The basis of the Conjuring series is Conjuring 1 and Conjuring 2. Both films are presented on the screen in the form of "Exorcism Records of Husband and Wife". Husband Warren is an exorcist, and his wife Rowling is a psychic. They are truly a match made in heaven. The wife can see what ordinary people can't see, and the husband can do what ordinary people can't.
"God brought us together for a deep purpose, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't for us to write a book together." This is what Rowling said to her husband Warren in The Conjuring.
The reason for choosing this way is because The Conjuring series is based on the real exorcism of Eddard and Laurie. Yes, you heard that right, it is indeed based on true events. Not only that, the "weird house" in the film is the house where Annabelle's dolls are kept. The house where the priest comes to bless once a week is also real. It is in Connecticut, USA. 's home.
Real supernatural events, real ghosts, real exorcists, and even the recordings in the film are real. Coupled with the form of "Exorcism Records of Husband and Wife", it has established that "The Conjuring Series" cannot be used in horror films. Shaking position.
In 2013, "The Conjuring" was released, and the film laid the foundation of "The Conjuring Universe" from the very beginning:
1. The ghost baby is just a tool, and the evil spirits work by possessing the ghost baby. Why not burn the ghost baby, because if you burn one ghost baby, the evil spirit will find another ghost baby, it is better to "seal the evil spirit in a bottle".
From this scene, we can infer the "spiritual view" of the conjuring universe.
(1) The evil spirit has no entity, but an evil force.
(2) The evil spirits that people see are actually not the body of the evil spirits, but the illusions they see under the influence of the evil spirits. Everyone sees it differently.
(3) Once the evil spirit chooses a tool of possession, whether it is a ghost or a person, it will never change the object easily until it is possessed or destroyed. Rather than saying that, it is more difficult to say that the power of evil spirits is difficult to penetrate into people and things among humans, that is, it is difficult to match. Once paired, if you disconnect and find new objects, it will be even more difficult.
Therefore, once you are contaminated with evil spirits, they will haunt you one by one, just like stepping on chewing gum. There is no point in moving unless you "repel them".
Why do you say that?
In "The Conjuring", the exorcist "Warren" was interviewed by a black reporter at the "Spiritual Museum" in his basement when he was asked "why not burn these things", he said "Annabelle is not an evil spirit, a A powerful demon attaches itself to the doll, and burning it is only equivalent to burning its skin, or it is better to seal the demon in a bottle."
2. The ultimate goal of the evil spirit is to "possess itself", which means that its ultimate goal is a certain person, or a certain group of people. To toss this person or this group of people to death is the purpose of the evil spirits. As for whether it is to become stronger or out of personal hobbies, only the evil spirits know.
When the Warrens were lecturing to students at the university, they mentioned that the evil spirits used a "three-step" routine:
Appear
The sudden footsteps, the voices, and the feeling that someone else is there. It will soon develop into a second stage...
harassment
A rancid smell is a sign of demonic activity.
The door slams three times by itself, which sometimes means disrespect to the three saints, "Father," "Son," and "Holy Spirit."
Victims are generally those with weak wills who are easily influenced by the outside world, intimidating the victim and causing the victim's will to collapse. When the victim is most vulnerable, it develops to the final stage, the third stage...
possessed
As for the consequences of being possessed, viewers who have watched "The Conjuring" must know very well that both the possessed person and the people around them will be affected. As small as a family, the Perron family in The Conjuring. "The Ghost Nun" is as big as a monastery, or even the village where the monastery is located.
There is something wrong with the old house of the Perron family in The Conjuring. The problem lies in the previous home.
As well as the previous home, the man's name is Jason Yuman, who married a woman named "Basshiba", a relative of Mary Tom Estelle who was accused of witchcraft in Salem One of them was sentenced to death by hanging.
Bashiba sacrificed his 7-day-old son by the fireplace. Before the police arrived, he was afraid to go to the tree in the open space at the gate, expressing his worship of Satan, and cursing everyone who tried to take her land. man, and then hanged himself.
This woman can really kill, poisonous, really poisonous, and cruel enough to kill her own youngest son and then commit suicide. Suicide is not enough, and she will curse everyone on this land in the future.
After the 200-acre farm was sold in pieces, strange things began to happen, disappearances, drownings, suicides, etc.
So, needless to say, the evil force at work in the Peren family is undoubtedly the Bashiba. In the end, with the joint efforts of the Peren family and the Warren team, the Peren family was saved and the Bashiba and the Warrens were defeated. her curse.
2014 Annabelle (Spinoff Movie)
The story is still based on a family. The couple often go to church to pray. It can be said that they are very devout believers of God. This can be regarded as a kind of foreshadowing. Compared with the Soul Conjuring series, the ghost baby Annabelle can be said to be quite restrained. In terms of face, the believers of God are treated differently and must be treated differently.
The victims this time were a newlywed couple. The Warrens did not participate in the shooting of the Annabelle series. There were only two people who helped the newlyweds in the film, one was a priest, and the other was a black eldest sister.
