The Conjuring (2013)

Rob Cowan

The Safran Company

Evergreen Media Group

## Overview

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 the house. They discover the entrance to a cellar which has been boarded up.

Paranormal events occur within the first few nights. Every clock in the house stops at 3:07 AM, birds fly into their windows, Sadie is found dead in the morning, and Carolyn wakes up with large bruises. One night, Christine encounters a malevolent spirit. Another night, Carolyn hears clapping in the hallway and becomes trapped in the basement. Andrea and Cindy are attacked in their bedroom by a spirit believed to be the one that Christine had encountered.

Carolyn contacts demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, who have recently investigated a possessed doll called Annabelle. The Warrens agree to take the case and conduct an initial investigation, during which Lorraine, a clairvoyant, sees that dark forces have latched on to the Perron family, and leaving the house will not free them. To gather evidence, they place cameras, recorders, and bells around the house with the help of their assistant Drew Thomas and police officer Brad Hamilton. Further research reveals that the house once belonged to an accused witch named Bathsheba Sherman (a relative of Mary Towne Eastey), who sacrificed her week-old baby to the devil and killed herself in 1863 at 3:07 in the morning after cursing all who take her land. They find reports of numerous murders and suicides through the years in the houses that were built on the property.

One morning, Bathsheba appears to Carolyn and vomits black bile into her mouth, fully possessing her. Lorraine sees Bathsheba's corpse hanging in the tree behind the house. That night, from the EVPs coming from the radio, the group hears a spirit luring Cindy into the wardrobe, where she reveals a secret passage. Lorraine enters the passage and falls through the floorboards to the cellar, where she sees the spirit of a woman whom Bathsheba had possessed long ago and used to kill her child. Lorraine loses a locket containing a picture of the Warrens' daughter, Judy. Bathsheba attacks Nancy; the incident is caught on camera. The Warrens conclude it is sufficient evidence to receive authorization from the Catholic Church to perform an exorcism on the house. The Perron family decides to take refuge at a motel while Ed and Lorraine take their evidence to Father Gordon, their liaison at the Catholic Church. Father Gordon explains that the approval for the exorcism would have to come directly from the Vatican because the Perron family aren't members of the church.

Judy is attacked in the Warrens' own home by Bathsheba who was sitting on a chair and used Annabelle, before being narrowly saved by her father. Annabelle returns in the box and Bathsheba returns to her own land. Carolyn takes Christine and April back to the house to kill them. Ed, Lorraine, and Brad find Carolyn in the cellar trying to stab Christine, as Roger and Drew fight to stop her. Lorraine warns Ed, Roger and Drew that if they take Carolyn outside the house, Bathsheba will kill her. The group tied Carolyn to a chair inside, Ed decides that the exorcism cannot wait and decides to attempt it himself. Though Carolyn escapes and attempts to kill April, Lorraine is able to call to Carolyn by reminding her of a special memory she shared with her family, allowing Ed to complete the exorcism and save them, lifting Bathsheba's curse, forcing her to reveal herself to those present and damning her to Hell. After expelling Bathsheba from Carolyn’s body, the Perron family reunites. April gives Lorraine the locket that she lost in the cellar. Returning home, Ed adds the haunted music box from the farmhouse to their room of cursed artifacts that they have collected from past cases.

## Cast

* Vera Farmiga as Lorraine Warren
* Patrick Wilson as Ed Warren
* Lili Taylor as Carolyn Perron
* Ron Livingston as Roger Perron
* Shanley Caswell as Andrea Perron
* Hayley McFarland as Nancy Perron
* Joey King as Christine Perron
* Mackenzie Foy as Cindy Perron
* Kyla Deaver as April Perron
* Shannon Kook as Drew Thomas
* John Brotherton as Brad Hamilton
* Sterling Jerins as Judy Warren
* Marion Guyot as Georgiana Moran
* Steve Coulter as Father Gordon
* Joseph Bishara as Bathsheba Sherman
* Morganna May as Debbie
* Amy Tipton as Camilla
* Zach Pappas as Rick
* Christof Veillon as Maurice Theriault
* Lorraine Warren as woman in audience (uncredited)