Wolves at the Door

The 2016 Tate-murders horror from Annabelle's director, set in the Conjuring Universe.

Wolves at the Door is a 2016 American horror film directed by John R. Leonetti and written by Gary Dauberman, loosely based on the 1969 murder of Sharon Tate and her friends by the Manson Family. Katie Cassidy, Elizabeth Henstridge, Adam Campbell and Miles Fisher play four friends stalked and killed by intruders at a farewell party, and Eric Ladin returns as Detective Clarkin from Leonetti's 2014 film Annabelle.

Though not counted as a franchise instalment, it takes place within The Conjuring Universe.

Quick Facts

Director

John R. Leonetti

Producer

Peter Safran

Writer

Gary Dauberman

Starring

Katie Cassidy
Elizabeth Henstridge
Adam Campbell
Miles Fisher

Music

Toby Chu

Cinematography

Michael St. Hilaire

Editing

Ken Blackwell

Studio

New Line Cinema; The Safran Company

Facts from the source article.

Background

The film opens with a married couple, John and Mary, woken by knocks at their doors and windows; the intruders break in and write messages in blood before the police arrive. The next night Sharon, Jay, Wojciech and Abigail celebrate Abigail's move back to Boston with dinner at El Coyote before returning to Sharon's house.

A visitor, Steven, is attacked with a sledgehammer in the driveway, Wojciech is stabbed, Jay is killed on the couch and the word Pig is written in blood on the front door. Abigail escapes to the street, but Sharon and Wojciech are dragged away.

Produced by New Line Cinema and The Safran Company and distributed by Warner Bros., it opened in India on October 21, 2016, in Germany and the United Kingdom in March 2017 and on Digital HD in the United States on April 18, 2017. Critics panned it, with a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, calling its depiction of the Tate murders exploitative.