The 8th Entry in a Tiring Horror Franchise Sucks the Soul from Streaming
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There isn’t a high-profile horror franchise on the planet that hasn’t suffered from the law of diminishing returns at least once, with The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It stating an oxymoronic case for the James Wan-backed monolith falling into an all-too-familiar trap. The series is now eight movies deep, and a cumulative box office haul north of $2.1 billion makes it the single highest-grossing spooky property in the history of the business, but there’s been a downturn in quality that’s…