The demons in ‘The Conjuring’ movies may not be real — but the family tragedies are

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Chaves directed three of the nine films in the Conjuring series, including the latest, The Conjuring: Last Rites, out Sept. 5. The heroes of The Conjuring movies are based on a real-life couple: Ed and Lorraine Warren. (Ed Warren died in 2006, Lorraine Warren died in 2019.) When so many people were very skeptical about them, the Warrens came in and the Warrens believed.”In The Conjuring movies, the Warrens are heroes. “But he just wouldn’t listen.” “It’s just one of those things you never do,” says Ed Warren, demonologist.