{"id":109666,"date":"2025-08-25T20:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/109666\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T20:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:28:09","slug":"patrick-wilson-vera-farmiga-react-to-matt-rife-buying-conjuring-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/109666\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga react to Matt Rife buying &#8216;Conjuring&#8217; house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paranormal property. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Conjuring\u201d stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga weighed in on comedian Matt Rife <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/02\/real-estate\/matt-rife-purchases-ed-lorraine-warrens-connecticut-home-and-museum-becomes-guardian-of-demonic-annabelle-doll\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">buying the Connecticut home and museum<\/a> of their real-life characters,\u00a0Ed and Lorraine Warren.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d love to pick his brain,\u201d Farmiga, 52, told<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/patrick-wilson-vera-farmiga-react-matt-rife-buying-conjuring-house-exclusive-11794020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> People<\/a> in an interview published Monday, adding that she saw the real estate news that broke earlier this month and sent it to Wilson, 52.<\/p>\n<p>Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson in \u201cThe Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.\u201d AP<\/p>\n<p>Farmiga explained she had been \u201cso curious as to what was going to happen\u201d with the house and wonders what Rife\u2019s \u201cintentions are\u201d in buying it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a private little street. There are neighbors everywhere,\u201d Wilson noted. \u201c[The Warrens] lived in the same house for a long, long time, so it\u2019s not like some estate on a massive acreage. It\u2019s just on a block. It\u2019s a normal house on a street in Monroe, Connecticut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I am curious,\u201d Wilson continued. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine the people that live on that street want lines of cars paying money to go into the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elton Castee and Matt Rife bought the \u201cConjuring\u201d house. Comedian Matt Rife\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The real Annabelle doll at the \u201cConjuring\u201d house. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n<p>A photo from inside the \u201cConjuring\u201d house and museum. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cConjuring\u201d house is in Monroe, CT. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n<p>The home, located in Monroe, Conn.,\u00a0was once owned by the real-life couple who conducted over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/20\/amityville-horror-paranormal-investigator-lorraine-warren-dies-at-92\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3,000 paranormal investigations<\/a>\u00a0that inspired movies like<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/04\/the-haunting-real-story-behind-the-conjuring\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u201cThe Conjuring\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/13\/us-news\/amityville-horror-house-may-still-be-haunted-50-years-after-murders-that-sparked-haunting-craze\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u201cThe Amityville Horror.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rife, 29, announced Aug. 1 he bought the house alongside his pal and YouTube star Elton Castee and was the new \u201clegal guardian\u201d of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/01\/us-news\/demonic-annabelle-doll-safely-back-in-custody-after-claims-it-escaped-caused-havoc-in-nola\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">famed Annabelle doll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, he did clarify that they don\u2019t have permanent ownership of the 750 haunted artifacts and items in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/31\/us-news\/peek-inside-the-real-life-conjuring-museum-where-you-need-holy-water-to-visit-annabelle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Warren museum.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Conjuring films are my favorite scary movies of all time,\u201d the stand-up comic shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@matt_rife\/video\/7533784806237211917?referer_url=nypost.com%2F2025%2F08%2F02%2Freal-estate%2Fmatt-rife-purchases-ed-lorraine-warrens-connecticut-home-and-museum-becomes-guardian-of-demonic-annabelle-doll%2F&amp;refer=embed&amp;embed_source=121374463%2C121468991%2C121439635%2C121749182%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121497414%2C121477481%2C121351166%2C121811500%2C121487028%2C121679410%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%2C121819198%3Bnull%3Bembed_blank&amp;referer_video_id=7533784806237211917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>. \u201cSo I\u2019m incredibly honored to have taken over one of the most prominent properties in paranormal history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Rife attends a New York Knicks game in Nov. 2023. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Annabelle doll in the \u201cConjuring\u201d house. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n<p>The Annabelle doll is in the \u201cConjuring\u201d house that Matt Rife now owns. Comedian Matt Rife\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Vera Farmiga, Frances O\u2019Connor, Simon McBurney, Patrick Wilson in \u201cThe Conjuring 2.\u201d \u00a9New Line Cinema\/courtesy Everett \/ Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>Farmiga joked that she hopes Rife \u201cdoesn\u2019t have a garage sale\u201d following his big purchase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019d be funny,\u201d\u00a0Wilson said with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Rife has not revealed how much he spent for the \u201cConjuring\u201d house.<\/p>\n<p>The Warrens lived there for several decades and opened the museum in the basement in 1952. Ed died in\u00a02006 at the age of 79, while Lorraine <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/20\/amityville-horror-paranormal-investigator-lorraine-warren-dies-at-92\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died in 2019 <\/a>at the age of 92.<\/p>\n<p>Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson in \u201cThe Conjuring 2.\u201d \u00a9New Line Cinema\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>The doll that inspired the horror movie \u201cAnnabelle.\u201d Comedian Matt Rife\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The real Annabelle doll was used to be owned by Ed and Lorraine Warren. Comedian Matt Rife\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The home and museum were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/15\/us-news\/paranormal-investigator-dan-rivera-dies-on-annabelle-haunted-doll-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not open to the public<\/a>\u00a0in recent years after it was shut down in 2019 due to zoning issues.<\/p>\n<p>Farmiga and Wilson first played the Warrens in 2013\u2019s \u201cThe Conjuring\u201d and returned for<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/03\/the-conjuring-the-devil-made-me-do-it-review-dull-horror\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> multiple more films<\/a> in the horror franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The duo will say goodbye to their characters in \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites,\u201d which comes out in theaters Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paranormal property. \u201cThe Conjuring\u201d stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga weighed in on comedian Matt Rife buying the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[1508,38974,88,954,6842,989,206,39406,39407],"class_list":["post-109666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-actors","tag-comedians","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-horror","tag-houses","tag-movies","tag-patrick-wilson","tag-vera-farmiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}