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Lorraine is clairvoyant, but their connection runs deeper than that.
Its what makes the franchise so, so unique and sets it apart, Farmiga adds.
It is a story about love, Farmiga explains.
Its love for each other.
Its love for their higher power.
Love for what they do.
Love for the people that they attempt to help.
Theres so much love to display.
Ed worries about her and suggests that they take a break from their research.
Immediately, things start to go bump in the night.
The mother keeps waking up with strange bruises on her body.
The clocks stop at the same time every night and the house often smells like rancid meat.
The girls play hide and clap, a blindfolded hide-and-seek game where players locate each other by clapping.
The film is tender throughout.
Ed and Lorraine reach for each other, almost subconsciously, and tend to migrate together during scenes.
Where one goes, the other follows.
The characters seem to fit together.
They check in on each other frequently.
After a particularly grueling night in the house, they hang the Perron familys laundry together.
They embrace and tease moving out to the country together.
Its perhaps the greatest example of the franchises signature whiplash between romance and horror.
That is definitely mined in this film and the previous films.
It comes from a great friendship offscreen, and a great respect for each other as actors.
The rapport is palpable.
In conversation, they build off of and defer to one another.
When Wilsons microphone unexpectedly cuts out for a minute, hes apologetic.
Its okay, hon, Farmiga reassures, before returning to the discussion.
She chalks their partnership up to their synergies being good together.
During a seance in Amityville, she comes across a terrifying nun and foresees Eds death.
This time, Lorraine is the one to request that they take a break from work.
Ed acquiesces, until the church calls them overseas to England to look into the Enfield poltergeist of 1977.
They tell her that the key was finding someone who believed them.
So it becomes this idyllic love and I think thats very hopeful for people.
She reaches out for him and the two slow-dance in their living room until the screen fades to black.
Its a shockingly intimate and decidedly un-horrific scene to end on, but it ultimately underscores the franchises priorities.
Its funny, because I think they really created these characters, he says, regarding Farmiga and Wilson.
These characters have developed over the course of these three movies.
The latter served as a consultant on the franchise until her death.
The legal troubles havent slowed the franchise down.
Theres so many different flavors in this one, Chavez says.
Without a doubt, first and foremost, its a horror movie.
Then we have elements of a thriller.
But I think that the love story is incredibly strong.
At the base level, it separates the characters from the demons theyre up against.
Farmiga offers a simple theory.
Its a salve, love, isnt it?
Love is a salve.
Its as simple as that, she says.
It has a great power to soothe and comfort; its inoculation right after you experience such fear.
Its a completely awesome balance.
