"DEBBIE:" "It scares us just thinking about it." "When you hear it, you're gonna think we're insane." "ED:" "Try us." "Please, from the start." "DEBBIE:" "It started out small, like a hand or a leg was in a different position." "Then its head was looking up instead of down." "And then one day, it was in a completely different room." "It was moving around by itself." "ED:" "Ever think maybe somebody had a key to your apartment and was playing a trick?" "DEBBIE:" "That's exactly what we thought." "But never once did we find any sign or evidence of intrusion." "LORRAINE:" "And this all led you to believe that the doll was possessed?" "Yes." "Camilla got in touch with a medium." "We learned from her that a 7-year-old girl named Annabelle Higgins had died in this apartment." "She was lonely and took a liking to my doll." "All she wanted was to be friends." "When we heard this, we felt really sorry for her." "I mean, we're nurses, we help people." "So we gave her permission to move into the doll." "ED:" "Wait, you did what?" "She wanted to live with us by inhabiting the doll." "We said yes." "But then things got worse." "[GIRLS LAUGHING]" "God." "CAMILLA:" "When we came home, she was sitting in the hallway." "But we had left her in the spare room." "[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]" "[CAMILLA GASPS]" "[WOODEN THUNK]" "Debbie!" "Debbie, wait!" "[BANGING ON DOOR]" "[BANGING CONTINUES]" "[BANGING ON DOOR]" "[GASPS]" "DEBBIE:" "We are beyond terrified." "We don't know what's going on or what to do." "Can you help us?" "Yes, we can." "Now, firstly, there's no such thing as Annabelle, and there never was." "LORRAINE:" "Ghosts don't possess such power." "I think what we have here is something extremely manipulative." "It's something inhuman." "It was a big mistake acknowledging this doll." "And through that, the inhuman spirit tricked you." "You gave it permission to infest your lives." "What's an inhuman spirit?" "It's something that's never walked the earth in human form." "It's something demonic." "DEBBIE:" "So the doll was never possessed?" "No, no, it was used as a conduit." "It was moved around to give the impression of possession." "Demonic spirits don't possess things, they possess people." "It wanted to get inside of you." "ED:" "All right, that's good, Drew." "You can shut it down now." "Hit the lights." "So we got the church to send a priest over to bless the house and the occupants." "Whatever was oppressing that apartment was no longer with them." "Any questions?" "[PEOPLE CHATTERING]" "Yes." "Where's the doll now?" "Someplace safe." " Yep." " So, what are you guys?" "I mean, what do people call you?" "Uh, well, we've been called Demonologists." "That's one name for us." "Ghost hunters, paranormal researchers." " Kooks." "ALL:" "Ha-ha-ha." "Wackos." "But we prefer to be known simply as Ed and Lorraine Warren." "[CHILDREN SINGING INDISTINCTLY]" "ROGER:" "Here we are." "Wow, hear that?" " I don't hear anything." " Exactly." "Oh." "Ha!" " Okay." "Guys, we are here!" "NANCY:" "Get out of the car." "Oh, God, we're in the middle of nowhere." "CAROLYN:" "Are you so excited?" "Where's my "yes"?" "Where's my "yes"?" "Yes!" "ROGER:" "I'll race you!" "CAROLYN:" "Are you guys excited?" "CHRISTINE:" "Yes!" "CAROLYN:" "I'm so excited!" "APRIL:" "Come on, Sadie!" "I get my own room!" "Are you kidding me?" "No dibs on the rooms!" " What?" " What?" "So do I get to pick my own room?" "Or do I have no choice in that either?" "Well, first cute boy she meets, she'll forget about Jersey." " Great." " I hope." "ROGER:" "I can't wait." "Come on, Sadie." "Sadie, let's go." "Hey, come." "What's the matter with you?" "Hey, come on, girl." "All right, suit yourself." "[WHIMPERS]" "[STATIC ON RADIO]" "[THE ZOMBIES' "TIME OF THE SEASON" PLAYING ON RADIO]" " What's your name?" " What's your name?" " Who's your daddy?" " Who's your daddy?" " He rich?" " Is he rich like me?" "ROGER:" "Watch your step." "NANCY:" "Coming through." "Whoa, watch out, Dad." "MAN:" "Where do you want it?" " In the living room." " Andrea, where's my wind chime?" " I think Nancy's got it in the other room." "Thanks." "Hey, Nancy, have you seen my wind chime?" " Oh, this one?" "CINDY:" "Yeah, thanks." " You're gonna have to catch it." " Nancy!" "Let go!" "Give it here." "You're so mean." "Hey, Mom, can I hang up my wind chime?" "Of course." "There's a line outside you can hang it on." "Honey, have April come in, okay?" "It's gonna be dark soon." "Okay." "Come on, April!" "Mom wants us inside!" "APRIL:" "Look what I found, Cindy." "[MUSIC PLAYING FROM MUSIC BOX]" "GIRLS:" "One two three." "Come on, come on, come on." "No peeking." "Four." "Are you guys done with the pizza?" "I don't want it going to waste." " Let's go." "ROGER:" "It's expensive feeding you girls." "Seven, eight, nine, ten." "Where should I hide?" "CHRISTINE:" "Ready or not, here I come!" "Okay, clap." "[CLAPPING]" " Whoa!" " You don't know the house well enough." "Someone's gonna get hurt." "I'm okay, I'm okay." "Second clap." "[CLAPPING]" "[WHISPERS] That's cheating." "Clap." " Got you!" " Aah!" " Are you okay?" "Um..." "NANCY:" "Yeah." "All right, what did we break now?" " I didn't mean to." " Move out of there, please." "It was Christine's fault." " Oh, jeez." "CHRISTINE:" "My fault?" "Oh, my God." "NANCY:" "Christine did it." "CHRISTINE:" "No, I didn't." "NANCY:" "You pushed me." "CHRISTINE:" "No, no, you fell back." "Hey, Nancy, can you go get me the matches, please?" "What's going on?" "CHRISTINE:" "Nancy broke something." "NANCY:" "Shut up." "CAROLYN:" "What broke?" "APRIL:" "It's the wall." " Whoa." " I think we have a cellar or something." "CINDY:" "I wanna see, I wanna see." "Move, move, move." "Here, matches." "Thank you." "CINDY:" "I wanna see." "CAROLYN:" "You can see." "NANCY:" "I wanna see." "CAROLYN:" "You can all see." "APRIL:" "Move!" "Oh, man." "Huh." "CAROLYN:" "Roger?" "What do you see down there?" "Just, uh, hard to tell, you know?" "It's an old piano and a whole bunch of garbage." "Agh." "Son of a..." "Wow." "CAROLYN:" "Rog?" "Come on up." "I don't want you girls going down there." " That place is loaded with spiders." " Ew!" "Just relax." "Okay." "CHRISTINE:" "Stop it, Nancy." "It's not funny." "We've got extra square footage anyway." "I'll check it out in the morning." " I wonder why it was boarded up." " I don't