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With the release of the latest Conjuring movie: The Conjuring: Last Rites , I thought I’d sit down and bang out a little article, a little essay, about one of my favorite weird corners of horror cinema: those movies that are actually based on true incidents. True stories. Real-life events. And sometimes that’s really hard to believe, because when you watch these movies, they’re so over the top, so insane, so terrifying, you’d never in a million years think, “Oh yeah, that to

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, September 5th, 2025. 1) THE CONJURING: LAST RITES So here we are, allegedly at the end. The Conjuring: Last Rites is being sold as the final entry in the mainline series, the fourth "Conjuring" film, the ninth overall in the so-called Conjuring Universe . A universe I could live without. I'll be honest: I like