Sometimes real life feels even too absurd for the movies, which is exactly how I felt when I read that comedian Matt Rife was buying The Warren’s houses and the Annabelle Doll. And, as insane as that headline reads, it's true. Now the director of the newly released The Conjuring: Last Rites, Michael Chaves, reacted to the information in a way I was not expecting.
Chaves isn’t clutching a crucifix over the Matt Rife headlines, mind you. However, the filmmaker is instead pitching a film that feels like it could be right at home on the upcoming horror movie schedule. When asked about the comedian buying Ed and Lorraine Warren’s former Connecticut home and becoming legal guardian of the Annabelle doll, the Nun II helmer laid out a concept to Entertainment Weekly, imagining a “Phase 2.” He explained:
