When a horror franchise promises an end, especially a franchise as successful as The Conjuring, you expect massive box office numbers, which Last Rites delivered for Warner Bros. However, this finale doesn't feel definitive, no matter what the opening scroll or epilogue suggests. I was promised some kind of shockwave for Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, respectively) to get them to quit ghost hunting, but I was given another standard paranormal case, simply with more involvement from their family. It drags considerably too, trying to really drive home that the Warrens weren’t doing investigations anymore despite what we all knew. Bloated and uninteresting was not the exclamation point we deserved.