The Conjuring 3 Takes a Lot of Creative Liberties, Especially With This Character

The Conjuring 3 Takes a Lot of Creative Liberties, Especially With This Character

THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT, Eugenie Bondurant, 2021.  Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection

As you’ve probably already guessed, the Conjuring movies, while based on Ed and Lorraine Warren’s actual investigations, don’t exactly follow reality beat by beat. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, or The Conjuring 3, is no exception. The latest addition to the Conjuring universe follows the infamous 1981 case of Arne Cheyenne Johnson (Ruairi O’Connor), a young man who claimed in court that the devil made him kill his landlord Alan Bono. The film doesn’t go through Johnson’s legal proceedings with a fine comb — the horror movie focuses more on how an occultist named Isla (Eugenie Bondurant) curses Johnson and his girlfriend Debbie Glatze