Picture this: A controversial standup comedian buys the house where demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren used to live and becomes the legal guardian of the cursed Annabelle doll that resides inside. He starts to record these viral bits with the various haunted artifacts from across the Warrens’ caseload, but then things take a terrible demonic turn.
Would you watch that movie? Michael Chaves, the director behind some of the Conjuring movies’ biggest titles, including this weekend’s The Conjuring: Last Rites, would!
Chaves semi-jokingly but also semi-seriously pitched this concept when asked for his reaction to the news that comic Matt Rife purchased the Connecticut home/occult museum previously owned by the Warrens.
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The Annabelle doll in 2013’s ‘The Conjuring’
“It does though feel like a great new chapter. If there ever was a Phase 2 of the [Conjuring] series, I think that it should begin with him just turning these viral bits with each one of the artifacts and it just goes horribly wrong,” Chaves tells Entertainment Weekly.
The filmmaker ultimately has “no idea” why Rife did what he did.
“I have officially purchased Ed and Lorraine Warren’s home and Occult Museum,” Rife wrote on Instagram in early August, “including being the legal guardian for at least the next 5 years, of the entire haunted collection including THE ANNABELLE DOLL, with my good friend [Elton Castee]!!”
Rife noted in that post how he’s “obsessed with the paranormal and all things haunted,” while naming the Conjuring franchise as “my favorite scary movies of all time.”
“I’m deeply concerned…deeply concerned,” Chaves says, laughing. “I dunno. As long as he’s got the instruction manual or whatever the blessing procedure is, I’m sure it will all be fine. I guess I am curious. I haven’t read enough about it to know why he did it.”
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A ghost from ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’
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“I’d love to pick his brain,” Conjuring star Vera Farmiga previously told PEOPLE of the matter.
“I am curious,” her cohort, Patrick Wilson, added. “I can’t imagine the people that live on that street want lines of cars paying money to go into the house.”
The Conjuring: Last Rites is meant to serve as the final outing of Wilson and Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren on screen. There’s been some talk about possibly proceeding with a Phase 2 of the film series, but so far nothing has been announced except an HBO Max series set in the same horror world. Maybe Rife is ripe for a cameo.
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