It also shows that the Warrens initially encounter Valak much earlier than they realize.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 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 (and really plays into the “Marquis of Snakes” namesake).Īfter it looks like Sister Irene and company have defeated Valak, The Nun not only shows that they were unsuccessful, but the film then jumps 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 all the way back to the Dark Ages as the Duke of St. The film depicts what is ostensibly the birth of the first evil that initiates all of the series’ supernatural trouble in the first place. The Nun digs into the individual who is responsible for summoning not only Valak into the world, but demons in general. The film even powerfully opens on a sizzle reel of Valak’s damage, complete with Lorraine Warren’s foreboding voiceover, taken from The Conjuring 2. Carta, people begin to suspect that dark powers of Valak are involved.
When a nun commits suicide at the Abbey of St. Wan and the film’s director, Corin Hardy, seem to have designed the film to be an “origin of evil” type of story, which explores the genesis of The Conjuring’s big baddie and ultimate evil, Valak. The Nun takes place in Romania in 1952 and at this point is the earliest chapter in The Conjuring universe.
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It’s the most contemporary of the series yet and while it is a standalone it does have tie-ins to the Annabelle films. The Conjuring universe has just added the latest chapter to their growing saga with The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It which is part of the main Conjuring canon, centered around a case pulled from Ed and Lorraine Warren’s file. It’s no coincidence that Wan has had a hand in every one of The Conjuring universe’s scripts in some capacity too.
You don’t need to be aware of these touches of continuity to enjoy the films, but their presence shows how important this universe (and its timeline) is to James Wan and the respective filmmakers. What’s fun about all of these spin-offs and side stories is that they intentionally feature tiny epilogues or moments that feed into other films in the franchise. The Conjuring’s Annabelle, Valak, the Nun, and the Crooked Man are no Frankenstein’s Monster or Dracula, but the mission is the same: scaring as many people as possible. Comics have been telling a sprawling, interconnected story since their inception, while the first connected film universe ever, the Universal Monsters, was a horror franchise.
It’s kind of perfect that the only two successful major shared cinematic universes out there are superheroes and horror. Warning! Contains major spoilers for The Nun, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and all Conjuring movies!
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