The Reality Regarding The Ed Warren Heart Attack
Although there was a heart attack during David Glatzel's actual exorcism, David had it rather than Ed Warren. The Conjering series alters actual events in all the Ed and Lorraine Warren cases it records, and "true story" is always going to be a grey area with accounts of ghosts and demonic possession. Ed Warren did not have a heart attack during any of the multiple exorcisms the genuine David Glatzel went through with the Warrens present, though.
Though he did have a horrific encounter with "the beast" during the exorcism, Ed Warren was not even present during the one where Johnson invited the demon into his body. Based on interviews with the Warrens and the Glatzel family, Gerald Brittle's book on the case, The Devil in Connecticut, asserts Arne summoned the devil into his own body to save David's life, not Ed's. Brittle claims that the demon had pushed David to the point of death and made him beg his mother to spare his life, thereby trying repeatedly to bring about an end to the exorcisms. The portrayal of David's violent exorcism and Ed's heart attack in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It draws on this section of the book.
Real Ed Warren suffered from heart issues.
As many viewers know, the basis for The Conjuring films is the actual paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. Ed Warren did have cardiac problems in later life linked to his ultimate death, even though he did not have a heart attack during David Glatzel's actual exorcism. Though the real Ed Warren passed away in the 2000s, this came decades after David Glatzel's exorcism in 1981.
Ed Warren did suffer heart failure in 2001 several years later. He stayed in a coma for eleven weeks following the attending paramedics were able to restart his heart. In the years that followed, his health kept failing; he died on August 23, 2006, in his house with Lorraine at his side. Ed was once asked whether he dreaded death, according to his obituary, and he answered: "No, I don't fear it, not one bit. I know I will be visiting a lovely location.
The Conjuring 3: Real-Life Account
In The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, a demon nearly kills Patrick Wilson's character; many speculate whether the actual Ed Warren experienced a heart attack while on a case. Based on the trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson (Ruairi O'Connor), who in 1981 entered not guilty to killing his landlord on the grounds that he was possessed by a demon at the time and not under control of his actions, Michael Chaves directed the third movie in the Conjuring universe.
The Devil Made Me Do It opens with the exorcism of David Glatzel, a small child known as Jullian Hillard. Called in to advise on the matter, psychic investigator Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) and her husband, demonologist Ed Warren, are assisting in the exorcism when the possessed David breaks free from his bonds and targets Ed. The demon seeks to halt Ed's heart using its powers, sets off a heart attack that sends him to the hospital. Many have questioned whether the heart attack is based on actual events and what the cause of death for the actual Ed Warren was even while Ed does not die.
The Conjuring Reworded Actual Events
The heart attack Ed Warren experiences in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do The Conjering franchise altered the actual narrative of Ed and Lorraine Warren's other cases at other times as well. Although this doesn't really affect the franchise overall as they are horror films rather than documentaries, numerous critics have noted out this anyway. One particularly noteworthy instance of this is found in The Conjuring 2, which examined the Enfield Poltergeist case.
Ed and Lorraine are present all through the movie's haunting, yet in actual life they apparently spent not much time with the family. For the movie, their presence throughout the 1970s and the haunting afflicting the Hodgson family in the UK was significantly overdone. Furthermore, unlike in the film, the Warren's were not requested to investigate; Ed Warren traveled of his own will, shocking the actual Hodgson family when he returned.
Painting Universe
James Wan's Conjurverse has grown to eight pictures since 2013's The Conjuring; two more and a series due, but which Conjurverse movie is the best?
The Conjuring series is among the largest in horror history, and it's clear why given these kinds of terrifying events they keep presenting. For those who enjoy horror, it presents something to look forward with an ensemble cast of horrific tales.
