By: Kendra Shanklin

*Warning: this review contains spoilers

‘The Recap’

‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ is a horror movie that was released on September 5th, 2025. It’s about a married couple named Ed and Lorraine Warren who were paranormal investigators and also help families get evil spirits out of their homes. The movie is rated ‘R’ for its bloody images, violent content, and terror.

In previous movie’s investigations, they have had bad entities but nothing ever experienced like this before. This movie’s investigation is one of the worst they had and is what brought their careers to an end.

In the first half of the movie there’s a flashback of Ed and Lorraine as they had investigated a haunted antique mirror. Lorraine goes up to the mirror and says to it that she can feel the spirit. When Lorraine touches the mirror she is sent into early labor, and out of nowhere she sees a vision of a demonic entity and her unborn child. She gives birth to her daughter Judy, who is a stillborn child but survives.

In the present day of 1986, Ed and Lorraine are now older and now already thinking about retiring from paranormal investigations. But they get a call from a family about how their daughter, named Heather, is getting haunted by a mirror that she was gifted from her grandparents.

A little while later Heather is about to blow the candles off her cake but magically it blows out by itself. Instantly she blames her sister Dawn. They start bickering but then they brush it off. Then, out of nowhere, the light from above Heather comes down and hits her in the head and she falls to the ground and starts bleeding.

A little while later Heather and Dawn are in the room together and Heather says that she feels weird about the mirror and hates how creepy it is. So they make a plan to take it out to the trash, The next morning everyone is eating breakfast and Dawn says she doesn’t feel good. She starts gagging and throwing up blood; everyone is shocked and screaming.

‘My Review’

When I saw the trailer of the movie I already knew I wanted to watch it because I always loved ‘The Conjuring’, and just scary movies in general.

But one thing I love about this movie is that it shows all the backstories leading up to what happened and even sometimes other backstories from the previous Conjuring movies. But I do wish it has a little more jump scares and things to make the movie more scary like how it is in the other Conjuring movies because it’s mostly just a lot of talking.

But either way the movie was pretty good and it’s based on a true story so that’s what makes it already kinda creepy.

If you like horror movies that are based on a true story and that scare you, I’d recommend this movie for you.

Remember that this movie is rated R because of the blood and terror, so if you’re watching this around children be careful. But overall, I give this movie a 9/10 rating

Thank you a lot for reading this review I really hope you’re willing to watch this movie after seeing my review 🤍You can watch ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, or in theaters.