Where The Conjuring 3 Comes In The Franchise Timeline

The Conjuring 3 Updates: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It takes the franchise back to the 1980s for experiencing another paranormal activity concentrated around Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga). Similar to its predecessors, the Conjuring 3 is centered around the cases investigated by the Warrens in real life.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made me do it, that was initially set for a September 2020 release prior to the covid-19 pandemic happened, will now hit the theaters and HBO Max on June 4, 2021.

The Warrens who were last featured as side characters in 2019’s Annabelle Comes Homes, have not been the center of attraction since the release of 2016’s The Conjuring 2.

But this time, they will be investigating such a case, that they had never seen or ever heard of before, i.e,  they will be solving the case that connects the demonic possession to the murder trail in Connecticut.

Trailers for the movie revealed them getting to the bottom of a homicide supposedly committed by Arne Cheyenne Johnson (Ruairi O’Connor), in the mean time, the couple will encounter a powerful paranormal threat.

The Conjuring 3: Timeline

The Conjuring 3
The Conjuring 3

It is confirmed from the trailer of The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do it that the event will take place in the year 1981. From this piece of information, it can be made out that the current installment is closest amongst the other films of the franchise to the present.

Furthermore, it can be noted that there are currently seven installments in The Conjuring franchise (including The Curse of La Llorona) and none amongst them were set anywhere later than 1970s.

The Nun being the first in the timeline, i.e, 1952 and The Conjuring 2 being the last ,i.e, 1977, but The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It will set the franchise four years ahead of that of The Conjuring 2.

The two demonologists had investigated several paranormal cases over the decades giving the filmmakers plenty of ideas to set the time periods of each movie in the franchise.

One of the best feature of the movies in the Conjuring Franchise is how amazingly the directors had perfectly captured the music, clothing, dialogue, pop culture reference and many more elements in accordance with to the time period they are set in.

keeping in mind how the other movies had functioned in the box office, it is sure that The Conjuring 3 will definitely raise the standards of the entire franchise.

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