The Evocation Universe (ABV) is an alternate and common world constructed by a series of films jointly produced by Warner Bros. and New Line Films. Horror movie master Wen Ziren single-handedly expanded the Soul Conjuring Universe.
The American horror thriller film "The Conjuring" series is one of the representatives of the horror genre, the "Conjuring" series from 2013 to 2021, after 8 years of hard work, constantly expanding the story line, so far a total of 8 movies have been born, and the birth of the "Conjuring" universe, the series has achieved great success in business and word-of-mouth, the total box office ranked second in the horror film box office list.
Plot time in order
The Curse of the Weeping Woman → The Nun → Annabelle 2: Birth→ Annabelle → The Conjuring → Annabelle 3: Homecoming→ The Conjuring 2 → The Conjuring 3
Annabelle
The origin of the story is from 1943 in the west of California, there is a well-known puppeteer Sammu mulin, but on a family trip home from the church, the truck suddenly broke down, and daughter Annabelle in order to help her father retrieve the screws dropped in the middle of the road, but unfortunately was killed on the spot by the car speeding behind, the heartbroken Mullin couple constantly begged the heavens every day to resurrect their daughter, but accidentally attracted the possession of evil spirits, and this is also the source of all the stories.
Finally, he was surrendered by the Warrens and sealed in the exhibition room.
"Ghost Nun" Valak
The origin of the story is from the 1952 Monastery of Calata in Romania, which is found to be a cursed evil order controlled by the evil spirit "Valak" in Solomon's Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons, who thought that the final outcome was successfully sealed with the holy blood of Jesus, but in fact, in the process of the fight, it secretly possessed part of the soul of the French Canadian Lunqi, allowing Valak to continue to wreak havoc on the human world freely.
He is eventually defeated by the Warrens and banished back to Hell.
"Weeping Woman" Worried Lorna
It is said that she gave birth to two sons with a white male nobleman, but found that her husband was cheating, and she killed her two relatives in a fit of anger to take revenge, but when she regained her senses, she regretted it so much that she jumped into the river and committed suicide. In the end, she was punished by God and cursed to find the whereabouts of her child, or she would be a lone ghost forever. She searched for it in this way, so she took away the souls of many children, and she still searched for it until now, so she was very painful and regretted. Because she is in a ghost state, she is crying from time to time, and she is called "Melanna" (which means crying in Spanish). It is said that as long as you let Merona see a child like her own flesh and blood, she will be taken to the river and drowned; and as long as she hears Herona's cries, no matter how far she runs or how fast she runs, she will be found.
In the end, Anna's family and the priest helped to eliminate Gorona.
The movies are as follows:
The Nun (2018): Took place in 1952
Directed by Colin Hardy and starring Tessa Famiga, Charlotte Hope, Bonnie Aarons, and others, the film is part of the sequel to The Conjuring.
The story takes place in 1952, when a nun in a Romanian monastery is attacked by unknown forces, and the Vatican sends Priest Burke, as well as a nun Irene who has opened her eyes since childhood, and a young man she met on the road, Francis (real name Morris), goes to investigate, and after investigation, it is found that one of the nuns is possessed by the demon Valak, and the demon Wallak wants to attack Irene to possess her.
In the end, the trio successfully drive away the demon, but at the end of the film, the demon Wallak is not completely destroyed, but secretly possesses Morris.
The Easter egg in the final film is linked to "The Conjuring" 20 years later. At a seminar at a university, the Warrens in the movie "The Conjuring" play footage of themselves trying to expel the possessed Morris, which is what led the Warrens to investigate Perren's farmhouse.
2. Annabelle 2: Birth (2017): Took place in 1955
Annabelle 2: Birth is one of the spin-off film series of The Conjuring films, and takes place primarily in the United States in 1955.
In the film, a doll maker named Samuel Mullins and his wife, Este Mullins, lose their daughter Annabelle after being hit by a car. Twelve years later, in 1955, a woman named Sister Charlotte and six girls from the orphanage came to the Mullins family. One of the girls, Janice, suffers from polio and sneaks into a room that should be locked and releases the demon "Annabelle".
The demon "Annabelle", possessed by Janice, kills the others, and Sister Charlotte successfully locks Janice and Annabelle (the doll) in a closet. Finally the police came, and they found only the dolls, not Janice.
