Instead of challenging assumptions, exploring implications or discussing the difficult questions here, Holt merely mines the material for superficial shock value and lurid titillation.

Like everything about this saga, lucid and verifiable specifics are in short supply.

A poorly organized narrative and unnecessary use of AI doom this ineffectual examination of one of the Warrens' most sensational cases.

It has all the right ingredients: a true story, some convincing re-enactments, the air of exclusivity (use of real archives), but it still feels like a let-down to the true horror buffs who'd tune in expecting something fresh.