History NightmareFuel / TheConjuring

** Something that isn't really called attention to and most people probably missed due to its subtlety: when Ed comes home to find his daughter claiming to have seen someone with Annabelle, he goes to check on her case, and finds her no different than before. Except not. See the page picture? Those aren't her eyes.

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* "I command you to reveal yourself!". unfortunately, Bathsheba ''does as instructed''.

* The scene in the ending where the music box plays by itself. audience may expect a jumpscare by the end of the movie. There was none. NothingIsScarier indeed.
* There's something very unnerving aboyt when Lorraine flashbacks to when she met the family, and we see a shadowy figure behind them the family.
* "I command you to reveal yourself!". unfortantely, Bathsheba ''does as instructed''.

* "I command you to reveal yourself!". Bathsheba unfortantely ''does as instructed''.

** We're introduced to her tormenting two young women, trashing rooms they keep her in, scribbling notes in red crayon ("Miss me?"), and, pounding on the door late at night after they throw her out. Everything she does is off-camera; we never see her move during her introduction. She would just be sitting there, clutching a red crayon in her tiny hand, watching, waiting to possess her victims. This is somehow much more frightening than if we saw her scurrying around after people.
** When the demonic forces penetrate the Warren household, they release Annabelle and immediately try to kill Judy Warren. Not frighten her, not possess her; flat-out murder a little girl by slamming a rocking chair into her hard enough to shatter the chair. Luckily Judy's parents get her out in time. This moment is also notable for Annabelle actually moving—her head turns to face Judy.

* The whole exorcism. Carolyn tied to a chair and covered with a white sheet, thrashing, groaning and vomiting blood, in that CreepyBasement is a very nightmarish image. Then the sheet tears and it's Bathsheba's snarling face that peers out.

* The first time we see Bathsheba - on top of the wardrobe, with a SlasherSmile before pouncing on Andrea.

* When Carolyn is looking for April while playing hide and clap, it is obvious that ''something'' later we learned that it's just the ghost boy Rory would use the clapping to mess with Carolyn. The pair of hands coming out of the wardrobe during the day are out of focus, so not that creepy, but inside a darkened basement ... they're bound to scare quite a few people.

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** She's getting her own movie as a prequel to ''The Conjuring''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHaoIdqfwzE&feature=trueview-instream The trailer]].

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!As this is a Nightmare Fuel page, spoilers ''will'' be left unmarked.
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[[caption-width-right:250:Miss me?]]

* [[CreepyDoll Annabelle]] and pretty much everything about her. Even without knowing the story behind her, it's hard not to get the shivers while looking at her.
** We're introduced to her tormenting two young women, trashing rooms they keep her in, scribbling notes in red crayon ("Miss me?"), and, pounding on the door late at night after they throw her out. Everything she does is off-camera; we never see her move during her introduction. She would just be sitting there, clutching a red crayon in her tiny hand, watching, waiting to possess her victims. This is somehow much more frightening than if we saw her scurrying around after people.
** When the demonic forces penetrate the Warren household, they release Annabelle and immediately try to kill Judy Warren. Not frighten her, not possess her; flat-out murder a little girl by slamming a rocking chair into her hard enough to shatter the chair. Luckily Judy's parents get her out in time. This moment is also notable for Annabelle actually moving—her head turns to face Judy.
** The amazing thing about Annabelle is that she could be cut from the film and it would require only minor adjustments. Yet she's easily one of the most memorable features in it.
** Something that isn't really called attention to and most people probably missed due to its subtlety: when Ed comes home to find his daughter claiming to have seen someone with Annabelle, he goes to check on her case, and finds her no different than before. Except not. See the page picture? Those aren't her eyes.
** She's getting her own movie as a prequel to ''The Conjuring''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHaoIdqfwzE&feature=trueview-instream The trailer]].
* The scene where one of the girls first sees the demon. "It's standing right behind you!" The worst part is that nobody else, including the audience, can see it. NothingIsScarier at its finest.
* The whole exorcism. Carolyn tied to a chair and covered with a white sheet, thrashing, groaning and vomiting blood, in that CreepyBasement is a very nightmarish image. Then the sheet tears and it's Bathsheba's snarling face that peers out.
** At one point during the exorcism, a shotgun seems to come alive and fires at Ed.
* April finding Sadie the family dog's corpse outside in broad daylight.
* Even though we don't see whatever the demon in the farmer showed Lorraine, her switch from being very in-control (considering the situation) to collapsing while screaming in horror, simply from being looked at, is terrifying. Another example of NothingIsScarier.
** Worse still: later entries in the series imply that this demon was [[BigBad Valak.]]
* The voices heard on the recording at the Warrens' house.
* '''The Rocking Chair'''.
* The first time we see Bathsheba - on top of the wardrobe, with a SlasherSmile before pouncing on Andrea.
* The jump scare involving the maid. "LOOK WHAT SHE MADE ME DO!"
* The scene where Lorraine is picking up the laundry from the hanging line, and a strong wind passes by. A bed sheet is blown off of the hanging line and it stays there as the wind blows, displaying a person's silhouette, but when the sheet blows off, nobody is standing there... until the bed sheet blows up against a second story window, and as it falls, there now stands that previously invisible silhouette.
* When Carolyn is looking for April while playing hide and clap, it is obvious that ''something'' later we learned that it's just the ghost boy Rory would use the clapping to mess with Carolyn. The pair of hands coming out of the wardrobe during the day are out of focus, so not that creepy, but inside a darkened basement ... they're bound to scare quite a few people.
* The scene where the demon drags Nancy across the room by her hair. At one point, it flings her halfway across the room into a wall.
* Seeing your daughter slowly drifting a few inches underwater in a river, while she's supposed to be miles away.
* The scene in the ending where the music box plays by itself. audience may expect a jumpscare by the end of the movie. There was none. NothingIsScarier indeed.
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* The scene in the ending where the music box plays by itself. audience may expect a jumpscare by the end of the movie. There was none. NothingIsScarier indeed.

