I watched this with my 16-year-old son and we liked it, peeking through our fingers and laughing in equal measure.

With its third-act stumbles, it never quite catches either The Conjuring or The Conjuring 2, but it proves there is still spirit left in this franchise.

The biographical nuts and bolts are intriguing and, as ever, the jump scares and murk are professionally timed and delivered.

The new element that was the most interesting, that I wished they explored more of was the Satanic element, specifically playing into the 80’s era satanic panic.