The box office is becoming a scary place these days.
And for the first time in a long time, it’s scary in a good way.
Just a week after A Quiet Place Part II lured the horror faithful back into darkened multiplexes, the latest chapter in the hit husband-and-wife demonologist saga, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, scared its way to a No.
1 opening in North America with a stronger-than-anticipated $24 million debut weekend.The latest film in Warner Bros.
and New Line’s fright franchise is the third official Conjuring film starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as married paranormal sleuths, but the eighth overall when you factor in such spin-offs as the Annabelle movies, The Nun, and La Llorona—which combine to make up what we’ll call The Conjuring Cinematic Universe.
Together, they make up the top-grossing horror franchise of all time with $1.9 billion at the global box office.
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