{"slug":"the-conjuring-last-rites","type":"movie","title":"The Conjuring: Last Rites","year":2025,"releaseDate":null,"franchise":null,"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"creators":["Michael Chaves"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites","hook":"Survivors from every Warren case crash Judy's wedding — and the credits end on a photo of the real 'Conjuring Mirror.'","intro":"Director Michael Chaves built the Warrens' farewell around restraint, not a villain parade. He told The Hollywood Reporter he modeled the film on *Logan* — \"I've always loved how Logan wasn't this big, sprawling movie where every villain is unleashed on Wolverine\" — and dismissed the fan-trailer fantasy of Valak, Annabelle, and the Crooked Man all storming the Smurl house as \"a very hollow experience.\" That choice shapes the easter eggs in **The Conjuring: Last Rites**: instead of monster cameos, the callbacks are personal. A locket from 2013 gets an origin story. A Rhode Island cop shows up at a barbecue. The real Judy Warren stands in a crowd scene watching an actress play her.\n\nThe film adapts the 1986 Smurl haunting of West Pittston, Pennsylvania, and Chaves stuffs its margins with both franchise history and classic-horror homage — a *Ghostbusters* heckler who asks Ed if he's ever been slimed, an *Exorcist*-style levitation, a sink that floods the kitchen with blood like the Overlook's elevator. Then the wedding finale reunites the Perrons, the Hodgsons, David Glatzel, and even James Wan himself in a single room.\n\nBelow are 18 documented easter eggs, callbacks, and hidden details, roughly in story order — from the 1964 curio-shop prologue to the post-credits photo that reveals the film's haunted mirror sits, labeled \"the conjuring mirror,\" in the Warrens' real Occult Museum.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":1038392,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1038392","imdbId":"tt22898462","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22898462/"},"counts":{"eggs":18,"confirmed":3,"community":15,"theory":0,"sources":17},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — The Conjuring: Last Rites has 1 post-credit scene.","scenes":1,"description":"No filmed sequel tease — instead, the credits roll over archival photos and footage of the real Ed and Lorraine Warren spanning the whole franchise's cases, with an epilogue on the Warrens and the Smurls. The final image is a photo of the real Ed Warren beside the actual 'Conjuring Mirror' from the Occult Museum, scored to the Annabelle theme. Worth staying for.","detail":"One, though it is a photograph and a title card rather than a filmed scene — and it recontextualises a decade of this franchise in about fifteen seconds.\n\nThe credits themselves are the first half of it, and they start immediately. Rather than a black crawl, Michael Chaves runs the names over real material: home video and photographs of Ed and Lorraine Warren across four decades, talk-show appearances, family footage, and stills from the actual investigations the series has dramatised since 2013, with a few demonic frames cut in to stop the audience relaxing. Text alongside gives the epilogue on what became of the couple after West Pittston. The *Annabelle* theme scores it.\n\nAfter the final card comes the last image: a still of the real Ed Warren standing beside the mirror the film has spent two hours on, with text explaining that the object had been used in a ritual to call up a spirit, that it entered the Warrens' files as a *conjuring mirror*, and that it still sits in the Occult Museum room of their house in Monroe, Connecticut.\n\nThe setup is backwards-facing, and Chaves has been candid that it was not planned. Screenwriters Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing brought him the coincidence — the artefact at the centre of the finale happened to share the franchise's name — and he built the ending toward it. \"It was really just luck,\" he told ScreenRant. \"I loved ending on it, and I love that photo.\" He called it kismet rather than a twelve-year plan laid down by James Wan. As retcons go it is a graceful one, because it lets a farewell film close on a fact instead of a tease.\n\nThere is no sequel hook. Other Conjuring-universe projects exist, but the Warrens' story ends here and nothing after the credits argues otherwise. Worth staying for.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"1964-mirror-prologue","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-1964-mirror-prologue","title":"The 1964 Prologue Rewrites the Franchise's Origin Point","description":"The film opens in 1964, with a pregnant Lorraine touching an antique mirror in a curio shop and seeing a vision of an entity holding her unborn child — a shock that sends her into labor with Judy, who is briefly stillborn before Lorraine's prayers revive her. It plays like a standalone cold open, but it quietly plants the film's entire endgame: the same mirror resurfaces 22 years later as the Smurl family's confirmation gift, and the demon inside it has been waiting for the soul it was denied — Judy Warren. ScreenRant's breakdown notes the demon 'first infected Lorraine when she touched a massive upright