From The Conjuring to The Nun 2: What is the chronological order of the films in the horror saga?

In 2013, director James Wan shook us up with his horror film Conjuring: The Warren Files. After 10 years and 9 feature films, the Conjuring Cinematic Universe has become the highest-grossing horror film franchise with over $2 billion at the international box office.

The highest-grossing film to date is a spin-off centered around a creepy nun character. Released in 2018, the feature film grossed $365 million on a $22 million budget. Its sequel is currently available in theaters.

Taissa Farmiga reprises her role as Sister Irene alongside Jonas Blockett (Morris), Bonnie Aarons (Nun) and Storm Reid.

Directed by Michael Chavez, who has previously directed The Curse of the White Lady and Conjuring 3, the feature film takes place four years after the events of the 2018 film. In 1956, in southern France, a priest was killed. And evil spreads. And Irene will once again face Valak.

Want to do a ConjuringVerse marathon before you hit theaters for The Nun 2 or just (re)discover movies? Here is a chronological order of the history of the films in the Conjuring Cinematic Universe.

1 – The Nun (2018)

The action takes place in 1952 – Featured in Conjuring 2: The Enfield Case in 2016 and Annabelle 2: The Creation of Evil the following year, the nun is getting her own movie in 2018. Not for children under 12, Corinne Hardy’s feature film is set in 1952 and is therefore the first must-see film in the Conjuring saga.

When we learned about the suicide of a young nun in a Romanian abbey, there was complete surprise in the Catholic Church. The Vatican immediately commissioned a priest with a troubled past (Demian Bichir) and a novice (Taissa Farmiga) to conduct an investigation.

Risking their lives, two clerics must confront an evil force that shakes their faith and threatens to destroy their souls. Soon the abbey is in the grip of a merciless battle between the living and the damned…

This film, which focuses on the demon Valak that the Warren pair fought in Conjuring 2, is the second spin-off in the franchise after the Annabelle doll films. With a budget of $22 million, The Nun grossed $365 million at the international box office, making it the franchise’s highest-grossing film.

2 – ANNABELLE 2 – CREATION OF EVIL (2016)

The action takes place in 1955 – Annabelle 2 – Creation of Evil is an antecedent seductive. In addition to the finale, which connects to the first Annabelle, this part reveals the origin of the creepy doll.

Still traumatized by the tragic death of their young daughter, a doll maker and his wife take in a good sister and the very young residents of a destroyed orphanage.

But this small world soon becomes the target of Annabelle, a demon-possessed creature… Thus, the film opens with a nightmare experienced by young Janice (Talitha Bateman), who kills her parents twelve years later. Annabel.

With a budget of $15 million, David F. Sandberg’s film grossed $306 million worldwide. It is the fourth highest grossing film in the Conjuring universe.

3 – THE NUN 2 (2023)

The action takes place in 1956 – Five years after the first opus, the terrible nun is still in the cinema. Wallack finds Sister Irene in the south of France and goes to the young inhabitants of St. Lucia.

He is a director Michael Chaves, the feature film is the third film to watch if you want to stick to chronological order. The events take place 21 years ago Deception 2The first film in the franchise to feature a demon.

to prepare the decorations Nun 2The director studied photos from many periods. In the press kit, he states:I love that the Conjuring world has moved to Europe. I started by looking at some photos of France and Spain from the 1950s – the first step in my research was to dig up these old photos.

And they came up with some great ideas. To be honest, the newsstand was one of the first, and in the film, it became an iconic setting that instills fear in the audience. I saw some photos of these old kiosks and really liked them. (…)

Thanks to these photos, we travel back in time, and I believe that they will allow you to carry the story into reality. Because I absolutely wanted the film to be as realistic as possible.

In my opinion, a horror movie is never as good as when it does realism. So it was crucial, in my view, that we stay consistent with the country and the time in which the action takes place, and that we incorporate small revealing details. “

With an estimated budget of $30 million, La Nonne 2 was shot on location in Provence. The film is currently in theaters and features a post-credits scene.

4 – ANNABELLE (2014)

The action takes place in 1967 – the first spin-off, but also a precursor to the mother saga, Annabel Makes us get to know the doll better, even though she’s not locked up with the Warrens yet.

