This entry in the Conjuring universe pales in comparison to a lot of the other films, but as a directorial debut for Michael Chaves this isn’t half-bad.  
         Linda Cardinelli plays a social worker who believes there may be a pair of children getting abused by their mother.  As the story unfolds, she learns that there are much more than natural forces at work, and her own family is soon threatened by evil.  Raymond Cruz, a former priest who has become a sort of witch doctor specializing in warding off evil spirits and ejecting them from the abodes of the haunted, attempts to aid in the evacuation of the demonic presence at hand.  
         There’s plenty of frightening imagery throughout, but unfortunately the movie relies a lot on jump scares, and some of it grows repetitious.