mirror while investigating a haunting in an antique shop,' making the prologue the franchise's earliest-set Warren scene.","scene":"Cold open, 1964 — Ed and Lorraine investigate the curio shop; Lorraine touches the upright mirror","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["foreshadowing"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — The Conjuring: Last Rites' Mirror Demon and Haunting Explained","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-demon-mirror-explained/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"annabelle-rocking-chair","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-annabelle-rocking-chair","title":"Annabelle Waits in Judy's Childhood Bedroom","description":"Early in the film, Judy glimpses the Annabelle doll sitting on a rocking chair in the corner of her childhood bedroom — a vision she dismisses as unreal. It is a direct callback to the doll's long history of tormenting Judy specifically: Bathsheba used Annabelle to attack young Judy in the first Conjuring, and the doll nearly killed her in Annabelle Comes Home. The rocking-chair staging also echoes how the doll was repeatedly found posed around the Warren house in that film. It's the first of two Annabelle appearances here, re-establishing that the doll and Judy have been connected since the franchise began.","scene":"Early in the film — Judy's childhood bedroom at the Warren house, doll on the rocking chair","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 13 Easter Eggs & References In The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-easter-eggs-horror-references/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Annabelle's Surprising Return In The Conjuring: Last Rites Explained","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-annabelle-return-future-setup/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-conjuring","referencesWork":null},{"id":"empty-lecture-hall","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-empty-lecture-hall","title":"The Half-Empty Lecture Hall Mirrors The Conjuring's Opening","description":"Ed and Lorraine's university lecture about Annabelle is a deliberate bookend to the packed lecture scene that introduced them in the 2013 original. Twelve years later, the auditorium is nearly deserted — a visual gag about the Warrens' fading celebrity by 1986, when pop culture had turned ghost-hunting into a punchline. The lecture even covers the Annabelle case again, triggering Judy's psychic flashes to her own near-fatal encounter with the doll in Annabelle Comes Home. It's the film telling you upfront that the Warrens' era is ending — the same idea the whole 'last rites' framing is built on.","scene":"Ed and Lorraine's college lecture on the Annabelle case, near the start of the film","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","visual"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 13 Easter Eggs & References In The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-easter-eggs-horror-references/"},{"label":"1428 Elm — Easter eggs in The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://1428elm.com/haunts-hints-and-hidden-treats-easter-eggs-in-the-conjuring-last-rites-01k4zkdk0wt2"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-conjuring","referencesWork":null},{"id":"ghostbusters-heckler","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-ghostbusters-heckler","title":"\"Anything Like Ghostbusters?\" — Ed Gets Heckled","description":"During the lecture, a student asks the Warrens if their work is 'anything like Ghostbusters,' another quotes Ray Parker Jr.'s 'Who ya gonna call?', and one even asks if Ed has ever been slimed. Ed bristles, but Lorraine defuses it by admitting they genuinely loved the movie. It's a period-perfect joke — the film is set in 1986, two years after Ivan Reitman's comedy made paranormal investigators a national punchline, which really did change how the public treated the Warrens. SlashFilm flagged it as the franchise's most unexpected comedy nod, and Ghostbusters News covered it as a loving tip of the hat rather than a jab.","scene":"The lecture scene — students heckling from the sparse audience","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","meta"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — The Conjuring: Last Rites Features An Unexpected Nod To A Comedy Classic","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1959383/the-conjuring-last-rites-comedy-nod-ghostbusters/"},{"label":"Ghostbusters News — The Conjuring: Last Rites Includes Fun Ghostbusters Reference","url":"https://ghostbustersnews.com/2025/09/06/the-conjuring-last-rites-features-fun-ghostbusters-reference/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"lucy-locket-origin","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-lucy-locket-origin","title":"Lorraine's Locket Finally Gets Its Origin Story","description":"The locket Lorraine has worn since James Wan's 2013 original — the one holding Judy's photo, which has repeatedly surfaced during supernatural events — becomes a load-bearing object here. Last Rites reveals its significance through the 'Lucy Locket' nursery rhyme Lorraine teaches young Judy as a charm to ward off evil, tying the