The Conjuring 4: Last Rites (2025)
Genre: Supernatural Horror | Thriller
Director: Michael Chaves
Produced by: James Wan, Peter Safran
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Sterling Jerins, and new additions Bill Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy
In The Conjuring 4: Last Rites, Ed and Lorraine Warren face their most chilling and personal case yet — one that forces them to confront not only a terrifying demonic force, but also the dark secrets of the Church itself.
The film opens in Rome, 1982. A young priest is found dead in a sealed crypt beneath the Vatican — his body contorted, mouth sewn shut, and surrounded by Latin scriptures scorched into the stone walls. The Vatican covers it up as a "ritual accident."
But a hidden letter reaches the Warrens.
It reads only: “She’s awakening. The Last Rite must not be completed.”
Back in Connecticut, Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) is haunted by visions of a nun whispering in reverse Latin, dragging children into dark water. Ed (Patrick Wilson) brushes it off as residual trauma — until a desperate call comes from the Church.
Father Menendez, a Vatican envoy, asks the Warrens to investigate a monastery in Spain where several nuns have gone missing, and ancient rites have been mysteriously halted. Their only clue? All the events mirror the signs of a lost ritual known as "The Ninth Rite" — a ceremony believed to banish a forbidden entity named Matarra, the so-called “Bride of the Abyss.”
Ed and Lorraine travel to the remote monastery nestled in the Spanish Pyrenees. The air is thick with silence. The surviving nuns speak of black veils moving through walls, a ringing bell that no one rings, and children’s laughter in the night — despite there being no children there.
Lorraine is drawn to a hidden catacomb below the chapel where she finds ancient texts sealed by blood. The pages describe Matarra: a pre-Christian spirit of grief and vengeance, awakened through desecration of sacred rites — specifically, interrupted last rites.
They realize: someone is intentionally disrupting dying prayers — preventing souls from passing on — to feed Matarra.
Strange occurrences escalate. A young novitiate named Lucia (Anya Taylor-Joy) is possessed during mass. Lorraine confronts the entity inside her, only to be told,
“Your gift was stolen from her. You owe her.”
The Warrens uncover a terrible truth: before Lorraine, another clairvoyant girl trained under the Church was used in failed exorcisms — and she was left behind. That girl was Matarra, now a vengeful spirit punishing the Church for its sins.
Worse — Ed begins experiencing heart episodes again, just as Lorraine sees visions of him dying with no priest to give him last rites. The prophecy is clear: Matarra will consume Ed’s soul unless the rite is completed — but no priest dares to perform it, fearing the spirit’s wrath.
The Warrens prepare a desperate ritual to face Matarra. Lorraine offers herself in place of Ed, demanding the entity take her instead.
But as Matarra manifests fully — a horrifying figure veiled in black, weeping blood and whispering Latin prayers — Lucia, now freed, steps forward. She performs the Last Rites over Lorraine, not as a priest, but with the pure belief of faith, breaking the old rule.
The final battle occurs in the monastery’s bell tower as Matarra tries to drag Lorraine into the abyss. Ed, risking death, rings the bell himself — breaking the curse and flooding the tower with blinding light.
Matarra screams, burns, and vanishes.
Ed survives but is weakened. Lorraine’s powers seem to fade. They return home, thinking their work is done.
But as they rest, a Vatican courier arrives. A second letter is delivered. This time, it reads:
"The Ninth Rite was only the beginning. The Tenth has been written in blood."
Cut to black.
"Before death comes peace. Unless she gets there first."
