The next movie was a prequel to that, and Annabelle: Creation shows the origin story of how the girl who would be renamed Annabelle became possessed by a demon in the first place. Annabelle shows how the doll became haunted in the late '60s by the spirit of a young woman named Annabelle Higgins, who joined a demonic cult in the late '60s and killed her adoptive parents. The terrifying doll is back in full force and this likely won't be the last time you see her.Īnnabelle Comes Home picks up soon after The Conjuring's events, but the preceding Annabelle movies serve as prequels to this new addition. You would've thought that Ed and Lorraine, being the professionals that they are, would have confiscated Annabelle in order to prevent future terror, but the couple kept the doll locked in their artifacts room, where Annabelle Comes Home shows it coming back to life to torture the Warren's daughter Judy (Mckenna Grace).
The Warrens first came into contact with Annabelle in 2013's The Conjuring when the demonologists investigated certain paranormal hauntings. The Annabelle narrative has come a long way since the first standalone story about the possessed doll, but Annabelle Comes Home brings the doll back to Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga). Horror fans have seen this doll terrorize in her own standalone movies before, in 2014's Annabelle and 2017's Annabelle Creation, but will Annabelle Comes Home get a sequel as well? If you can't get enough of this creepy, pig-tailed demon, you may be in luck. (You can count Toy Story 4's Gabby Gabby and her ventriloquist dummies in this category too.) But Annabelle Comes Home may be the scariest of the bunch, because it's part of the ongoing and notoriously horrifying Conjuring universe.
Between the new Child's Play, out June 21, and Annabelle Comes Home releasing June 25, it seems as though we might be living through the summer of vengeful dolls.