object directly to Lorraine's maternal fears. It also delivers one of the film's nastiest scares: Lorraine finds the locket in the kitchen sink moments before the blood-flood sequence. A 12-year-old costume piece retroactively becomes franchise mythology.","scene":"Flashbacks with young Judy, and the kitchen sink scene where the locket reappears","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — The Conjuring: Last Rites' Mirror Demon and Haunting Explained","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-demon-mirror-explained/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — 13 Easter Eggs & References In The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-easter-eggs-horror-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-conjuring","referencesWork":null},{"id":"brad-hamilton-grill-cameo","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-brad-hamilton-grill-cameo","title":"Officer Brad Hamilton Mans the Grill at Ed's Birthday","description":"The Rhode Island police officer who helped the Warrens during the Perron farmhouse case in the first Conjuring — the fan-favorite sidekick who shotgunned a door during the exorcism — resurfaces at Ed's 60th birthday party, cooking at the barbecue. The film doesn't just cameo him; Brad explicitly mentions the Rhode Island investigation and points out a scar on his cheek from the original film's events, confirming the Perron case left literal marks. It's a small-scale, human callback that fits Chaves' stated 'Logan' approach: the people who lived through the cases are the connective tissue, not the demons.","scene":"Ed's 60th birthday party — Brad is at the barbecue grill","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","callback"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 13 Easter Eggs & References In The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-easter-eggs-horror-references/"},{"label":"1428 Elm — Easter eggs in The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://1428elm.com/haunts-hints-and-hidden-treats-easter-eggs-in-the-conjuring-last-rites-01k4zkdk0wt2"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-conjuring","referencesWork":null},{"id":"real-judy-and-tony-spera-cameo","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-real-judy-and-tony-spera-cameo","title":"The Real Judy Warren and Tony Spera Are at the Party","description":"Among the guests at Ed's birthday party are the actual Judy (Warren) Spera and her husband Tony Spera — the real-life daughter and son-in-law of Ed and Lorraine Warren, whose on-screen versions are played by Mia Tomlinson and Ben Hardy. The real Ed died in 2006 and Lorraine in 2019, so Judy and Tony are the last living links to the family the entire franchise dramatizes; Tony still runs the Warrens' Occult Museum collection. Having them watch their own younger selves fall in love on screen is the film's most poignant meta touch, and you will only catch it if you know their faces.","scene":"Ed's 60th birthday party crowd","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","meta","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 13 Easter Eggs & References In The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-easter-eggs-horror-references/"},{"label":"1428 Elm — Easter eggs in The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://1428elm.com/haunts-hints-and-hidden-treats-easter-eggs-in-the-conjuring-last-rites-01k4zkdk0wt2"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"john-wayne-poster-fakeout","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-john-wayne-poster-fakeout","title":"A John Wayne Poster Doubles as a Jump-Scare Fake-Out","description":"While Janet Smurl does laundry in the basement, a figure looms in the frame — which turns out to be a poster of John Wayne in full cowboy attire. It's a classic Conjuring-style misdirect (the franchise loves letting your eyes find the 'ghost' before revealing something mundane), and an era-appropriate set dressing choice for a blue-collar 1980s Pennsylvania household. ScreenRant singled it out as one of the film's oddest genre collisions: a Western icon deployed as horror-movie sleight of hand.","scene":"The Smurl basement — Janet doing laundry","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 13 Easter Eggs & References In The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-easter-eggs-horror-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"exorcist-levitation","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-exorcist-levitation","title":"Jack Smurl's Levitation Channels The Exorcist","description":"When Jack Smurl is attacked in his bed at night, he floats above the mattress in a composition that deliberately evokes Regan MacNeil's iconic levitation in The Exorcist (1973). It's not a one-off: Michael Chaves has referenced William Friedkin's film before in his Conjuring-universe work, and the elder statesman of possession cinema is the natural touchstone for a franchise about demonologists. The staging — flat on his back, rising parallel to the bed as the room watches helplessly — is close enough that multiple outlets flagged it as intentional homage rather than coincidence.","scene":"The Smurl master bedroom, nighttime