know." "CAROLYN:" "Okay, show's over." "CINDY:" "Five minutes." "ROGER:" "No more minutes." "CAROLYN:" "Up to bed." "Please." "Thank you." "ROGER:" "Right to bed." "[SADIE BARKING]" "ROGER:" "Man, I'm fried." "CAROLYN:" "Something's up with Sadie." "Yeah, I don't know what her problem is." "Couldn't get her to come inside." "CAROLYN:" "We can't leave her out there." "ROGER:" "She's all right." "I got her on a chain." "Sadie, hey, be quiet." "Thanks for making this work." "I know it was a lot to bite off." "It's gonna be great, isn't it?" "I think it's great already." "Yeah." "You still too fried to christen the new house?" "Who said I'm fried?" " Ain't nobody here's fried." " Ha, ha." "[FLOORBOARD CREAKING]" "CHRISTINE:" "Mom?" "CAROLYN:" "Hey." "How did you guys sleep?" "I'm cold." "It is chilly, isn't it?" "You think maybe we could have bought a house with a toilet that actually works?" "CAROLYN:" "Tell your father." "And there was a funky smell in my room last night." "Like something died." " Is it still there?" " No." "Problem solved." "[FAINT THUD]" "Roger?" "Roger?" "ROGER:" "Down here, honey." "Morning." "Ooh." "Whoa." "This is gonna take some serious elbow grease." "Yeah." "Oh, my God." "[PIANO PLAYING DISCORDANTLY]" "What are we gonna do with all this stuff?" "Well, we probably ought to go through it, you know?" "There might be some antiques down here worth a lot." "Yeah, or just a lot of junk the previous owner didn't want." " It's ours now." " Knock yourself out." " I'm gonna make some coffee." " Okay." "I'm gonna see if I can get this furnace working." "Yeah, that'd be nice." "It's freezing." "Yeah." "Hmm." "APRIL:" "Sadie!" "Come here, Sadie!" "Mommy!" "Mommy, where's Sadie?" "She's outside." "You know, I'm sure she's hungry by now." "Why don't you go and get her." " Whoa." " Morning, Dad." " Can you hold this?" " Sure." " Sadie!" "ROGER:" "Slow it down, Scoot." "CAROLYN:" "Roger." " Yeah." "This clock stopped at 3:07, and so did the one in the hallway." "That's weird." "Maybe it got knocked around in the move." "Speaking of knocked around, what did you do to me last night?" " Ouch." "I didn't do that." "Did I?" " I don't know." "Sadie!" "[APRIL SCREAMING]" "April!" "April!" "What's...?" "April!" "What's going on?" " What happened?" " Oh, my God!" "Oh, Sadie." "ED:" "We keep everything locked in here." "Feel free to look around." "Just don't touch anything." "Wow." "This is crazy." "So all these are taken from cases you've investigated?" "That's right." "Everything you see in here is either haunted, cursed or has been used in some kind of ritualistic practice." "Nothing's a toy." "Not even the toy monkey." "Don't touch it." "Oh, ahem." "Well, isn't it scary, or doesn't it worry you to have all these items right in your home?" "That's why we have a priest that comes by once a month to bless the room." "Well, the way I see it is:" "It's safer for these things to be in here than out there." "It's kind of like keeping guns off the street." "Why not just throw them in an incinerator?" "Destroy them." "Well, that would only destroy the vessel." "Sometimes it's better to keep the genie in the bottle." "Say, is the, uh, Annabelle doll here?" "Right this way." "Yeah." " You said she's a conduit?" " That's right." "What does that mean?" "A very powerful demonic has latched itself onto her." "So when you guys investigate these hauntings how do you stop them from latching onto you?" "We have to take great precaution." "But what about your wife?" "What about her?" "Well, Father Gordon told me that..." "Well, that was different." "What happened to my wife happened during an exorcism." "Well, what's the difference?" "[FLOORBOARD CREAKS]" "Excuse me." "Honey, what are you doing?" "Come here." "You know better." "All right?" "Georgiana?" " Come on." "Did you touch anything?" "JUDY:" "No." "ED:" "All right, come on, honey." " Georgiana!" "Could you take Judy upstairs?" " Oh, sure." "You can't go into this room, no matter what, remember?" " Yes, Daddy." " All right." " Go on." " Okay, come on." "Let's see if I can find you a little snack, okay?" "Come on." "[LAUGHING]" "Hey." "What's going on in here?" "JUDY:" "Daddy, look." " You look very pretty." "All right, all done." "Go get dressed for dinner." "JUDY:" "I'm wearing it to dinner." " No, you're not!" "Here you go." "How'd it go?" "Oh, I think he may write a positive article." "Ooh, a non-skeptic." "That's a pleasant change." "Yeah." "Stop blaming yourself." "No sugar." "Be right back." "[TICKING]" "[TICKING STOPS]" "[GROANS]" "Not funny, Nancy." "NANCY:" "What?" "Stop grabbing my foot." "Shut up, I didn't do anything." "Yeah, right." "And stop farting." "It really stinks." "Don't blame that on me." "It's you." "Pew." "[THUDDING]" "[THUDDING CONTINUES]" "[DOOR CREAKING]" "[THUDDING]" "[DOOR CREAKING]" "[THUDDING]" "Dad?" "Andrea, what are you doing out of bed?" "What's that sound?" "It's Cindy." "She's in my room." "She's sleepwalking again." "[THUDDING]" "I've never seen her do this before." "I remembered you saying not to wake her if she's like this." "No, we just put her back to bed." "Hey, hey." "Sweetie." "Shh." "Let's go back to bed." "She's okay." "Good night." "Night." "CAROLYN:" "She's sleepwalking again?" "She hasn't done that for awhile." "She ended up in Andrea's room too." "I think kind of freaked her out." " That's not good." "What are we gonna do?" " I don't know." " Honey, you got another bruise here." " Hmm?" "Does that hurt?" "That's weird." "I don't know." "Will you do me a favor, go see a doctor for that?" " Yeah, I will." "Drive safe." " Yeah." " I love you." " I love you too." "[THUD]" "[PIGEON COOING]" "Bye!" "Love you!" " Cindy, you have your lunch?" " Yeah." "APRIL:" "Yes, I do." "I miss Sadie a lot." "She was my best friend." "You're my friend, right?" "Yeah, let's play." " Who are you talking to?" " Rory." "Rory?" " He's my new friend." " Oh, really?" " Yeah, do you want to see him?" " Yeah." "Uh-huh." "How?" "With this." "When the music stops, you see him in the mirror standing behind you." "Okay." "But you have to twist the key." "Okay." "[MUSIC BOX PLAYING]" " Boo, Mommy!" "Ha-ha!" " Oh!" " April, you just gave me a heart attack." " Got you!" "Well, okay, I guess Rory doesn't want to see me, huh?" "Hmm." "Oh, well." "Can we play hide-and-clap?" "Hide-and-cla...?" "Oh, honey, I don't want