Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson in “Conjuring 3: Under the influence of the devil” by Michael Chave – Ben Rothstein / Warner France
- “Conjuring 3: Under the influence of the devil” looks back on a murder case that actually took place in the early 1980s.
- The Warrens, the paranormal investigator couple from the Conjuring saga, try to save a young man possessed by an evil spirit.
- Michael Chaves, the director of “The Curse of the White Lady” takes pleasure in being inspired by a news item to make you shiver.
What if it really happened? One of the most popular sagas in recent horror cinema is based on this premise. Conjuring 3: under the influence of the devil goes even further in anguish than its predecessors. “What amazed me in this story, confides the director to 20 minutes, is that it was the first time that a court admitted that a man was possessed by the demon. This story haunted me. “
The Warren couple, our paranormal investigators played by Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, try to come to the aid of a young man who really existed and just as really killed his owner during a fit of madness in the early 1980s. “Arne Cheyenne Johnson is still alive,” says Michael Chaves, as well as his wife. I felt a great responsibility, especially since someone really lost their life in this story and I didn’t want to disrespect anyone. The murder scene is shown modestly, but the director of The Curse of the White Lady nevertheless let loose on the exorcism sessions.
An exorcism “for real”
With the support of James Wan, director turned producer of the saga, the filmmaker has done serious research and surrounded himself with advisers to show how the possessed are powerless to resist demons, even in front of a priest seasoned in the practice of exorcisms. “These passages of the film had to be based on reality while being cinematographic,” he says. Contortionist Emerald Gordon Wulf has assisted in moving victims into positions that seem, at first glance, impossible for the human body to perform. “The fact that it is a real actor who twists rather than using special effects added uneasiness, insists Michael Chavez. We have the impression that his movements are “visceral” “
To better make the public jump from his seat, Michael Chaves slipped into his film an authentic archive document. “It is the exorcism session that was filmed in reality,” insists the filmmaker. Everyone will decide what is true or false according to their beliefs and their ears! This chilling recording is ten times more terrifying than the rest of Conjuring 3 which reserves however its cash of chills. It makes you wonder if spirits have not wandered into the cinema, so much does reality seem to join fiction.