Janice escaped from a hole in the closet and went to the orphanage in Santa Monica. She called herself Annabelle. After 12 years, she returned to her adoptive parents and murdered them with her boyfriend, who became part of the Satanic cult. This also takes over the scene at the beginning of the first annabelle.
3. Annabelle (2014): 1967
The story in the film takes place in Santa Monica, California, in 1967, where doctor John Form gives his wife Mia a doll, and the doll happens to be the future Annabelle (doll). That same night, they wake up to hear that next-door neighbor Higgins has been murdered by her adopted daughter Annabelle (aka Janice) and her boyfriend.
Mia is stabbed, and Janice holds the doll before she dies, and her blood flows into Annabelle (the doll), so the demon returns to the doll.
Beginning at that time, Mia finds the dolls by their side, strange paranormal phenomena occur frequently, and Mia tries to ask for help from Father Perez, but the doll attacks him.
At the end of the movie, the demon wants to get Mia's soul, and a mother named Evelyn takes the place of Mia and jumps out of the window, and the demon and the doll disappear together. Later, Annabelle, the doll, was bought by a mother as a gift for her daughter Debbie, which is the same person as the beginning of the movie "The Conjuring".
4. The Conjuring (2013): Took place in 1971
This movie is also the highest reputation of the series so far, belonging to the founder of the "Conjuring" universe, the plot is super tense and exciting, the whole process of high energy and no urine point, in one fell swoop won the North American box office champion. The film was directed by Wen Ziren and starred Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lily Taylor and others. The story revolves around the Warrens exorcism.
In the film, a couple named Roger and Carolyn Perlen move to a farmhouse in Rhode Island with their five daughters and their dog Sandy. The children played a game of hide-and-seek, and the next morning, a child was found dead. After that, strange supernatural things began to happen. The clock stops at 3:07 a.m. every night. Birds flew into windows and died from impacts.
Caroline visited the Warrens at a seminar at the university and asked for help. The Warrens agreed to help, and an investigation later revealed that the former owner of the land was a witch who had killed a week-old child and offered it to the devil. At 3:07 a.m. in 1863, she committed suicide in a tree at home. Before that, she cursed anyone who tried to seize her land, which has since sparked multiple murders and suicides.
Subsequently, Caroline is possessed by a demon, and Ed Warren performs an exorcism, and eventually, through the warrens' efforts, they succeed in freeing Caroline from the witch's curse.
5. Annabelle: Coming Home (2019): Took place in 1972
The film opens with the end of Annabelle, where the Warrens take Annabelle from Debbie and leave it in the house, with the doll locked in a cabinet in the basement room.
The Warrens entrusted their daughter Judy to a nanny named Mary as they investigated another case. Mary and her friend Daniela came to the heritage room and touched everything.
Daniela is very sad after losing her father and wants to communicate with his father, and during her visit to the heritage room, she accidentally opens Annabelle's cabinet, annabelle releases other souls and demons, etc.
But in the end, thanks to the efforts of Judy, Mary, and Daniela, they finally put the doll back in the cupboard, and everything returned to normal.
6. The Curse of the Weeping Woman (2019): Took place in 1973
The film is linked to the priest in Annabelle, which begins in Mexico in 1673. The little boy gave his mother a necklace, and the brother went out for a walk, and when he came back, he saw the mother cursed by the demon "Weeping Woman" La Lolona, who drowned his brother in the river, and the brother tried to escape, but the mother caught him and drowned him.
The story then goes to 300 years later, in 1973, when Anna, a los Angeles case worker, told Anna that her mother had locked them in a room for their safety, and Anna had taken them to child protection agencies. Later they were found drowning in a creek, and their mother, Patricia, found and blamed Anna.
Patricia later began praying that La Lorona would take Anna's child and return her son to her. But then she turned to Father Perez, who was fighting Annabelle, for help, who sent Anna to a former priest named Raphael. They fight the "Weeping Woman", and finally Anna stabs La Lolona in the chest with a cross, and eventually La Lorona is destroyed.
7. The Conjuring 2 (2016): Took place in 1977
Still directed by Wen Ziren and starring the Warrens, both Patrick Wilson and Vera Famiga return, the film takes place in London and is based on the true case of the "Enfield prank".