to play." " Please!" "Nobody ever lets me play." " Okay, okay." "Remember, you get to ask me for three claps." "Okay." "One, two, three." " I'm gonna go hide now!" " Okay." "Four, five six, seven eight, nine ten!" "First clap!" "[CLAPPING]" "[CLOCK TOLLING]" "Ow." "Shit." "Second clap!" "[CLAPPING]" "April." "[HUMS]" "April." "[CREAKING]" "Oh, I know where you're hiding." "Give me the third clap." "[CLAPPING]" "[CHUCKLES]" "I'm gonna get you now." "[WHEEZING]" "I can hear you breathing." "April." "April." "[FOOTSTEPS]" "Ha, ha." "You took your blindfold off." "I win!" "You weren't even warm, Mom." "I was in Christine and Nancy's room." "ROGER:" "I gotta have some routes here, or I'm gonna lose the insurance on the rig." "[CHUCKLES]" "That's like half of my rate, man." "Yeah, okay." "I'll, uh..." "Yeah, I'll take it." "Thank you." " What's the route?" " It's, uh, Florida." "It's a week turnaround." "I start tomorrow." "We'll get through this." "Yeah." "Come on, let's go to bed." "Stop it, Nancy." "It's not funny anymore." "I'm trying to sleep, please stop grabbing my feet." "[GASPS]" "[CREAKING]" "[CREAKING CONTINUES]" "[GASPING]" "[CHRISTINE WHIMPERING]" "Nancy?" "Nancy?" "What are you doing?" "Christine?" "Are you all right?" "Do you see it?" "See what?" "There's someone behind the door." "What?" "There's someone standing over there." "I don't see anyone." "It's looking right at us." "Nancy, don't!" "Nancy." "No, no." "Look." "Look." "Look, there's no one here." "See?" "Ugh." "It's that smell again." "Oh, my God." "It's standing right behind you." "[CHRISTINE SCREAMING]" "Christine?" "!" "Christine!" "Christine!" "God, it won't op..." " Christine!" " No!" "No!" "No!" " What's going on?" "What happened?" " There was someone else in here!" " What?" "ROGER:" "Where?" "CHRISTINE:" "By the door." "It was behind the door." "Honey, there's nothing in here." "There's nobody in here." "There was someone else in here!" "I was just sleeping, and then I felt somebody grab my feet." "So I thought it was Nancy." "ROGER:" "Well, honey, I'm pretty sure that it was just a bad dream." "No!" "It talked to me!" "It said that it wants my family dead." "[CHRISTINE CRYING]" "LORRAINE:" "Mr. Winston!" "JUDY:" "Winston?" "Winston?" "LORRAINE:" "Get behind him." "Where you off to?" "I just gotta run to the store for a few things." " Why do you even try?" " What?" "What do you mean?" "In 15 years have you ever been able to lie to me?" "Father Gordon called." "He's got a case he wants us to look into." "I said I'd go check it out myself." "Lorraine, myself." "I'm going with you." "I know you're worried it's gonna happen again." "Yeah, I am." "I really am." "Maybe it's just time we take a break." "Write that book." "Do you remember what you said to me on our wedding night?" ""Can we do it again?"" "After that." "[BOTH LAUGH]" "You said that God brought us together for a reason." "Right?" "I'm pretty sure it's not to write a book." "I'm gonna get dressed." "LORRAINE:" "We've isolated the disturbances to the attic." "I want you to listen for a second." "[CREAKING]" "Oh, my God, that's it." "Do it again, Ed." "[CREAKING]" "Right now it's just my weight." "But you take the water coming off the pipe these boards are gonna expand and rub against each other." "You heard it all through the house because of these pipes leading to the radiator." "So this place isn't haunted?" "No, it rarely is." "Yeah, there's usually always some kind of rational explanation." "[BETTE ANNE STEELE'S "SLEEP WALK" PLAYING QUIETLY ON RADIO]" "[GIRLS GIGGLING]" "[MUSIC STOPS]" "[CLAPPING]" "Girls, it's way past your bedtime." "[CLOCK TICKING]" "[CRASHING]" "[GIRLS GIGGLING]" "[CLOCK TOLLING]" "[CLAPPING]" "Who is that?" "[WOOD SCRAPING]" "[PIANO PLAYS DISCORDANTLY]" "Who's ever down there, I'm gonna lock you in now!" "Aah!" "Unh." "[GRUNTING]" "Aah!" "Help!" "Andrea!" "Help!" "[GIRL GIGGLES]" "[MATCHES SHUFFLING]" "[WHIMPERING]" "GIRL:" "Hey, wanna play hide-and-clap?" "Aah!" "[BANGING ON DOOR]" "[THUDDING]" "Cindy?" "Okay, now..." "All right?" "All right, come on." "Come on." "There you go." "Okay, you can just sleep with me tonight, all right?" "There you go." "There." "[BANGING]" "[GASPS]" "[SCREAMING]" "ROGER:" "Andrea?" "CAROLYN:" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" " Who's in here?" " Andrea!" "Andrea?" "Andrea!" "In here!" "Help, Daddy!" "Help, it's Andrea!" "ROGER:" "Who's in here?" " Andrea!" "ROGER:" "What happened?" "[ALL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]" "Somebody, goddamn it, tell me what's going on here?" "ED:" "Fear is defined as a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger." "Whether it's a ghost, a spirit or an entity, they all feed on it." "Take Maurice here." "A French-Canadian farmer with no more than a third-grade education yet after he was possessed, spoke some of the best Latin I'd ever heard." "Sometimes backwards." "He'd been molested by his father, who had also tortured him repeatedly." "A dark spirit made its home in this man." "Now, if you look into his eyes, you can see him tearing blood." "[AUDIENCE MUTTERING]" "[MAURICE  PRIEST SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "And like that an upside-down cross started to appear from within his body." "ED:" "All right, Drew, you can hit the lights." "Oh." "WOMAN:" "Did you personally perform the exorcism?" "No, I'm not authorized." "But I've assisted on many." "See, an exorcism can be very dangerous not only for the victim, but for anyone in the room." " What happened to Maurice?" "ED:" "He tried to kill his wife but instead shot her in the arm and then turned the gun on himself." "Maurice had a very troubled life with little to live for and not even an exorcist could bring him back." "Which brings us to the three stages of demonic activity:" "Infestation, oppression and possession." "Now, infestation:" "That's the whispering, the footsteps, the feeling of another presence which ultimately grows into oppression, the second stage." "Now this is where the victim, and it's usually the one who's the most psychologically vulnerable is targeted specifically by an external force." "Breaks the victim down." "Crushes their will." "And, once in a weakened state, leads them to the third and final stage: possession." " Hey, Ed?" "Lorraine?" " Yeah." "There's someone here that would like to talk to