most viscerally effective thrillers in recent memory." Alonso Duralde of TheWrap also praised the effectiveness of the film, explaining that it "doesn't try to reinvent

3234-434: The previous owners bought the house in 1987 and lived "in peace" until 2012. Both owners were seeking unspecified damages. When questioned, a spokesperson for Warner Bros. declined to comment on the issue; the case was dismissed in December 2017. Gerald Brittle, the author of the 1980 book The Demonologist about Ed and Lorraine Warren, filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros., New Line Productions and director James Wan regarding

3300-418: The previous owners of the house on which the film was based, sued James Wan, Warner Bros. and other producers in 2015, on the ground that their property was being vandalized constantly as a consequence of the film. Entertainment Weekly obtained documents in which the owners affirmed various invasions and ratified that they had found numerous objects affiliated with satanic cults. The lawsuit also revealed that

3366-584: The previously recorded brass instrumentation. Other songs featured in the film include: "In the Room Where you Sleep" by Dead Man's Bones , " Sleep Walk " by Betsy Brye and " Time of the Season " by The Zombies . The first promotional images were released in November 2012, introducing Farmiga and Wilson as Ed and Lorraine Warren. A teaser trailer, previously shown at the 2012 New York Comic Con , kicked off

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3432-630: The rest of the "band", playing music in real-time through the MIDI file format. In March 2016, the band Wintergatan released a video of their homemade Marble Machine which took 14 months to make and played in any key using a 3,000-piece wooden construction fueled by 2,000 marbles. Band member Martin Molin used a hand crank to mobilize the marbles, which then created various noises on a vibraphone and other installed musical elements. In 1974–1975, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen composed Tierkreis ,

3498-490: The same decade, ultimately eclipsing supernatural horror. The few supernatural horror films that were produced in the 1950s were often set in haunted houses , a continuation of haunted-house films prevalent in the 1940s. In the 1960s, horror films like The Innocents (1961), The Haunting (1963), and Rosemary's Baby (1968) used supernatural elements but were not directly about the paranormal. Other horror films used supernatural themes to code elements being censored by

3564-518: The same. The Warrens conclude they have sufficient evidence to receive authorization from the Catholic Church to perform an exorcism , but Father Gordon explains that approval would have to come directly from the Vatican because the Perron family are not members of the church. The Warrens' daughter Judy is attacked by Bathsheba as a warning to the Warrens. The Perron family takes refuge at

3630-721: The set during production. Over the course of spending three days at the Warren home, both actors took in information that could not otherwise be achieved from secondary research. "I just wanted to absorb her essence. I wanted to see the details, she has such mad style. I just wanted to see – the way she communicates with her hands, these gestures, her smile, how she moves through space," said Farmiga on her observations of Warren. Principal photography began in late February 2012. Lasting for 38 days, shooting took place primarily at EUE/Screen Gems Studios as well as other locations in and around Wilmington, North Carolina . Filming also took place at

3696-428: The supernatural group one could fit all the monsters and horrors that are somehow involved with religions and ritual," highlighting witchcraft, Egyptology and reincarnation, and zombies. Aaron Smuts considers horror "to be a genre with two main sub-types, supernatural horror and realist horror" and that they "have different charms". While fictional horror-themed literature, theatre, and other visual culture had existed,

3762-467: The supernatural such as The Gray Ghost (1917) with no actual narratives involving supernatural events. The supernatural horror film had what author Paul Meehan described as "its genesis" in early German expressionism in the 1920s and early 1930s with films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu . During the Universal Studios first horror film cycle, supernatural horror was

3828-423: The superstructure. The barrel can be programmed, as the pins can be separately placed in the holes provided on the surface of the barrel. 1665: Ahasuerus Fromanteel in London makes a table clock which has quarter striking and musical work on multiple bells operated by a pinned barrel. These barrels can be changed for those playing different tunes. 1772: A watch is made by one Ransonet at Nancy, France which has

3894-415: The surface remained the basic device to produce and reproduce music mechanically until the second half of the nineteenth century." Early 13th century: In Flanders , an ingenious bell ringer invents a cylinder with pins which operates cams, which then hit the bells. 1598: Flemish clockmaker Nicholas Vallin produces a wall-mounted clock which has a pinned barrel playing on multiple tuned bells mounted in

3960-417: The terms "horror film" and "horror movie" as known in a contemporary term did not become common place until 1931 and 1932. Film serials became popular in the United States in 1913. Supernatural events and characters in 1910s film serials were rare. Only two serials explored the supernatural at length, with The Mysteries of Myra (1916) and The Screaming Shadow (1920) while most serials which suggested

4026-471: The things that led me to The Conjuring ." – James Wan , explaining his reason for directing The Conjuring . Pre-production began in early 2011, with reports surfacing in early June that James Wan was in talks to direct the film. This was later confirmed by Warner Bros. , which also stated that the film would be loosely based on real-life events surrounding Ed and Lorraine Warren. In January 2012, Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson were cast to star in

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4092-527: The tropes of horror movies, whether it's ghosts or demons or exorcisms, but Fred Astaire didn't invent tap-dancing, either." Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A−, citing the effectiveness of "mood and sound effects for shocks that never feel cheap." Some critics reacted negatively to the film's similarities with films such as The Exorcist and Poltergeist . Indiewire 's Eric Kohn explained that, "The Warrens may know how to handle demonic possessions, but The Conjuring suffers from

4158-415: Was composed by Joseph Bishara, who previously collaborated with director Wan on Insidious (2011). "James asked me early on about [ The Conjuring ] while the film was still coming together", explained Bishara on his involvement. "The studio and producers were very supportive in allowing him to bring along who he wanted, with many of his longtime crew from Insidious and even earlier returning." Further into

4224-511: Was released in DVD and Blu-ray formats by Warner Home Video on October 22, 2013. On May 31, 2022, it was released alongside other The Conjuring Universe films in Blu-ray format. The Conjuring grossed $ 137.4   million in North America and $ 182.1   million in other territories for a worldwide total of $ 319.5   million, against a budget of $ 20   million. In North America,

4290-485: Was released in the United States and Canada on July 19, 2013, by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema . It received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $ 319   million worldwide against its $ 20   million budget. A sequel, The Conjuring 2 , was released in 2016. In 1968, renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate the Annabelle case, in which friends Debbie and Camilla have

4356-486: Was reported that New Line Cinema was already developing a sequel . Both Farmiga and Wilson were signed on to reprise their roles for an additional film. The Conjuring 2 was scheduled to be released on October 23, 2015, but in October 2014, Warner Bros. moved the film's release date to an unspecified 2016 release date. On October 21, it was announced that James Wan would return to direct the sequel. On November 11, 2014,

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