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Audience members ‘possessed’ during ‘The Conjuring 3’ screening in theater
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A screengrab from a video posted to @witeewittee's TikTok account captures the moment audience members began screaming as if possessed. (TikTok /Courtesy of @witeewitee TikTok's account)
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viral video on Monday, June 14 captured the scene when more than one audience member in a movie theater in Jatiasih, Bekasi showing The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It were seemingly possessed and had to be taken away.
The TikTok video posted by user @witeewitee went viral as she showed how the movie was stopped midway and several moviegoers gathered around someone who was screaming and shouting as if possessed.
“I actually heard the person screaming and shouting from early on, but I didn’t know they were possessed,” Wite, the account owner, said.
“Then suddenly the rows behind and in front of them started to get rowdy. Then several minutes later, the lights came on, the movie was paused, and the people screaming were escorted out of the theater,” she told Liputan6.com.
The video was shared across social media platforms, with many users weighing in on the plausibility of the incident. “[They’re just] looking for attention,” user @arsyaa1435 commented on an Instagram post. “Maybe this is more like a panic attack [...] just like when someone had a seizure when watching Joker,” user @vy_butterfly said on Twitter.
The movie itself contains various scenes of demonic possession and exorcism. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) is based on the trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, a murder case in Connecticut, 1981. The case was called “Devil Made Me Do It” particularly because it marked the first time in the United States that a defendant claimed “demonic possession” as a defense.
The horror movie is the sequel to the first and second The Conjuring movies, which were released in 2013 and 2016. It is currently showing in many theaters across the country.
