
The Conjuring essentially contains a stand-alone Annabelle short film, so it’s no surprise that the evil little doll quickly became a fan favourite. Carta in The Nun, placing Sister Charlotte’s photo in the year 1952.

While these nuns aren’t named, the photo originally appears on the wall of the convent within the Abbey of St. The important thing about this is that an unnamed Valak is also present in the background of the photo as a fellow nun. Janice, one of the orphans, forms an unusual friendship with the possessed doll and the awakened evil spirit is now hungry for a human channel.Īdditionally, at one-point, Sister Charlotte shows off a photo of herself and three other nuns from back when she was in Romania. Samuel Mullins is a doll-maker and after the death of his daughter, the Mullins are so desperate to see their child that they form a pact with a demon (that they believe is their daughter’s spirit) and allow it to possess a doll as a host. Set in 1955, the film follows Samuel and Esther Mullins as they open their home up to Sister Charlotte and six orphan girls, but the film begins with a brief detour in 1943 when the Mullins lose their daughter, Annabelle, in a car accident.Īnnabelle: Creation’s goal is to explain how the possessed doll from The Conjuring came into existence. It also shows that the Warrens initially encounter Valak much earlier than they realise.Įven though Annabelle: Creation came out after both Annabelle and The Conjuring, it’s a prequel to both. The couple’s possession footage gets framed in a new light as the twisted fate of The Nun’s Maurice (“Frenchie”) is revealed. Whether the force that takes control of Daniel is Valak or some other evil, Valak still uses Daniel’s spirit as a means to torture Burke throughout the film.Īfter it looks like Sister Irene and co have defeated Valak, The Nun shows that they were unsuccessful – jumping forward to 1977 during the Warrens’ “three stages of possession” lecture from The Conjuring 2. The Nun also briefly jumps back in time to 1945 to show Father Burke’s first experience with demonic possession. Carta’s ritual to summon Valak gets shown in detail. There’s a flashback that goes back to the Dark Ages as the Duke of St. The Nun overturns the story of the individual responsible for summoning Valak into the world. Carta, people begin to suspect that the dark powers of Valak are involved. When a nun commits suicide at the Abbey of St.


Wan and the film’s director, Corin Hardy, designed the film to be an origin story that explores The Conjuring’s ultimate evil, Valak. The Nuntakes place in Romania in 1952, the earliest chapter in The Conjuring Universe.
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Their investigations in The Conjuring introduced an array of demonic characters, opening the door to an expanded cinematic universe, and resulting in one of the most successful horror movie franchises of all time. Do you remember the first time you came face-to-face with Valak? To celebrate The Nun arriving on Blu-ray ™ and DVD on 14 January, we’re taking a look back through The ConjuringUniverse timeline to prepare you for its imminent release!īeginning with The Conjuring in 2013 from director James Wan, the Conjuring Universe kicks off by exploring the lives of Ed and Lorraine Warren, a real-life couple from Monroe, Connecticut who dedicated their adult lives to investigating supernatural events.
