The Conjuring: Last Rites scores 62% on Rotten Tomatoes, marking a divisive end to the horror franchise 

The Conjuring: Last Rites has officially landed with a 62% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and the reactions are rather split. Marketed as the final chapter in James Wan’s supernatural saga, the film finds Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga returning once more as Ed and Lorraine Warren, but critics are torn between applauding its emotional farewell and rolling their eyes at its familiar scares.

On the one hand, reviews praise the leads’ chemistry and the attempt to wrap the franchise in a poignant bow. On the other hand, many point out that director Michael Chaves leans too heavily on old tricks, with pacing issues and clichés dragging the horror down. Major outlets highlight this divide: it’s a decent goodbye for longtime fans, but hardly a reinvention for a genre that thrives on innovation and a year that has fared pretty well in terms of horror.

With a cast that also includes Ben Hardy and Mia Tomlinson, and a release timed for September 5, 2025, The Conjuring: Last Rites is shaping up to be exactly what a 62% score suggests: not a total disaster, not a triumph either, but a bittersweet and divisive curtain call for one of modern horror’s most famous franchises.

How The Conjuring: Last Rites fares among it's predecessors

When it comes to Rotten Tomatoes scores, The Conjuring: Last Rites' 62% is not a ghostly disaster, but not one of the franchise's highest either. It plants itself right in the franchise’s middle ground. At the top of the chain, you’ve got The Conjuring with 86% and The Conjuring 2 with 80%, both James Wan classics that critics still hail as modern horror staples. Annabelle: Creation with 70% sneaks into that higher tier as a surprisingly solid prequel.

Then comes the middle pack, where Annabelle Comes Home with 64% and now The Conjuring: Last Rites with 62%.

Drop down a level and the cobwebs thicken. The Devil Made Me Do It with 56% and The Nun II with 51% lurk in that “meh” territory; not unwatchable, but not worth lighting a candle over. And way down in the crypt lie the true franchise sins: Annabelle at 28%, The Curse of La Llorona at 26%, and The Nun at 24%. Critics pretty much exorcized those long ago.

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So, where does that leave The Conjuring: Last Rites? About fifth place in a ten-film saga. Slightly above average with enough heart from Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson to keep fans invested, but too familiar to climb higher.

However, for now, we will wait for the film to drop and for horror fans and the audience to review their thoughts on The Conjuring: Last Rites. Hitting theaters on 5th September, 2025, time will tell if the film gives a fitting goodbye to the Conjuring franchise or not.

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