The Conjuring creators to craft new horror franchise on LaLaurie Mansion

October 29th 2019, 3:35pm

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Looks like THE CONJURING and THE CONJURING 2 screenwriters Chad and Carey Hayes will be creating a new series of haunted mansion horror movies built around one of the most notorious ‘haunted houses’ in the world, the real-life LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans.

More interesting is the fact that the house's current owner Michael Whalen (it's said Nicolas Cage once owned the place) will be a partner/collaborator on the films and is providing access to the haunted abode with the production set to shoot on-site. Evidently, the brothers have visited the property and – get this shite – may pen the screenplay inside the house itself.

Producer Doug McKay said:

The LaLaurie Mansion is as scary a place as there is in the world and we won’t hold back in giving audiences the full effect. Chad and Carey will have their hands full, but they are true masters in cinematic retellings of disturbing material.

The Hayes brothers added:

We love writing films in which we get to tell true stories – incorporating moments that people can look up and discover did in fact happen. With the LaLaurie House, we get to do exactly that. There is a wealth of documentation of a very dark and frightening past of true events. Not to mention that after spending some time there, what we personally experienced was truly unnerving.

While the LaLaurie Mansion hasn’t allowed any public access since 1932, it was featured as a plot point in the third season of Ryan Murphy's horror anthology series AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN. Kathy Bates played Madame Lalaurie, a New Orleans socialite and serial killer who tortured and murdered slaves there in the early 1800s. After her crimes were exposed following a house fire in 1834, she fled the city and was never arrested.

The ‘LaLaurie Mansion’ films will be developed and produced by Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes, Doug McKay, Cindy Bond and Michael Whalen. Joshua Ryan Dietz and Dylan Bond will serve as executive producers. Local historian Andrew Ward is consulting on the project.