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. The MovieWebreview of the film by Ryan Scott doesn’t go into too much detail about the shared relationship.Warning! Contains major spoilers for The Nun, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and all Conjuring movies! In Annaballe, Perez was attacked and wound up in the hospital so it’s no surprise he begins his time in The Curse of La Llorona reluctant for another battle against the supernatural. If you recall, in Annabelle, Father Perez was the one who told the Form family about the way demonic entities can sometimes attach themselves to inanimate objects and he has a direct line to the Warren family. Pictured above is Tony Amendola, he played Father Perez in Annabelle and according to IMDb, he returns in this film, disillusioned after what he experienced with the Annabelle doll ( Annabelletook place in the late 1960’s and The Curse of La Llorona is a follow-up to it, taking place in the 1970’s) to aide Linda Cardellini’s character, Anna, in saving her family from the “weeping woman” spirit known as La Llorona. (L-R) TONY AMENDOLA as Father Perez and LINDA CARDELLINI as Anna in New Line Cinema’s horror film “THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA,” a Warner Bros. While the marketing for The Curse of La Lloronahas played coy on its relationship to The Conjuring, neglecting to say outright if the film was related or not outside of the production similarities, there were other hints and tidbits about the connection. Ryan Scott from MovieWeb confirmed as such in his review of the film.