The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

4. The Hugely Underwhelming Script

Similarly, the script feels a fair few rungs below its predecessors - while the first two Conjuring movies spent time fleshing out their characters, everything here feels totally surface-level.

The central victim this time around, a young man possessed by a demon to carry out a murder (Ruairi O'Connor), feels more like a plot device than a distinct character in his own right, while Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) have never had less meaningful material to work with.

Despite the series' laudable attempt to move away from the formula of its predecessors, the titular case is largely just window dressing for a series of mediocre investigation sequences and predictably daft set-pieces.

Between the laziness of the formula and occasional lapses into excess silliness, the script feels like someone attempting to ape the existing template rather than delivering something truly within the same vein.