The story takes place in 1976, when the Warrens are investigating the "Armitivel House", and Laurie foresees that the demon Wallak, disguised as a nun, wants to kill Ed. A year later, in 1977, the Haggisons were living in the same place in London's Enfield district of England and were experiencing something very similar to the Amitivel House.
Later, the Warrens enter the Hajjson House to investigate, and find that the root of everything is the demon nun Valak, that is, the demon in the movie "The Nun", and finally the demon Valak is defeated by Laurie and sent back to hell.
In the end, the Warrens placed the diorama from the previous murder house incident near the Annabelle doll locked in a glass cabinet and the octagonal music box from the first part of The Conjuring.
8. The Conjuring 3: The Strange House (2021): Set in 1981
After five years of preparation and production, the third installment of the Conjuring 3 series is released today. Vera Famiga and Patrick Wilson return to play Laurie and Ed Warren, but in this one, Michael Chavez, director of The Crying Woman's Curse, succeeded Wen Ziren, the director of the first two films.
The Conjuring 3 is still based on a true story, and unlike the previous two Conjuring, the film revolves around a murder story planned by a demon. Set in 1981, the film begins with 8-year-old David being possessed by a demon and the Warrens being asked to exorcise him.
During a scuffle, David stabbed his father in the thigh with broken glass, Ed Warren also fainted from a heart attack, and David's sister Debbie's boyfriend, Arne Johnson, asked the demon to "take him away", after which the demon left the little boy and took possession of Arne's body.
Possessed by demons, Arn's personality becomes eccentric and produces some hallucinations. During a hallucination, Arne accidentally killed his roommate Bruno with a knife, so the 19-year-old Arne was charged with murder, however, Arne testified that he was possessed by a demon during the murder. The Warrens learned of the incident and were ready to help Arne, hoping to drop the charges against Arne.
Five months ago, David's family had just moved into the house. David was playing in a waterbed room, but felt a mysterious monster in the waterbed, and that was the first time he felt the presence of a demon.
Together, Ed and Laurie Warren begin to investigate the demons, and they find the mysterious wizard totem in the cellar under the former waterbed, which satanists used to curse others in their rituals, a curse that was passed from David to Arne.
The Warrens visit the priest Castner, who appears in the Annabelle series, and say that the Satanists who make wizarding totems are complicated things to do, but the Warrens eventually discover that the Satanists are run in Castner's house.
The Warrens follow the clues to the forest, but Laurie is controlled by the mysterious power in the forest, falls into hallucinations, begins to lose his way, and finally almost falls off a cliff.
The Satanic knew that Ed and Laurie were hunting him down. Therefore, his ultimate goal is to possess Ed and then kill Laurie. The curse requires three more victims to complete, and if the altar from which the totem comes is destroyed, the curse can be broken.
Eventually, the Warrens discover that the Satanic mystic is the daughter that Castner secretly raised in the church. Horrificly, his daughter tries to control Ed to kill Laurie, and also controls Arne, nearly causing him to commit suicide in prison.
Laurie approached Kastner and asked him why he had been hiding it, when his daughter followed. Castner told Laurie to leave quickly, but was eventually killed by his own daughter.
On the prison side, Arn, who is possessed by the demon, is out of control, and the priest next to him reads the Bible to exorcise him, but the demon makes Arne use glass to hurt himself, and is finally stopped by his girlfriend Debbie.
On the other hand, Ed is controlled by the mystics, who try to exploit the weakness of the relationship between the Warrens and control Ed to hurt Laurie.
However, the Warrens' love for each other was too strong, and eventually became a "weapon" against the curse of the mystics, lifting the curse. Because mystics who sell their souls to demons are forced to keep their promises and become victims.
In the end, the Warrens destroyed the altar together, saving themselves and Ann.
At the end of the film, Ed Warren places the cups from the altar in their heritage room, which also houses paintings by the demon nun Valak and Annabelle dolls.
At the end of the film, Arne is still convicted of murder, but because he is possessed by a demon, he only needs to serve a five-year sentence, which is also a relatively happy ending for him.
After watching "The Conjuring 3", which part of the "Conjuring" series do you like?