attack on Jack","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 13 Easter Eggs & References In The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-easter-eggs-horror-references/"},{"label":"1428 Elm — Easter eggs in The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://1428elm.com/haunts-hints-and-hidden-treats-easter-eggs-in-the-conjuring-last-rites-01k4zkdk0wt2"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"poltergeist-tv-homage","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-poltergeist-tv-homage","title":"Heather and the Television: A Poltergeist Homage","description":"Heather Smurl watching a videotape of the family birthday party alone in the dark — while something in the recording blows out the candles that stayed lit in reality — is staged as a direct nod to Poltergeist (1982), with the lighting and her positioning in front of the glowing screen mirroring Carol Anne's famous TV communion. It's a smart period fit too: home video and haunted broadcast imagery were peak 1980s horror grammar, and Last Rites is set in 1986, right in Poltergeist's cultural shadow.","scene":"Heather alone in the living room, rewatching the birthday party VHS in the dark","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 13 Easter Eggs & References In The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-easter-eggs-horror-references/"},{"label":"1428 Elm — Easter eggs in The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://1428elm.com/haunts-hints-and-hidden-treats-easter-eggs-in-the-conjuring-last-rites-01k4zkdk0wt2"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"shining-blood-flood","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-shining-blood-flood","title":"The Kitchen Sink Floods with Blood, Overlook-Style","description":"After Lorraine finds her locket in the sink while washing dishes, blood begins pouring out and floods across the kitchen floor, forcing her to back away as the wave rushes toward her — an unmistakable riff on the elevator blood-flood from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Scaling the image down from a hotel corridor to a family kitchen is very on-brand for this franchise, which has always domesticated its horror. ScreenRant notes it as one of two Shining references in the film, and the second one is walking around with an axe.","scene":"Lorraine washing dishes in the kitchen; the locket appears in the sink first","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 13 Easter Eggs & References In The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-easter-eggs-horror-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-shining","referencesWork":null},{"id":"axe-man-torrance-parallel","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-axe-man-torrance-parallel","title":"The Axe-Wielding Ghost Is a Jack Torrance Echo","description":"One of the spirits haunting the Smurl property is a man who murdered his wife and her mother with an axe on the farmland where the house now stands — and his weapon-first pursuit scenes visually parallel Jack Torrance's rampage in The Shining. There's a franchise layer too: Michael Chaves previously armed Ed Warren himself with an axe during the finale of The Devil Made Me Do It, so Last Rites completes a pattern of Shining nods running through Chaves' Conjuring films. The axe-man also serves the film's Conjuring 2 trick — a lesser spirit masking the true demonic culprit.","scene":"The Smurl property hauntings — the axe-wielding male spirit's attacks","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 13 Easter Eggs & References In The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-easter-eggs-horror-references/"},{"label":"FandomWire — The Conjuring: Last Rites Connections to Past Warren Cases, Explained","url":"https://fandomwire.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-connections-to-past-warren-cases-explained/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-shining","referencesWork":null},{"id":"ed-heart-pills-callback","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-ed-heart-pills-callback","title":"Ed's Heart Pills Spill Again — a Devil Made Me Do It Callback","description":"Ed's heart condition, established when he suffered a heart attack in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, comes due here. Mid-confrontation at the Smurl house, chest pains drop him and he spills his heart pills — echoing the medication he left behind in Father Kastner's basement in the third film — and Lorraine grabs one of the pills as she heads upstairs to face the mirror demon alone. It quietly reframes the finale: the Warrens' greatest vulnerability in their last case isn't demonic, it's mortal, which is exactly the note a franchise-closer about aging heroes should hit.","scene":"The Smurl house finale — Ed's chest pains on the lower floor while Lorraine goes up to the mirror","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"1428 Elm — Easter eggs in The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://1428elm.com/haunts-hints-and-hidden-treats-easter-eggs-in-the-conjuring-last-rites-01k4zkdk0wt2"},{"label":"Sportskeeda — The Conjuring: Last Rites: 10 Easter eggs and references you probably