you." " Hi." " Thanks, Drew." " Thank you." " I'll see you later." "How can we help you?" "There's something horrible happening in my house." "Could you come and take a look?" "You know, uh, it's getting kinda late." " We really need to head to our family." " You don't understand." "But we do." "There's usually some sort of rational explanation..." "I have five daughters who are scared to death." "I'm so afraid this thing wants to hurt us." "You have a daughter." "Wouldn't you do anything you could to protect her?" "Please." "Please can you come and take a look?" "Of course we will." "Of course we will." "GIRL [ON TV]:" "Come on, Jan!" "Open up!" "Jan, what happened?" "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "GIRL:" "The top of your head turned black." "CAROLYN:" "You guys straighten up?" "Thanks." "JAN [ON TV]:" "Don't be silly, it's a wig." "CAROLYN:" "Hello." "Hi." " Hi." "Hi." "Thanks for coming." " Hi, I'm Roger." " Lorraine." "Hey, nice to meet you, Roger." "Ed Warren." " Thanks for coming." " Please, come in." "Thank you." "So..." "Oh, my God." "Look at you all." "Who are these beautiful young women?" "This is Andrea, the oldest, Nancy, Cindy, Christine and April." "It's Mr. And Mrs. Warren." " We're all sleeping down here now." "LORRAINE:" "Mm." "The girls feel safer and it's warmer." "I'm constantly turning up the heat, but the house is always freezing." "ROGER:" "It's not a problem with the furnace." "I mean, not that I can find." "CAROLYN:" "It's gotten a lot worse the past few nights." "There's this awful smell, like rotting meat." "It moves around the house." "Uh..." "What?" "What is it?" "Well, rancid smells could indicate some type of demonic activity." "Oh, my God." "ROGER:" "That's to keep those doors from banging at night." "Otherwise, it's like:" "All night long, just like that." " Does it come in threes?" " Yeah." "It stops at dawn?" "Uh-huh." "Well, sometimes it's meant as an insult to the Trinity:" "The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." "ROGER:" "You know, it's the damndest thing, but we also get all kinds of birds that will just fly against the side of the house and break their necks." "Hm." "Really?" "And the clocks stop at 3:07 a.m." " All of them?" " Every one." "Oh, we were hanging those along the stairs." "Something just kept knocking them down, so we stopped hanging them up." "That's what I was talking about." "It was here when we moved in." "There's also a lot of stuff in the cellar." "Show me the cellar." "[DISTORTED SCREAMING]" "WOMAN:" "Look what she made me do." "You picking up anything in here, hon?" "Something awful happened here, Ed." "Those bruises, they from something that happened here?" "Oh, it's some iron deficiency thing I have." "You know, with all that's been going on, why haven't you just moved out?" "I don't know where we'd move to, you know?" "We got all our money tied up in this place and had a lot of repairs on top of that." "And I don't know anybody whose gonna take in a family of seven indefinitely." "That's why we tracked you down." "We're glad you found us." "All right, let's get started." "My name is Ed Warren." "It's November 1st, 1971." "I'm sitting here with Carolyn Perron who, with her family, has been experiencing supernatural occurrences." "Okay, go ahead." "CAROLYN:" "Where do I start?" "From the first occurrence." "I guess it was the clocks." "Mom and Dad tell me that you have a friend." "His name's Rory." "He lives here too." " Hmm." " But he's always sad." "Why is that?" "He won't tell me but I think something bad happened to him." "Do you mind if I try to see Rory?" "[MUSIC BOX PLAYING]" "[ED SIGHS]" "Hey." "[ROPE SQUEAKING]" "What is it?" "[ROPE SQUEAKING]" "We bought it at auction from the bank, so, you know, we never knew who lived here." "Well, Lorraine and I both feel that what your house needs is a cleansing." "An exorcism." "What, exorcism?" "I thought that was something that you do to people." "LORRAINE:" "No, not necessarily, no." "We have to get out of here." "I'm afraid that's not gonna help." "Lorraine saw something, which..." "Go ahead, hon." "I've been seeing the dark entity that haunts your house and your land." "I saw it first when I came through your door." "It was latched to your back." "And then I saw it again with the girls when we walked into the living room." "And it doesn't matter where you go this dark entity has latched itself to your family and it's feeding off you." "Even if we leave?" "Sometimes when you get haunted, it's like stepping on gum." "You take it with you." "LORRAINE:" "Look, I gotta tell you, you have a lot of spirits in here but this is the one that I'm most worried about, because it is so hateful." "Okay, so what do we do?" "Can we call a priest?" "ED:" "I wish it were that easy." "Performing an exorcism is an archaic procedure." "Requires years of training." "And even then, I have seen it go horribly wrong." "But before we even get that far, the church has to authorize it first." "It means we gotta investigate, gather evidence and provide proof and that's the hard part." "Have your children been baptized?" "Uh, no, we never got around to that." "We're not really a churchgoing family." "Well, you may want to rethink that." "Our presence here could make things worse." "Why?" "Because we're a threat." "And whatever you're dealing with here isn't gonna like us." "So far it hasn't done anything violent, and that's a good sign." "So we're gonna have our guy do some homework on the property to see what we're up against." "LORRAINE:" "Judy, what are you up to?" " I got you a present." " Aah." "Me and Nanna got these at the church's yard sale." " Honey." " One for you and one for me." "LORRAINE:" "Aw." "JUDY:" "She put a picture of you and Daddy in mine." "Nanna said this way we'll always be together." "You'll be with me and I'll be with you." "I miss you and Daddy." "Hey, hon." "Yup." "You're not gonna believe this." "Carolyn's voice didn't record." "What do you mean?" "Listen." "My name is Ed Warren." "It's November 1st, 1971." "I'm sitting here with Carolyn Perron who, with her family, has been experiencing supernatural occurrences." "Okay, go ahead." "From the first occurrence." "Nothing." "The whole time." " I don't know." "You find anything?" " Lots." "I mean, it's no wonder they're going through what they are." "That's the original farmhouse." "It was built in 1863 by a man named Jedson Sherman who was married to a woman named Bathsheba." "Ed, she's related to Mary Towne Estye." "She was one of the women accused of witchcraft in Salem." " She was hung during the trials." " Wow." "After Bathsheba married Jedson, they had a baby and when the baby was 7 days old Jedson caught her sacrificing it in front of the fireplace." "She ran out to that tree by the dock climbed up, proclaimed her love to Satan cursed anyone who tried to take her land, and hung herself." "Time of death was pronounced at 3:07 in the morning." "Well, that explains a few things." "Yeah, so does this." "Her last name's Walker." "She lived there in the '30s." "She had a boy named Rory who mysteriously disappeared in the woods." "Then she killed herself in the cellar." "And that's not all." "So, what was the original 200-acre farm has since been subdivided and sold off." "There was another boy who drowned in a pond here." "He lived in a house over here." "And a woman who worked as a maid in a neighboring home, she committed suicide too." "People who took her land." "ED [ON RECORDING]:" "I'm sitting here with Carolyn Perron who, with her family, has been experiencing supernatural occurrences." "Okay, go ahead." "[LOUD WHEEZING]" "ED:" "From the first occurrence." "[WHEEZING]" "[WOMAN WAILING AND GIRLS SCREAMING]" "LORRAINE:" "Here's Brad." " You find it okay?" "BRAD:" "Oh, yeah." "Drew, this is Officer Brad." "Officer Brad Hamilton, Harrisville, Rhode Island P.D." "Hm." "Nice to meet you, man." " So you're the lucky new cop, huh?" " Guess so." " You know you can't shoot ghosts, right?" " Take it easy on him, Drew." "All right, guys, help me get this stuff unloaded." "You take this." "LORRAINE:" "Hi, Roger." "All right." "When you're finished here, why don't you hit upstairs, all right, Drew?" "You got it." "ED:" "What's wrong with the Chevy?" "Ugh, what's not wrong with her?" " Needs a new carburetor to start." " Oh, yeah?" "Kind of put fixing her up on hold for a while." "Yeah." "Ahem." "Hey, Brad, hand me a thermostat, would you?" "What's this, uh, do?" "When there's an instant drop in temperature the thermostat triggers the camera to take a picture." "You've actually caught things on film?" "Well, yeah, that's, uh, the point." "Why, uh...?" "Why out here?" "Well, this is where the witch committed suicide." "She hung herself from that branch right above where you're standing." "CAROLYN:" "How could a mother kill her own child?" "It was never a child to her." "She just used her God-given gift as the ultimate offense against him." "Witches believe it elevates their status in the eyes of Satan." "[GIRLS GIGGLING]" "Mm." "Wow." "That's a nice day at the beach, huh?" "How did you know?" "It's an insight." "It's like a peek through the curtain into another person's life." "Mm." "That day meant so much to me." "We were driving along the coast." "Nancy pointed out how pretty the view was." "I thought this is a perfect opportunity for a photo." "We're gonna start fresh, you know?" "A new house, a new beginning." "You should have seen Roger and the girls." "I've never seen them so happy." "ALL:" "Cheese!" "They mean the world to me." "DREW:" "Put your hand flat on the desk." "Yeah, and take it off." "Here we go." "See?" "It just reveals to us what the naked eye can't see." "Pretty far out, isn't it?" "Yeah, it's groovy." "Drew, you got the Bolex ready for Brad?" "Yeah, already locked and loaded, sir." "[BELL TINKLING  DOOR CREAKING]" "[TOILET FLUSHES]" "What?" "I had to go." "DREW:" "All the rooms are coming in pretty good." "Good." "What's in the bottle?" "Holy water." "Presence of religious icons will get a reaction from anything unholy." "Sort of pisses them off." "So I set these throughout the house, see if I can stir things up a bit." "ROGER:" "Like holding a cross to a vampire?" "ED:" "Yeah." "Exactly." "Except I don't believe in vampires." "[BELL TINKLING]" "Wasn't me." "[TINKLING CONTINUES]" "[DOOR CREAKING]" "[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]" "Brad, get the camera." "Okay." "All right, it's 9:18, we're headed down into the cellar where the door's just opened on its own." "I have Lorraine and Officer Brad Hamilton with me." "Let's keep the cellar light off." "Give us a sign that you wanna communicate with us." "[LOW DRONING]" "Hon, you all right?" "There's definitely something here." " All right, close the door." "Move something." " My hands are so cold." "Come on." "LORRAINE:" "No." "It's gone." "It's gone." "ED:" "I got nothing." "Okay." "ED:" "Well, like I said, it doesn't always work when you want it to." "Yeah, maybe the camera picked something up." "BRAD:" "Watch out!" "DREW:" "For a guy who doesn't believe you looked a little freaked out when that door slammed shut." "It must have been a draft." "Oh, that's funny." "A draft never put that look on my face before." "I believe the clock." "It's 3:08." "[ALL SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "Let me see your glasses." "For you." "I think I might take some girls for ice cream later on." "What do you say about that?" "GIRLS:" "Yeah!" "ROGER:" "Honey, you wanna come?" "I'm exhausted." "I'm just gonna take a nap." "The late nights are getting to me." "That's probably a good idea." "Why don't you get some rest." " Lorraine and I'll watch over things for a bit." " Really?" "I'm gonna take off." "I have a shift starting in an hour." "The house hasn't felt like this in a long time." "I think the kids feel a lot safer with you around." "ED:" "I could get used to this." " What, me doing laundry?" " Ha-ha-ha." " You're funny." "No, this place." "Nice, fresh country air." "They have such a beautiful family, don't they?" "Yeah, that little one, April, did you see her bring me pancakes?" "[LORRAINE CHUCKLING]" "We've gotta help them." "I know." " I'll start with the Chevy." " Heh." "[ED CHUCKLING]" "[WIND WHISTLING]" "[SCREAMING]" "[GASPING]" "[GASPING]" "Carolyn!" "Are you okay?" "Carolyn, open the door." "Carolyn, open up!" "[CAROLYN COUGHING]" "Are you okay?" " Oh, I'm fine." " Are you sick?" " I woke up feeling nauseous, that's all." " I thought I saw..." "I hear Roger and the girls." "One minute." "[GIRLS CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]" "APRIL:" "Guys, do you wanna play a game?" "CINDY:" "Boring!" "APRIL:" "Thank