The Conjuring - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[liam]

In the scene where the Warrens showed students footage of an exorcism in the auditorium, the priest was played by George Zervos: chair of the Philosophy and Religion department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

[sylvia]

Lorraine Warren: Elder woman in the front row of the classroom when Carolyn is listening to the Warrens' presentation.

[nicholas]

This was the nineteenth highest-grossing film of its year (2013).

[marc]

When the Hayes brothers and Lorraine Warren (a real-life demonologist) would chat on the phone about the script, they kept getting cut off by weird sounds and a lot of static. Then, out of nowhere, the line would suddenly go dead.

[victoria]

A movie based on the Perron family house had been in the works for over twenty years. It first surfaced when Ed Warren played a tape of his interview with Carolyn Perron to producer Tony DeRosa-Grund.

[fred]

Stefania LaVie Owen auditioned for the role of Christine.

[jesse]

The film was given an R rating by the MPAA. The filmmakers had thought the final cut had a chance of getting the more-box office friendly PG-13 rating, and asked the ratings board for clarification. The MPAA said simply that the film was so scary that there were no cuts or edits possible that would make it a viable PG-13 film; the filmmakers did not want to alter the film's tone and accepted the R rating without any appeals.

[brent]

The real Annabelle doll was actually a used Raggedy Ann doll that was bought by Donna's mother at a hobby shop and was known for not only leaving notes on parchment when there was no parchment around but also attacked a friend named Lou by mysteriously leaving claw marks on his chest. The makers of the movie decided to make a more sinister-looking doll of porcelain for the movie.

[bernard]

Director James Wan wanted to take the feeling of the original The Haunting (1963) and apply it to The Conjuring.

[linda]

This was the first film directed by James Wan to not feature a cameo of the Billy puppet doll from the Saw (2004) film series.

[leo]

The film broke box office records after bringing in a total of $41 million during its opening weekend. It stands as the third highest-grossing opening weekend for an R-rated horror film behind Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) and Hannibal (2001). The Conjuring made a total of $137 million at the domestic box office.