missed","url":"https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites-10-easter-eggs-references-probably-missed-d8127cfb"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"giant-annabelle-chase","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-giant-annabelle-chase","title":"A Giant Annabelle Hunts Judy Through the Smurl House","description":"Annabelle's second appearance is the film's biggest swing: during a vision in the Smurl house, the doll grows to enormous size and pursues Judy down the upstairs hallway, with Judy pulled out of the vision by her parents just as it reaches her. The doll has never been depicted at that scale anywhere in the franchise, and ScreenRant reads the sequence — together with Judy's new husband Tony curiously lingering by Annabelle's case in the artifact room later — as deliberate table-setting for the doll's story continuing beyond the Warrens' retirement.","scene":"Judy's vision in the Smurl house — upstairs hallway chase","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Annabelle's Surprising Return In The Conjuring: Last Rites Explained","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-annabelle-return-future-setup/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — 13 Easter Eggs & References In The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-last-rites-easter-eggs-horror-references/"}],"motifs":["sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"artifact-room-museum-pieces","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-artifact-room-museum-pieces","title":"The Perron Music Box and Samurai Armor in the Artifact Room","description":"Scenes in the Warrens' artifact room reward a pause button: the cursed music box from the Perron farmhouse case in the original Conjuring sits among the shelves, and the possessed samurai armor — background dressing in the first two Conjuring films before it came alive to menace Judy and Daniela in Annabelle Comes Home — stands watch as well. Annabelle herself remains sealed in her blessed glass case. The samurai suit is a movies-only invention (it doesn't exist in the real Occult Museum), which makes its inclusion a pure in-universe continuity nod rather than a true-story detail.","scene":"The Warrens' artifact room / Occult Museum scenes — check the shelves and corners","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Regal — Iconic Moments in The Conjuring: Last Rites","url":"https://www.regmovies.com/movie-news/the-conjuring-last-rites-iconic-moments"},{"label":"ScreenRant — The Conjuring: Every Haunted Object The Warrens Own","url":"https://screenrant.com/conjuring-universe-warren-museum-every-haunted-object/"}],"motifs":["prop-reused-from-earlier-film"],"referencesSlug":"the-conjuring","referencesWork":null},{"id":"wedding-reunion-cameos","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-wedding-reunion-cameos","title":"The Wedding Reunites Survivors from Every Warren Case","description":"Judy and Tony's wedding is a franchise curtain call: Lili Taylor and Mackenzie Foy return as Carolyn and Cindy Perron from The Conjuring, Frances O'Connor and Madison Wolfe reprise Peggy and Janet Hodgson from The Conjuring 2, Julian Hilliard is back as David Glatzel from The Devil Made Me Do It, and Shannon Kook appears again as tech assistant Drew Thomas. Chaves told CinemaBlend the production 'were trying to get everybody who has ever been in a Conjuring movie into that wedding scene' — Joey King and Ron Livingston couldn't make the England shoot, and a texted invitation to Taissa Farmiga's Sister Irene was scrapped because the timeline math 'was too complex.'","scene":"The wedding finale — scan the guests during the reception","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","callback"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"CinemaBlend — The Conjuring: Last Rites Ending Is Packed With Cameos (Chaves interview)","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/interviews/the-conjuring-last-rites-ending-packed-with-cameos-director-explains-big-scene-came-together"},{"label":"SlashFilm — How The Conjuring: Last Rites' Cameo-Laden Finale Came Together","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1999781/the-conjuring-last-rites-director-movie-cameos-explained/"},{"label":"GamesRadar+ — Last Rites director reveals the one major cameo that didn't pan out","url":"https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/horror-movies/the-conjuring-last-rites-director-reveals-the-one-major-cameo-that-didnt-pan-out-it-was-too-complex-once-you-did-the-math/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-conjuring","referencesWork":null},{"id":"james-wan-wedding-guest","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-james-wan-wedding-guest","title":"James Wan Hides Among the Wedding Guests","description":"The Conjuring universe's architect gets a farewell of his own: James Wan — who directed the first two Conjuring films, created the franchise, and produced Last Rites — appears on camera as one of the guests at Judy and Tony's wedding. Chaves discussed the cameo in his CinemaBlend interview about assembling the finale, and IMDb's trivia page logs Wan among the wedding crowd. Wan almost never puts himself in front of the