you, Daddy." "NANCY:" "Let's go inside." "ROGER:" "I thought that was you." "Hey, I hope you don't mind." "I got a good deal on a rebuild at that wrecking yard in Smithfield." " No, you look like you know what you're doing." " Yeah, we'll see." "Got a nice place here, Roger." "Lorraine and I always wanted a spot in the country." "I'll sell you this one." "[LAUGHING]" "Hey, hand me a wrench, would you?" "Hey, uh, it really means a lot to us to have you here." "I gotta admit, I was a little bit skeptical going in." "Just wanna say thank you, though, for coming out when you did." "I can't take the credit." "That's, uh..." "That's all Lorraine." " I didn't want to." " Oh." "Why's that?" "Whatever Lorraine sees, feels, touches, it helps people." "But it also takes a toll on her." "Little piece each time." "Couple months ago we were working on a case." "She saw something." "[PRIEST PRAYING IN LATIN]" "[SCREAMING]" "It took a real big piece." "When we got home she went into our room, locked herself in didn't talk, didn't eat, didn't come out for eight days." "What'd she see?" "[LORRAINE SCREAMING]" "Get out of here!" "I don't know." "And I won't ask." "I need to reload." "You want some?" "I'm good, thanks." "All right." "[WIND CHIME TINKLING]" "WOMAN [WHISPERING]:" "Look what she made me do." "[GASPS]" "WOMAN [WHISPERING]:" "Look what she made me do." "Hey." "Ed?" "Look what she made me do!" "BRAD:" "Ed!" "Ed!" "Ed!" "DREW:" "Dude, you okay?" "ED:" "Hold up, Brad." "What's going on?" "I saw someone." "There was a woman dressed as a maid." "Ed?" "Ed, we're getting something." "ROGER:" "It's just Cindy." "She's sleepwalking." " No, wait." "We need this." "ROGER:" "Why do we need pictures of Cindy?" "She didn't trigger it." " What do you mean she didn't trigger it?" " Somebody's with her." "ROGER:" "Who?" "ROGER:" "Cindy!" "Cindy!" "Cindy!" "BOY:" "Hey, over here." "It's safe." "There's someone else in there with her." "I'm hearing another voice." "Here, listen." "BOY:" "Follow me." "This way." "This is where I hide." "Cindy?" "Cindy?" "Where'd she go, Ed?" "Windows are locked." "Ed, where'd she go?" "Brad, get the UV light." " The what?" " Just ask Drew." " Drew, I need a UV light." " Uh..." "Here, that's it." "Go, go, go, go!" "Turn off the light." "Get out of the way." "Okay." "Hit the lights!" "Found her." "Here we go." " All right." "You got her?" " Yeah." "That's where Rory hides when he's afraid." "Hon?" "Could I have April's music box, please?" "ED:" "How's Cindy?" " She doesn't remember a thing." "ED:" "Here you go." "Thank you." "[SCREAMING]" "Lorraine!" "No." "[GROANING]" "Lorraine!" "Lorraine!" "Lorraine!" "Lorraine!" "[WOMAN CRYING]" "[TINKLING FROM MUSIC BOX]" "[MUSIC BOX PLAYING]" "[WOMAN SOBBING]" "WOMAN:" "She made me do it." "She made me do it." "[GASPS]" "She made me do it." "[ROPE SQUEAKING]" "[GASPING]" "[ROPE SQUEAKING]" "[LORRAINE PANTING]" "[SCREAMING]" "Ed!" "Come on!" "Lorraine!" "[LORRAINE SCREAMS]" "Ed!" "Ed, I know what she did." "ED:" "I got you." "I know." "It's okay." "LORRAINE:" "I know what she did." "I know what she did." "She possessed the mother to kill the child." "She visits Carolyn every night." "That's what the bruise marks are!" "She's feeding off of her!" "[LOW RUMBLING]" "Uh..." "Nancy?" "[ALL SCREAMING]" "ROGER:" "Nancy!" "Are you okay?" "LORRAINE:" "Nancy!" "ROGER:" "Grab her!" "NANCY:" "Daddy!" "Help!" "CAROLYN:" "Nancy!" "[NANCY CONTINUES SCREAMING]" "CAROLYN:" "Is she okay?" "It's okay, I got you." "Did you get that?" "Yeah." "I'll have the footage developed and get it over to Father Gordon." "He's our liaison at the church." "I imagine we'll get a pretty fast response." " Listen, Roger?" " Yeah?" "Listen, when we get the exorcist, I'll be back." "But Lorraine..." " Yeah, I understand." " Until then Drew's gonna keep an eye on you." " Hey, Ed, thank you for everything." " Yeah." "GIRL:" "Mommy?" "ROGER:" "That's everything." "GIRL:" "Mommy?" "LORRAINE:" "Judy?" "Oh, God!" "Judy?" "ED:" "Lorraine!" "Wait!" "Lorraine." "What?" "Mom, it's me." "Is Judy okay?" " What?" " Can you go check, please?" "Damn it, Mom, just check, please!" " Are you gonna tell me what's going on?" " It's Judy." "What?" "What do you mean?" "What?" "Oh, thank God." "Mom, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." "I'll explain later, okay?" "What the hell happened?" "I had a vision of Judy in the water." "I know it was some kind of warning." "I know it." "Okay." "[LORRAINE SOBBING]" "Let's get out of here." " So?" " Yeah, well, you weren't kidding." "No." "Look, Ed, this is complicated because the kids aren't baptized." " No, I understand." " And the family are not members of the church." " Oh, come on." " And..." "The approval would have to come directly from the Vatican." "Father, we've never seen nothing like this." "Yeah, well, neither have I." "Father, they don't have a lot of time." "All right." "I'll push it through myself." " Thank you, Father." "Thank you." " Thank you." "ED:" "All right, we'll wait for your call." " Yeah." "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "[GASPS]" "JUDY:" "Mommy?" "Daddy?" "Mommy?" "Daddy?" "[THUNDER CRASHING]" "Dad?" "Nanna?" "Nanna?" "[ROPE SQUEAKING]" "[THUNDER CRASHING]" "[JUDY GRUNTS]" "Aah!" "[BANGING ON DOOR]" "[JUDY CRYING]" "[BANGING STOPS]" "[WHEEZING]" "Nanna!" "Nanna, help!" "Nanna, help!" "Judy?" "Nanna!" "Nanna!" "Nanna!" "Help!" " Judy!" " Nanna!" " Judy, open the door!" " Mom!" " Ed, there's something wrong." " What?" "JUDY:" "Nanna!" " Judy!" " Help!" " Judy!" "Judy, open this door!" "ED:" "What is it?" "LORRAINE:" "What's wrong with her?" "Judy!" "ED:" "Hey, move." "Move, move, move, move." "Judy, get back, honey." "Get back!" "ED:" "Come on!" "LORRAINE:" "Hurry." "Help!" "Help!" "ED:" "Get away from the door, Judy!" "Aah!" "Oh, God!" "Are you okay?" "There was someone rocking in the chair with Annabelle." "[JUDY SOBBING]" "LORRAINE:" "What?" "It's okay." "She's still in the case." "It's okay." "It's okay." "It's okay." " Dad!" "Dad!" " Daddy!