The Conjuring 3’s Lost Demon Explained (& Why He Was Cut)

The Conjuring 3’s Lost Demon Explained (& Why He Was Cut)

The Conjuring 3’s director, Michael Chaves, recently revealed new info on a “lost demon” from the film. Here’s the story behind him & why he was cut.

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The Conjuring 3’s Lost Demon Explained (& Why He Was Cut)

The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It introduces The Occultist and the insidious demon she’s made a dark bargain with – but here’s an explanation for why an additional demon was cut from the film. The recent franchise installment portrays the real-life 1981 murder case of Arne Johnson (Ruairi O’Connor), who infamously cited demonic possession as the reason behind his crime. Naturally, evil spirits controlling humans and wreaking havoc are a key part of the movie.

The opening scene even sets the tone with one of David Glatzel’s (Julian Hilliard) harrowing exorcisms. It’s already been pointed out that the film omits 41 of Glatzel’s demon hosts from the real-life story, but it turns out that those weren’t the only evil spirits left out of the project. On August 24, director Michael Chaves tweeted a brief video of a “lost demon” from the movie during “The Conjuring Watch Party.” It’s a behind-the-scenes monitor clip of actor Davis Osborne playing an apparition that was supposed to visit Arne in his prison cell. It’s certainly spooky to watch the tophat-sporting demon lunge from the shadows to offer some eerie intimidation before retreating back to his concealment. As Chaves says in his tweet, “Even with this footage on the monitor he [Osborne] was really scary.”

Of course, this clip begs the question as to why the lost demon was left out of the film anyway. In June, Chaves told /Film that Osborne’s character – who the director had also believed would be the subject of a later Conjuring spin-off – had originally been planned as a villain that The Occultist (Eugenie Bondurant) would be working with in the story. He said, “We had a demon that was full-on pulled from little David’s interview and description. Arnie said he saw the same thing. And it felt like this was going to be the iconic demon.” But, as fans now know, none of that came to be. Chaves said in the same interview regarding the film’s plot and how it would have worked with the lost villain, “We’re introducing a human adversary, which was the first time that’s ever happened in the Conjuring Universe. So all of a sudden, [the] relationship [between the Occultist and the demon] seemed a little hinky.” He also acknowledged that the version of the movie with Osborne’s demon would’ve over-complicated the plot.

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Despite the final outcome, both Osborne and his demon still played minor parts in The Conjuring 3. In the previously mentioned /Film article, Chaves also said that the valued actor ended up playing the prison infirmary patient who haunts Arnie. And during the watch party, Chaves revealed – via another one of his tweets – that the spirit who torments David in The Conjuring 3’s memorable waterbed scene is actually the lost demon. Funnily enough, Osborne and his omitted character still end up making an impact. Along with David Glatzel’s exorcism in the opening sequence, the waterbed and infirmary scenes are some of the movie’s scarier, more jump-worthy moments.

Chaves seems to have made the right call as far as not adding another piece to the plot; there’s already quite a bit going on within it. The Glatzel-Johnson backstory is fleshed out (as it should be; it’s necessary), viewers meet a new kind of Conjuring villain in The Occultist, and there’s even the touching love story component between Ed and Lorraine. All of the pieces work together in the final product, but, even so, there’s already a slew of threads condensed into one film. It was best to use Osborne in another capacity, rework the storyline, and leave the lost demon in briefly as a sort of Conjuring Easter egg.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/conjuring-3-lost-demon-explained-cut-reason/

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