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The Conjuring 4 has started filming in the UK ahead of its release in cinemas next September.
While it was originally thought to be called The Conjuring: Last Rites, the new movie does not currently have an official title, but it does now have its first new cast members (more on them in a bit).
We don't yet know what The Conjuring 4 will be about, but we do know that it'll mark the final outing for Ed and Lorraine Warren. It might not be the end of the entire universe though, which has expanded to include multiple spin-offs.
Michael Chaves – who directed The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It and The Nun II – is directing the new movie, while Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick – who wrote the second and third movies – returned to write the new movie.
Now that filming has started, here's everything you need to know about The Conjuring 4.
The Conjuring 4 release date: When can we expect The Conjuring 4?
The Conjuring 4 will be released in cinemas on September 5, 2025, marking a change from the usual early summer slots for The Conjuring movies.
Filming officially started in September 2024 in London so barring any production delays, hopefully everything is on track for that 2025 release date.
The Conjuring 4 cast: Who's coming back for The Conjuring 4?
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are, of course, back as Ed and Lorraine Warren – it's not a Conjuring movie without them.
We also now know that they'll be joined by Ben Hardy and Mia Tomlinson in the new movie. Their characters have yet to be officially confirmed, but expect them to be the centre of whatever supernatural event the Warrens are investigating.
If you can't wait for The Conjuring 4 to see the Warrens again, they pop up in The Nun 2 credit scene in a brief teaser for the next movie.
Other returns are harder to predict, especially since the third movie didn't feature many crossovers from the wider Conjuring universe.
Sterling Jerins reprised her role as Judy Warren, while there were also return appearances for Steve Coulter as Father Gordon and Shannon Kook as Drew Thomas. All of them could be back in the fourth movie, but that's probably it for comebacks.
The Conjuring 4 plot: Which cases could The Conjuring 4 cover?
Even though The Conjuring 4 is now filming, we don't know which case of the Warrens has been picked for their final big-screen outing.
The third movie ended in November 1981 after the trial of Arne Johnson, and we can assume that The Conjuring 4 will take place after this in the timeline.
That still leaves some interesting cases from the real-life experiences of the Warrens that could be used as a basis for a new movie, which could see them head back into a haunted house.
In 1986, the Warrens investigated a double helping of haunted houses with the Snedeker house and the Smurl Haunting. The former has already loosely inspired The Haunting in Connecticut, and both revolved around houses supposedly infested by demons.
After the third movie broke out of the haunted house formula, it might be a disappointing backwards step for the series to return to one.
If they want to avoid that trope, there's a case that's yet to be covered from the Warrens' case files that holds a lot of promise: the legend of the White Lady at the Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut.
While the Warrens didn't directly investigate the phenomenon, they have claimed to have a video of the White Lady in action and have written a book about it.
It's said that the spirit appears in a delicate white nightgown or wedding dress and moves through the cemetery, with reports that drivers have even seen her outside of the cemetery, causing them to swerve.
"I can tell you that I know for a fact that this place is haunted, it's one of the most haunted places around," noted Lorraine Warren – and if that isn't scope for a Conjuring movie, we don't know what is.
The Conjuring 4 is released in cinemas on September 5, 2025.