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Mom just left with Christine and April." "She went in the car and drove away." "I don't know what happened." " She smells like rotting meat." " She didn't say what was going on." " What do you mean, she left?" "Left where?" " Gone!" "I don't know where she was going." "Where are we going, Mom?" "[PHONE RINGING]" " Hello?" "ROGER:" "It's Roger." "Something's going on with Carolyn." "Andrea was here, said Carolyn took off with Christine and April." " The girls said she smelled like rotten meat." " She possesses the mother to kill the child, that's what she does." "She's taking them to the house." "Roger, get back to the house now." "I'll meet you." "Lock the door, close the blinds." "Stay off the phone!" "Go." "LORRAINE:" "I'm coming." " No, you stay with Judy." "The only way to protect Judy is if we stop this where it started." " Otherwise, she'll latch onto us again." " That's exactly why I am going." "You think I'm gonna let you walk into this alone?" "I can't lose you." "You won't." "Let's finish this together." "[SIREN WAILING]" "ED:" "Agh!" "It's locked." "LORRAINE:" "Carolyn!" "ED:" "Roger!" "BRAD:" "Get out of the way!" "[CAROLYN SCREAMING]" "ED:" "Roger!" "ROGER:" "Ed!" "ED:" "Carolyn!" "ROGER:" "Ed!" " Carolyn!" "ROGER:" "We're down here!" "Carolyn, don't!" "No, no!" "She's got...!" "Get her hand!" "Get the scissors!" "[CAROLYN CONTINUES SCREAMING]" "[CAROLYN CONTINUES SCREAMING]" "ED:" "We gotta get her to the car!" "BRAD:" "And bring her where?" "To take her to the priest for the exorcism." "ROGER:" "Where's April?" "DREW:" "April?" "April!" "Take Christine to the car and find April!" "DREW:" "April!" "Come on!" "[CAROLYN SCREAMING]" "[CONTINUES SCREAMING]" " She won't let her leave the house." " What do you mean?" " If we take her out, the witch will kill her." " Agh!" "[CAROLYN SCREAMING]" "Roger!" "Carolyn!" "ED:" "Go!" "Carolyn?" "[CAROLYN SCREAMING]" "Okay, I'm gonna put you in here." "Come on." " Get in." "Stay in here." " I don't wanna stay here by myself." "Stay in here no matter what." "I'll be back." "I have to find April, okay?" "I'll be back, I promise." "April?" "You okay?" "[ALL GRUNTING]" "Stop!" "Brad!" "Brad!" "Aah!" "Let's get something to tie her up!" "LORRAINE:" "Hold it." "[CAROLYN SCREAMING]" "I gotta call Father Gordon." "We gotta get him out here." "He's too far away." "She won't make it." "Look at her." " Then you need to leave." " What are you talking about?" "I have to do it." "The exorcism." "What?" "I thought you said we need a priest." "You're not a priest." " Well, you got a better idea?" " He can do it." " You can do it." " But you gotta get out of here." " I'm not leaving you!" " Damn it, I'm not doing this with you in here!" "God brought us together for a reason." "This is it." "I'm gonna get the book." "[CAROLYN SCREAMING]" "DREW:" "April!" "April!" "[CAROLYN GROANING]" ""In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit."" "[SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "[SCREAMING]" "[RUMBLING]" "[CHRISTINE GASPS]" "[SCREAMS]" "April!" "[THUDDING]" "[CROW SQUAWKS]" "[BANGING THEN DREW GASPS]" "[CROWS SQUAWKING]" "[RUMBLING]" "[SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "[IN ENGLISH] Hold her still!" "Hold her still!" "Come here!" "Hold her still!" "[SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "April?" "[APRIL WHIMPERING]" "April!" "April, you under there?" "April!" "[ED SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "Carolyn." "Carolyn." "Don't give in!" "Don't let her take you!" "Ed!" "You gotta stop, you're killing her." "Stop!" "No, he can't!" "CAROLYN:" "Roger, help me!" "[ED CONTINUES SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "Ed!" "Goddamn it, stop it!" "Understand this!" "We are now fighting for her soul!" ""In the name of Jesus Christ, the saints and all the angels I command you to reveal yourself!"" "[SCREAMING]" "[CLANGING]" "CAROLYN:" "Roger, help me!" "[ED SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "[ED CONTINUES SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "[SCREAMING]" "ED [IN ENGLISH]:" "Put her down!" "Put her down!" "Put her down!" "ROGER:" "Carolyn!" "Carolyn!" "LORRAINE:" "Ed, look out!" " Unh!" "LORRAINE:" "Are you okay?" "[CAROLYN LAUGHING]" "ED:" "Hold her still!" "Don't let her up!" "We're losing her, Roger!" "Damn you!" "You leave my family alone, you hear me?" "I don't know what you are, but you leave my wife alone, goddamn it!" "Let her go!" "Do you hear me?" "Let her go!" "[SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "Let her go, goddamn it!" "Let her go!" "[ED CONTINUES SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "She's already gone." "And now you're all gonna die." "[GUN COCKS]" "April!" "I found her!" "She's under the house!" "Under the kitchen!" "Don't!" "No!" "Get her!" "[ALL GRUNTING]" "ED:" "Here." "ROGER:" "Carolyn!" "[APRIL SCREAMING]" "ROGER:" "Carolyn!" "DREW:" "She's in that hole." "Right there." "[APRIL SCREAMING]" "Carolyn?" "Oh, my God." "No!" "Can't go in." "Can't reach." "ROGER:" "No!" "Carolyn, don't!" "[APRIL SCREAMING]" "Carolyn, no!" "Bathsheba!" "By the power of God, I condemn you back to hell!" "[SCREAMING]" "This is your daughter!" "[WAILING]" " You can't give in!" " Agh!" "Roger." "We need to get her to fight from the inside." "Don't let her do this." "Don't let this thing do this." "You gotta fight it." "You're stronger than she is." " You gotta fight!" " Keep it going, Roger!" "You gotta stay with us, all right?" "Come on back, Carolyn." "You're in, that's it!" "Get her back!" " Remember what you showed me." " No!" "Remember that day that you said you would never forget." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "[SOBBING]" "LORRAINE:" "You said they meant the world to you." "This is what you'll be leaving behind." "[SOBBING]" "[GASPS]" "[COUGHING]" "[RETCHING]" "APRIL:" "Mommy?" "[WHIMPERING]" "Oh." "ROGER:" "It's over." "I am so sorry." "I love you so much." "I love you so much." "I love you so much." "I'm so happy." "A draft do that to your face?" "I'd take a guy with a gun any day." "You did good." "No, you did." "I'll call Father Gordon and let him know what happened." "Sounds good." "The Vatican approved the exorcism." "Heh." "Nice timing." "And if we can, then he'd like to meet with us tomorrow." "There's a case in Long Island he'd like to discuss." "Really?" "[MUSIC BOX PLAYING]" "[English" " US" " SDH]" "[THUNDER CRASHING]" "[BANGING ON DOOR]" "[JUDY CRYING]" "[BANGING STOPS]" "[CHAIR SQUEAKING]" "Nanna!" "SAFRAN:" "You know, being scared is like being made to laugh." "It's an instinctive reaction." "When something scary is happening, you just feel