The Conjuring Universe - Watch Order: Release Order
The Conjuring Universe is a supernatural horror franchise centered around paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, expanding beyond their cases to explore the origins and connections of various haunted objects and malevolent entities across decades of supernatural terror.
This viewing order allows you to experience the franchise as audiences did, with mysteries and connections gradually revealed through sequels and prequels. The interconnected web spans from the 1940s to the 1980s, creating rich layers of mythology that connect intimate Warren case files with standalone horror stories, offering a complete journey through one of horror's most successful shared universes.

The Conjuring
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

Annabelle: Creation
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

The Nun
A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.

Annabelle Comes Home
Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.
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