The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025): Cast, Plot, Ending and Streaming

The Conjuring: Last Rites opens in 1964, when Ed and Lorraine Warren take a haunted antique mirror into their care while Lorraine's baby is born in grave danger. The child survives, and the couple name her Judy. The story then jumps to 1986, when the Smurl family moves into a house in West Pittston, Pennsylvania. The family receives the mirror as a gift, and unexplained and violent disturbances begin to torment the household.

By then Judy is an adult and in a relationship with Tony Spera, while the aging Warrens are pulled toward one more case. The film keeps the shape of the earlier entries, a family under pressure and a pair of investigators asked to judge what is happening, but it puts the Warrens' own daughter close to the center of the danger. That choice is what separates it from a routine case of the week, and it explains why the 1964 prologue matters so much to everything that follows.

The full plot of The Conjuring: Last Rites runs from the 1964 mirror case to Judy's wedding. In 1964 the Warrens take a haunted mirror into their care, and a difficult birth leaves Lorraine's newborn daughter Judy at risk before she survives. By 1986 the Smurl family has settled in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, and a gift of an antique mirror brings a dark presence into their home. The spirits grow more violent and frighten every member of the household. Father Gordon, a priest who tries to help the family, is driven to his death by the demon.

Judy, now grown, goes looking into the case on her own. The Warrens learn that the demon commands three other spirits and is hunting Judy in particular. The demon takes hold of Judy and turns on the family, and Lorraine saves Judy once more, as she did when Judy was a baby. Together the Warrens recite a prayer that destroys the mirror's hold, and the haunting ends.

The Smurls then live in the house for years without further trouble, and the mirror itself stays in the Warrens' occult museum. The film closes on Judy's wedding to Tony, with Ed walking her down the aisle. At the reception Lorraine has a vision of a happy future full of family.

The Conjuring: Last Rites came out in US theaters on September 5, 2025, with the UK following the same day and Australia a day earlier on September 4, 2025. TheWrap confirmed the US date when the trailer arrived. The film opened in 3,802 US theaters, according to The Numbers, and took $84 million in its domestic opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo.

Is it a hit or a flop? Measured against its budget, it is a hit. It earned about $499 million worldwide on a $55 million budget, which is more than nine times what it cost, with $177.8 million of that from the domestic market and $321.5 million from international. That is the highest worldwide total of any film in the series. The Conjuring 2 reached about $323 million and The Conjuring (2013) about $321 million, while the best of the spinoffs, The Nun (2018), reached about $366 million. The full table is on the conjuring box office guide.

The title also explains why people search for The Conjuring 4. It is the fourth main film, after The Conjuring (2013), The Conjuring 2 (2016) and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021). No launch event date, city or venue has been reported for the film.

The ending of The Conjuring: Last Rites has the Warrens defeat the demon by praying together, which breaks the mirror's power and frees both Judy and the Smurl family. The Smurls get years of peace in their home, the mirror goes back to the Warrens' museum, and the final scene is Judy's wedding, where Ed gives her away and Lorraine sees a warm vision of the family's future.

What does that mean? In my opinion, the film is built as a farewell to Ed and Lorraine rather than a setup for a direct follow up. Lorraine saving Judy a second time, after the 1964 birth, closes the circle the prologue opened, and the wedding gives the couple a quiet exit that the earlier films never offered them. It could be argued that this is the safest ending a long running saga could choose, since it trades a final twist for emotional payoff, but it suits characters who have spent four main films defending other people's homes.

Is Last Rites the end of the saga? Not entirely. Warner Bros. has dated conjuring first communion for September 10, 2027, according to TheWrap, so the series carries on past this film.

Is it worth watching, and is it the scariest? As a fan of the monster side of this series, I would say it is worth watching if you have followed the Warrens, because the ending depends on their history with Judy. Whether it is the scariest is a matter of taste, and in my opinion the first film still has the tighter scares, while Last Rites is the more emotional one.

The Conjuring: Last Rites was filmed in the UK, with London named as a filming location, even though the story is set in West Pittston, Pennsylvania. Principal photography began in the UK in September 2024, and Screen Daily reported the production under way on September 17, 2024.

That makes for an interesting contrast with earlier entries. The Conjuring 2 was set in Enfield, north London, in 1977, while Last Rites uses London for a Pennsylvania story. For more on how the films connect to the Warrens' claimed cases, see the conjuring true story guide.

The Conjuring: Last Rites has several details that set it apart from the rest of the saga, from its runtime to its casting history.

• At 136 minutes, The Conjuring: Last Rites is the longest main Conjuring film, ahead of The Conjuring 2 at 134 minutes, The Conjuring (2013) at 112 minutes and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It at 111 minutes.
• Director Michael Chaves also directed The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It and The Nun II before this film.
• James Wan produced through Atomic Monster and Peter Safran through The Safran Company, with New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. also on the film.
• The production budget was $55 million, and the film opened in 3,802 US theaters.
• The trailer shows the film set in 1986, with the Warrens facing an evil tied to an early case of their career.
• Judy Warren has been played by Sterling Jerins, Mckenna Grace and now Mia Tomlinson across the saga.
• The film is rated R in the US, 15 in the UK and MA 15+ in Australia.