The Crooked Man Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Key Facts

• As James Wan explains to Entertainment Weekly (8/7/17), “We think we have a really exciting story. What we want to do, with The Conjuring universe, is we want each of our little offshoots to have a very different flavor, right? So, for example, Annabelle is the classic sort-of haunted doll subgenre. And with The Crooked Man, I would love to push it more down somewhat of that dark fairytale, and more whimsical, subgenre. I love the idea that, within the Conjuring universe, each of our little movies all have their own flavor, so that way they don’t feel like they’re the same films."
• The Crooked Man character is based on an English nursery rhyme: "There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile/ He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile/ He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse/ And they all lived together in a little crooked house."
• Based on a story by James Wan. Based on the character in The Conjuring 2,