camera, so his presence at the franchise's send-off party functions as a signature on the whole 12-year, nine-film universe.","scene":"The wedding reception crowd — look for Wan among the guests","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","meta"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"CinemaBlend — The Conjuring: Last Rites Ending Is Packed With Cameos (Chaves interview)","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/interviews/the-conjuring-last-rites-ending-packed-with-cameos-director-explains-big-scene-came-together"},{"label":"IMDb — The Conjuring: Last Rites Trivia","url":"https://m.imdb.com/title/tt22898462/trivia/"}],"motifs":["director-cameo"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"conjuring-mirror-post-credits-photo","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites#egg-conjuring-mirror-post-credits-photo","title":"The Final Frame: The Real 'Conjuring Mirror' Photo","description":"After credits packed with archival footage of the real Warrens, the very last image is a photograph of the real Ed Warren in theatrical costume standing before the actual mirror that inspired the film's villain — an artifact housed in the Warrens' Occult Museum and labeled, remarkably, 'the conjuring mirror.' The Annabelle theme plays over it. Chaves told ScreenRant the franchise-title coincidence was never planned: screenwriters Richard Naing and Ian Goldberg surfaced the real artifact during development, and 'it was really just luck. I loved ending on it, and I love that photo.' The franchise literally ends on the object that shares its name.","scene":"The final image after the end credits finish","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","trivia"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Chaves Reveals Whether The Post-Credits Mirror Was A Coincidence","url":"https://screenrant.com/conjuring-the-last-rites-post-credits-scene-explained-michael-chaves/"},{"label":"Forbes — The Conjuring: Last Rites End Credits And Post-Credits, Explained","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/09/05/the-conjuring-last-rites-end-credits-and-post-credits-explained/"},{"label":"ComicBook — Last Rites Ending & Post-Credits Explained","url":"https://comicbook.com/movies/news/the-conjuring-4-last-rites-ending-post-credits-scene-explained/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in The Conjuring: Last Rites?","answer":"We've documented 18 easter eggs, callbacks, and hidden details in The Conjuring: Last Rites — from the 1964 curio-shop prologue and Annabelle's two appearances to homages to The Exorcist, Poltergeist, The Shining, and Ghostbusters, plus the wedding finale packed with returning cast from all three prior mainline films and the post-credits photo of the real 'Conjuring Mirror.' Three are confirmed on the record by director Michael Chaves."},{"question":"Does The Conjuring: Last Rites have a post-credits scene?","answer":"There's no traditional filmed post-credits scene, but you should stay anyway. The credits run archival photos and footage of the real Ed and Lorraine Warren covering cases from across the franchise, and the very last image is a photograph of the real Ed Warren standing beside the actual haunted mirror — labeled 'the conjuring mirror' — that still sits in the Warrens' Occult Museum collection, with the Annabelle theme playing over it."},{"question":"Who returns for cameos in The Conjuring: Last Rites?","answer":"The wedding finale brings back Lili Taylor and Mackenzie Foy (Carolyn and Cindy Perron, The Conjuring), Frances O'Connor and Madison Wolfe (Peggy and Janet Hodgson, The Conjuring 2), Julian Hilliard (David Glatzel, The Devil Made Me Do It), Shannon Kook (Drew Thomas), and franchise creator James Wan as a guest. Earlier, the Rhode Island cop Brad Hamilton appears at Ed's birthday party — alongside the real Judy Warren and Tony Spera."},{"question":"Is Annabelle in The Conjuring: Last Rites?","answer":"Yes, twice. Early on, Judy sees the doll on a rocking chair in her childhood bedroom and dismisses it as a vision. Later, in the film's boldest sequence, a giant-sized Annabelle chases Judy down the Smurl house's upstairs hallway during a psychic vision. The doll otherwise stays sealed in its blessed case in the Warrens' artifact room — though Judy's husband Tony lingering near it reads as setup for future Annabelle stories."},{"question":"Is The Conjuring: Last Rites based on a true story?","answer":"It's loosely based on the Smurl haunting: Jack and Janet Smurl of West Pittston, Pennsylvania claimed a demon plagued their double-block home on Chase Street between 1974 and 1989. Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated in 1986 and claimed four spirits and one violent entity were present; skeptics disputed the case. The film compresses events, invents the mirror-demon connection to Judy Warren's 1964 birth, and relocates emphasis to the Warrens' family story."}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-09","updatedAt":"2026-08-05","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-conjuring-last-rites","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/the-conjuring-last-rites","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}