The 8th entry in a tiresome horror franchise sucks the soul from streaming

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There’s not a high-profile horror franchise on the planet that hasn’t suffered from the law of diminishing returns at least once The incantation: The devil made me do this a contradictory case for the James Wan-backed monolith falling into an all-too-familiar trap.

The series is now eight films long and a cumulative grossing of over $2.1 billion makes it the chillingly highest-grossing single in the history of the business, but there’s been a drop in quality that’s been increasingly difficult to ignore most recently few chapters.

The nun is the highest-earning entry in the entire Conjuring universe, but it also has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score. In the meantime, The devil made me do it grossed an impressive $206 million from theaters despite releasing simultaneously on HBO Max in the midst of the pandemic, but a 55 percent approval rating on the aggregation side pales in comparison to the 80 and 86 percent of its Wan-directed predecessors.

A sequel to The nun is on the way and The incantation 4 sure will happen at some point, though The hunchbacked man The cancellation of the spinoff suggests the saga isn’t quite as bulletproof as it used to be. In any case, The devil made me do it has shed its reputation as a crushingly disappointing continuation of a top-notch saga, being revived when needed.

According to FlixPatrol, the latest supernatural investigation led by the Warrens is among the top 10 most-watched features on the global Prime Video charts because things that bang at night never go out of style.