The film still follows the evil spirit's "three-step" routine: appearance, harassment, and possession.
The house is haunted every day, the ghost baby will move by herself, and jump up and down in the house to do things restlessly. The key is that you can't lose it, she will come back automatically if she loses it, and she will automatically chase after moving house, bit GPS is also accurate and efficient.
When the priest came over, he saw that there was a powerful evil spirit possessed by the ghost baby. He proposed to bring the ghost baby into the church to suppress it, but he was "pulled" out by the evil spirit before he entered the church. Note that there is a controversy here. Some people think that the priest was pushed out by a mysterious force in the church. The author disagrees. Let’s analyze: 1. If the so-called mysterious force is from the side of the old man, the Bible According to the teachings of the clergy, the clergy are sheltered, how could the Father of God throw the priest and bleed? invalid. 2. If the so-called mysterious power is on the side of the devil, and the priest is about to step into God's territory, if it is pushing, it means that the power of the devil has invaded the church, then this is interesting, is the devil more powerful than God? Great, but also not established.
I have watched the footage of the priest flying up more than a dozen times, and I can see that when the priest was shot, he was actually "a step away" from the church. Just this step away, the priest is actually still on the site of the ghost baby and the evil spirit behind it, not on the site of God. As for the ghost of the cultist under the steps, the author thinks it is a comparison: pure ghosts have limited abilities, and even if they are controlled by evil spirits, they can only move outside a certain range of the church (under the steps), and are not qualified to step into the church at all. within a certain range. But the evil spirit possessed by the ghost baby is different. Its evil power has been able to drag out the priest who is one step away from God. It is a kind of "show" by Wen Dao for the "most evil" Annabelle doll, showing its ability, evil enough to dare to make a moth under the eyes of God.
The intention of this scene, I think, is the same as that of the newlyweds who chose the devout believers who often go to church to pray.
From the action alone, it is impossible to tell whether it is pushing or pulling, but what is basically certain is that this is the evil spirit behind the ghost baby. In the real incident, the priest was in a car accident and escaped from the car accident, so it is certain that the ghost is the one who caused the accident. As for why the director in the film adapted the scene where the priest was shot at the door of the church, I think it has something to do with the shooting style of "Director Wen". Unpredictable.
This editing method is similar to that of the controversial "Jumping God" in the Korean horror movie "The Cry".
The evil spirit behind the ghost baby did not show up from beginning to end. The exorcist couple was in the east, and they did not travel in time, so they did not appear in this movie.
In the end, the black eldest sister sacrificed herself to save others, jumped out of the window with a ghost baby in her arms, and gave her pure soul.
Annabelle finally let the newlyweds go and turned to the next victim.
2016 The Conjuring 2
"The Conjuring 2" begins with a psychic ritual in a family where Rowling uses her yin and yang eyes to see a tragic family annihilation in a haunted house. A young boy guides her to the basement, where Rowling sees a hideous ghost nun, the first time the ghost nun has appeared in the Conjuring movies.
The ghost nun's second appearance is 44 minutes after the film, appearing in Warren's house, floating down the hallway, and then seduces Rowling into Ed's studio, where she shows Rowling that it wants to possess The object is actually Ed. This 4-minute-long scene of the ghost nun's appearance can be called a model of "warm horror". Black and white, light and dark, virtual and real, quiet and other shooting techniques are intertwined. The virtual shadow drifts, the shadow moves, the lights go out, and the doors and windows are locked for no reason. , through the daily and humanized horror impressions of various senses, the atmosphere before the breath-holding point is brought to the extreme, and it makes you hold your breath little by little. Uncontrollably screamed.
The little boy is playing "turn the light" with his sister. In the turn of the light, there is a 2D image of a bony hunchback man holding a red umbrella and wearing a dark red dress. This is also the first time the image of the hunchback man appeared in the Soul Conjuring series.
At the 57th minute of the film, the little boy saw the three-dimensional version of the hunchback, tall and evil. After only ten seconds, the little boy ran away in fright.
At 1 hour and 59 minutes into the film, the image of the hunchback man appeared for the third time, this time it showed its true colors, an ugly image with a red top hat, a mouth grinned to the bottom of the ears, and a yellow-green face.
It is said that the hunchback is going to make an independent movie, but the background of the hunchback is not introduced in The Conjuring 2, only a children's song is given: "Once upon a time there was a hunchback, walking on a winding road, he found a crooked six Penny, on a crooked staircase, she bought a crooked cat, the kitten caught a crooked mouse, and they all lived in a crooked cottage."
Therefore, the curiosity about the independent film "The Hunchback" can only be guessed from this children's song.
According to the setting of "Ghost Nun", the ghost nun appeared in the monastery. The author "stands up and seals the devil" boldly guesses that the movie scene of "The Hunchback" is likely to be set in an old, ugly, eerie, and distorted castle. , everything in the castle is distorted, including human actions and language.