John R. In Leonetti’s film, a young couple (Annabelle Wallis and Ward Horton) find a doll in a box when they thought they had gotten rid of it. Then scary paranormal events happen. They eventually escape, and six months later the woman buys a toy for her daughter, which we find at the beginning of the first Conjuring movie…

Like The Conjuring, the film is inspired by one of The Warrens’ files. According to them, the doll was given to a little girl by her mother in the 70s, made of cloth – not porcelain, as in the movies – it moved and sent strange messages. One day he even tried to strangle someone.

To find out the mystery surrounding the doll, the Warrens were sent to the owners, and the latter did not hesitate to get rid of it. Therefore, a pair of exorcists designed a special box and locked it there.

With a budget of $6.5 million, Annabelle grossed $257 million worldwide.

5 – CONJURING – THE WARREN FILES (2013)

The action takes place in 1971 – Two years after Insidious, a Malaysian director James Wan Back with another horror flick, still starring Patrick Wilson: seductive. Accompanying Vera Farmiga, who portrays Lorraine Warren, the actor plays the role of Ed Warren here.

The feature film is inspired by one of the files of a pair of mediums and demonologists who have worked on more than 4,000 cases. In this film, a couple helps a family terrorized by a disturbing presence on their isolated farm.

Forced to confront a demonic entity of immense power, the Warrens find themselves faced with the most terrifying case of their careers…

With a budget of $20 million, the film was a real success, achieving the best opening for an original horror film at the North American box office upon its release. In total, the horror film that would spawn a franchise has taken in $320 million internationally.

6 – ANNABELLE – House of Evil (2019)

The action takes place in 1972 – Annabelle – La Maison du Mal is both a continuation of the first two opuses, but also seductive. The film begins with the Warrens recovering the evil doll, but most of the action takes place a year later and focuses on the night their daughter Judy (Mackenna Grace, replacing Sterling Jerins) experiences a night of being attacked by various demons. .

The most observant may not notice that a featurette by Gary Dauberman (screenwriter of the previous two episodes) is a discreet hint at the beginning. The Curse of the White LadyThrough Patricia Alvarez’s sneaky cameo at the viaduct where she strangled her sons.

With a budget of 30 million dollars, the film collected 231 million at the international box office.

7 – Curse of the White Lady (2019)

action in 1973 – It was released in theaters four months earlier Annabelle – House of Evilaction The Curse of the White Lady It happens a year later, in 1973.

If the opening scene takes place in 1673, when a woman drowns her two children, the story takes us three centuries later, in Los Angeles in 1973.

Ignoring the warnings of a mother suspected of child abuse, a social worker (Linda Cardellini) and her children are drawn into a terrifying supernatural world.

Hoping to escape the White Lady’s deadly fury, their only recourse is a disillusioned priest and his mystical practice aimed at warding off the forces of evil… at the border where fear and faith meet…

The priest here is played by Tony Amendola, who has already played the role of Father Perez Annabelwhich takes place in 1967.

This is the first feature film for Michael Chavez, who would go on to direct Conjuring 3 and The Nun 2. With a budget of 9 million, The Curse of the White Lady reaches the saga’s lowest point yet with a gross of $123 million.

8 – CONJURING 2 – ENFIELD CASE (2016)

The action takes place in 1977 – In The Enfield AffairEd and Lorraine Warren travel to England for a haunted house story that made headlines at the time and spawned a mini-series in 2015.

Janet, an 11-year-old girl, is possessed by a demon. Peggy, Jeanette’s mother, and the little girl’s sisters are terrified. Eddie and Lorraine quickly realize that the matter is serious and, above all, that they are not there by accident. The entity that captured Janet knows them and hates them enough to want to eliminate them.

It is in this film that the nun appears for the first time with a terrible con man, who especially terrorizes Billy (Benjamin Hay). If The Nun is soon allowed to spin-off, the Crooked Man character, brilliantly played by Javier Botet, an actor specializing in the interpretation of monsters, will finally not have a solo film.

9 – Confused 3 – In the hands of the devil (2021)

The action takes place in 1981 – A turn of the decade for Ed and Lorraine Warren, who attack the ’80s with a particularly insidious case of possession and a curse that’s passed from host to host in ways they can’t stop.

A story that shook America at that time. At the court level, especially since the country was faced with the first case where the accused claimed demonic possession as a line of defense. He is a director Michael Chaves, Deception 3 It then asks: What is the significance of the couple’s investigation in the context of the trial?

Abandoning pure horror in favor of legal action, the feature film grossed $206 million worldwide. Note that the film hit our screens on June 9, 2021, less than a month after the theaters reopened after the Covid pandemic.