RFK0513 Flickinger

I reacted to Last Rites pretty much like the last Conjuring movie (The Devil Made Me Do It): might have been a decent horror movie if I hadn't been asked to believe it was true. However, that just ruined it for me. I kept rolling my eyes and thinking "yeah, sure". I'm not trying to say demons, ghost, spirits, etc. don't exist - like the man says: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy". What I do say is that makers of these type of films, TV shows have a strong motivation to embellish and invent and that is just what they do. Whatever happened to the Smurl family may have been supernatural (questionable), may have been difficult, but not likely the flashy dramatics or even the connection to the Warrens as portrayed in The Conjuring: Last Rites. A little research on the Warrens themselves make it appear that they were not the saints they are depicted in the movie(s). The previous attempt to tell this story, the made-for-tv The Haunted from 1991 was a good deal more believable/plausible. Enjoy the newest Conjuring movie, if you can, as just another horror fiction, but I wouldn't swallow too much of it (if any) as fact.