The ghost of the hunchback, the old man is just a pretense, he is just enslaved, enslaved by a demon, used as a blindfold to block the sight of the exorcist, and is powerful enough to influence and manipulate Janet.
The hint given by the ghost of the old man is: Only by knowing the name of this demon can you have the power to defeat the demon.
In the final battle, Rowling finally found the demon's name "Valak", she uttered the name of Varak, and defeated the demon with the power given to her by God.
2017 Annabelle 2: Birth (Spinoff Movie)
Since it is named Birth, it must be about how the ghost baby Annabelle was born, or how she became so evil.
Uncle Beard is an artisan who makes dolls and has a lovely daughter named Annabelle. Annabelle was hit and killed in an accidental car accident. The grief-stricken Uncle Beard and his wife went against the will of God, and prayed blasphemous prayers to the ghost/Satan/Devil in order to see their daughter Annabelle again.
The demon's power is weak at the beginning - the emergence stage.
Made Annabelle's voice and transformed into Annabelle's image to confuse Uncle Beard and his wife. After they were hooked, the demon began to dig a hole - asking for permission to enter the ghost's body, so that it could exist for a long time.
In order to see his daughter often and hear her familiar voice, the bewitched uncle and his wife readily agreed - jumping into a fire pit.
Later, Uncle Beard and his wife discovered the true face of the demon, a dark, ugly, skinless demon that looked extremely evil. This image is actually very similar to the image played by "Sister Widow" Scarlett Johansson in the movie "Skin". The more similar place is that Annabelle's "Black Devil" bewitches people to sacrifice their souls to it, while in "Skin" The "black devil" lured people into its "black territory", and then devoured each other completely.
The ghost baby is getting stronger and stronger, hurting Uncle Beard's wife and taking her soul. Uncle Beard had to ask people from the church to help and seal the ghost baby.
The guilt-ridden Uncle Beard and his wife took in several orphans in order to atone for their sins.
The rest of the plot is that under the bewitchment of Annabelle, the girls in the orphanage were harassed, and at first glance, a girl was finally possessed.
The girl who was possessed at the end of the film did not die, but was adopted. After 12 years, she became a believer of a cult organization and became a puppet of the devil. After killing her adoptive parents, she was killed by the ghost baby Annabelle. After 12 years, her soul taken back by the devil.
Continue the plot from the beginning of the Annabelle 1 movie.
2018 The Nuns (Spinoff Movie)
"The Ghost Nun" is about the birth of the ghost nun.
The story takes place in a remote church.
Before it became a church, it was a noble castle, and the owner of the castle was crazy about the magic of summoning demons.
In the end, he really succeeded. He successfully opened the gate of hell and summoned the devil.
But in the middle of the ceremony, the Pope's crusaders arrived, killed the nobles, and sealed the gates of hell with the blood of the holy Jesus.
Crusaders occupied the castle and established a monastery here.
The nuns prayed in shifts around the clock, and finally suppressed the demons at the gates of hell.
But one day the monastery was bombed, destroying the integrity of the seal, the gates of hell were destroyed, and the demons found a way to break the seal.
It's still the same old "Conjuring" series: appearance, harassment, possession.
All the nuns in the convent died, and none survived.
The matter reached the Vatican, which called in an experienced priest/exorcist, a nun-to-be born with yin-yang eyes, and a local "peasant brother" to investigate the truth.
When the trio came to the monastery, they found that it was very evil, and they, like the nuns who died, suffered the complete trilogy: appearance, harassment, and possession.
Although the last three people looked like they had sealed the demons and escaped from the monastery, everyone was actually possessed by the demons.
Especially the peasant brother, who has the devil's "inverted cross" branded on his back.
Others include: The Conjuring 3, The Hunchback (in a spin-off movie)
The classic linear plot sequence of "The Conjuring Universe" is: "The Nun" - "Annabelle 2" - "Annabelle" - "The Conjuring" - "The Conjuring 2" - "The Conjuring 3"
We can see that the Conjuring Universe composed of "The Conjuring Series" follows the settings at the beginning of this article at every step, and the plot is strictly in the order of the trilogy of "appearance", "harassment" and "possession". The plot is extremely monotonous, but Director Wen's filming is good-looking, terrifying, and scary. What can you do about this?
There is no way.
I think the key lies in Director Wen's directing skills. The elements of horror films such as sound, color, shape, and meaning are played to perfection under Director Wen.
Just like the series "Agent Bean", the focus is on Mr. Bean's superb performance, not to mention Agent Bean, even "Daddy Bean", "The Bean Boxer" and "The Bean Next Door" audience will buy it. After Master Bie Lin, a comedy master who successfully amused audiences all over the world, his stage name can be directly equated with "box office" and "comedy".
"The Conjuring Series" also has the same effect in Director Wen. With classics such as "Chainsaw" and "Latent" ahead, James Wen's IP can basically be classified with "classic horror" and "Wen's classic horror" equal sign.
The author thinks that as long as the "Conjuring Series" does not change the director, it can continue to be pursued one by one.
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