it automatically." "MAN:" "A mark." "SAFRAN:" "Getting James on board this project was a home run for us." "When the screenplay was ready to go out to directors and we were putting together our list there was one name that was the top of everybody's list." "New Line's, Warner Bros., mine." "And that was James'." "He was the only director that we ever went to on this movie." "I wanted to do something I haven't done before and that is basically deal into the world of, you know telling a biographic story." "So, what are you guys?" "Ghost hunters, paranormal researchers." " Kooks." "ALL:" "Ha-ha-ha." "But we prefer to be known simply as Ed and Lorraine Warren." "The crucial aspect for me was the real-life inspiration of Ed and Lorraine Warren." "WAN:" "I could pull from a lot of the stories they've had in the past I think they investigated over 10,000 cases in their lifetime." "And so that means, you know, a lot of great materials to pull from." "James is able to elevate the level of the genre to a point where you don't necessarily need the blood you don't need the guts to scare people." "[CRASHING]" "[GIRLS GIGGLING]" "That's actually drawing him to the room and talking to her." "His artistry is off the charts." "You know, his visual sense, his production design sense his eye for the camera, he gets the rhythm." "It's less about cheap scares, it's about where do you put the camera how do you frame it, how do you use empty spaces to build suspense with?" "I want it to feel very real." "I always, when I create these scenes I want to put you, the audience, in there with the family so one of the tricks I do a lot of is if a character's walking down a hallway I would always have the camera be behind the character following down the hallway." "So you're there with them." "You're walking with them." "And so you don't know what's in front of them." "Yeah, maybe the camera picked something up." "Watch out!" "WAN:" "Cool." "And you can see it in the actors that they respond to that." "That they understand what he's trying to get." "Not only just performance-wise, but also by moving the camera in certain ways to build up the suspense and build up the scares." "Sometimes in these kind of movies you write too many scares." "Because you think it's gotta be scare after scare." "You can't do that, you gottajust build, slow it down." "Actually, that's one thing that James said, his first read, he goes:" " "I love all these scares, there's too many." - "We gotta pull some of these out."" "We're like, "This is a horror movie, James." And he goes:" ""We have to build the tension." "We're gonna build more tension between the scares." He goes, "Trust me."" "Yeah, he was spot-on." "My approach for the scares and the suspense sequences in this film are definitely much..." "Are based much..." "Are much more grounded." "I tried to put into the film, you know, things that happened to the family." "You know, things that they would see, that they would experience in this house." "You know, a rocking chair on its own." "Like a creaking door." "[DOOR CREAKING]" "Those are classic haunted house horror movie tropes." "But there's a reason why they're there because when they work, they're so effective." "Nanna?" "[WHEEZING]" "I've always said what makes scary movies work is not so much the visual it's the sound, it's what you think you see through the sound design that is the most important thing." "Keep coming around, come around, and then he starts to back away here, and the thud as we go along." "[THUD]" "[THUD]" "[GASPS]" "[PIGEON COOING]" "There's a difference in wanting to scare an audience and wanting to trick an audience." "James is one of those people that would never want to trick an audience." "It's not about fooling them into thinking this is something different." "He loves to scare you, but he's just not gonna trick you." "[SNARLS]" "[WOMAN SCREAMING]" "And to me, why I think the haunted house subgenre or the haunting genre is so enduring is it takes place in a world that we all understand which is it takes place in the home." "What has been fantastic for me on this film for me to realize my vision, we literally built this two-story house inside a stage." "And that was amazing, you know, just, like, seeing how quickly it came together." "And how, you know, we would talk about..." "And how Julie would find ways to accommodate what I..." "How I wanna shoot my sequences." "The driving force is I need to achieve what the script had." "And what James wants, his vision." "COWAN:" "We realized very much what we've been saying about how James frames a shot and what he needs out of each scene is that doorways had to be in an exact spot to make the scare work." "And hallways needed to be a certain length and a certain darkness to be able to kind of have things come out of them and make them scary." "TAYLOR:" "The details were so fantastic, you know?" "Um, so I just love when a production designer is on that level, I just..." "I just love when they've just filled in every little..." "They filled the canvas in." "For me, I take all these stories and I try to filter it through myself." "I try to think of it through my own head, going, "Okay, what scares me?"" "Roger!" "When I first read the script, the more I started designing that end sequence, I realized:" ""Wow, that could be a really cool, iconic moment for the film."" "I kind of didn't wanna show her face when she was transforming into, like, this scary person." "And so the way to do that was we had Lily's character attacking someone, attacking Brad, the cop character and biting him in the face." "[SCREAMS]" "And in doing so, that allowed me to muzzle her with a sheet across her and basically spent the rest of the exorcism with her underneath this white sheet you know, wrapped around this white sheet tied to a chair." "[GRUNTING]" "And then, you know, for that moment where she starts coughing and hacking up blood." "[COUGHING]" "You know, she coughs up the blood, but because the sheets are in her face the blood sprays onto the inside of the sheet and so it adds this extra really sort of gritty layer to it, to what's going on." "And I think it just makes it really creepy." "[ED SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "The key is to, you know, make a scary film that has a lasting impact and that affects people way after the film is over."