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* The scene in the ending where the music box plays by itself. audience may expect a jumpscare by the end of the movie. There was none. NothingIsScarier indeed.
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[[folder:''The Conjuring 2'']]
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* The film is filled to the brim with AdultFear. The main setting of the Enfield haunting is a modest home inhabited by an impoverished single mother who has to raise her four young children by herself because her ex-husband has founded another family elsewhere. She doesn't have money to fix a broken pipe which floods the entire basement, a potential drowning hazard for the smaller children. Because of the stress she has to face, Peggy began to smoke; it is implied that this habit has a hand in almost causing Janet to also take up the cigars, which is not much better. Plus, one of her children has a stutter that brands him a laughing stock at school. Does Peggy require anymore stress put on her? [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Why, yes]], [[FromBadToWorse the haunting will do]].
* Valak, the aptly named "Demon Nun". She takes NunsAreSpooky to [[UpToEleven the power of eleven]].
** For those too afraid to see her, she has bluish-white skin, a cadaver makeup, and yellow eyes. As a nun, she wears an all-black habit. EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette much? Just imagine seeing someone like ''her''
*** And then her. . . .teeth
** There's the fact that she's actually a demon, underlined. She's unlike Bathsheba or Bill Wilkins, who are both ghosts A.K.A. humans who died and become restless spirits. A ''demon''. A being not from this world. And for this reason, she can't be vanquished completely.
** Her appearance in the Warrens' home has her looming ominously at the far corner of a narrow corridor. And the first one to discover her is ''[[AdultFear a young girl]]''. This is a little close to earth for those who have experienced home invasions. Sure, it turns out to be a part of Lorraine's NightmareSequence, but the point still stands.
** She is not just resistant to crosses, she actually makes them her personal toys by flipping them upside down! Imagine telling that to someone who holds holy objects in high regard because they think that they would protect them from undesirable things.
** [[ForTheEvulz She doesn't have any discernible motive for terrorizing humans]]. Is it because Janet used the Ouija board? Is she mad that Ed and Lorraine are banishing evil spirits? Is she interested in Lorraine because of her powers? Why does she have the need to control a lost ghost to do her bidding? Whatever it, is, the movie never reveals it. ParanoiaFuel ensues.
** And then there's the creepiest part about Valak that's more FridgeHorror. Valak is only A demon. Think on what that means. He's only A demon.
* One of the first scares of the movie: When Billy pushes a toy fire truck back into his tent, only to have it come back to him outside his bedroom door. He pushes it back into the tent again, to which it quickly gets pushed back out. Before he or the audience even has time to process what happened, a man's deafening scream comes from the tent, terrifying both Billy and the audience. If we didn't already know this was a Haunted House movie, we'd probably think someone broke into the house, and was hiding in the tent.
** As well as that, earlier in the scene as Billy walks down the hall to get back to his room, he passes the living room, where Bill makes his first appearance sitting in the chair in a blink-or-you'll-miss-it moment, and Billy completely misses it.
* When the TV starts messing up when Janet is trying to watch it, she begins fiddling with it to get the picture back, only to have it turn off completely, revealing an old man sitting in the chair behind her, in the screen's reflection. Just when you think the scene is done, [[JumpScare he suddenly appears behind her and shouts "MY HOUSE!"]].
* You probably didn't think the famous Christmas tune "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" could be creepy, but after this movie, you'll probably never want to hear that song again, Holiday or not.
* Bill Wilkins' fate. As if dying alone in a chair from a brain hemorrhage and becoming a ghost wasn't depressing enough, his spirit becomes enslaved by ''freaking demon'', unable to pass on to the afterlife even though he wants to, tortured and forced himself to torment an innocent family, with virtually no way of asking for help or freeing yourself from the demon's control. A FateWorseThanDeath indeed.
--> '''Bill Wilkins:''' [[WhamLine HELP ME, IT WON'T LET ME GO!!!]]
* The chair. It's just a simple brown chair that sits in the corner of the living room that was bought along with the house. It's only a little creepy at first because Bill Wilkins died while sitting in that chair. But there's one little note in the end that makes it way more ominous than it already was, or really should be. Despite what happened to them Peggy and her family continued to live in the house, all the way up to Peggy's death. And according to the note, Peggy died sitting ''on that same chair.''
* Everything about Valak's "Crooked Man" form. A [[Creator/TimBurton Burtonesque]] nightmare that first emerges in a manner not unlike the kennel scene from ''Film/TheThing1982'' and proceeds to chase down the youngest Hodgson child while chanting a twisted version of the nursery rhyme it was inspired by.
* The opening at the Amityville house. Especially when Vision!Lorraine acts out shooting each of the victims; they don't actually ''get'' shot, they just [[UncannyValley immediately snap]] to being bloody corpses.
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!As this is a Nightmare Fuel page, spoilers ''will'' be left unmarked.
When the director of ''Film/SawI'' and ''Film/{{Insidious}}'' adapts what two paranormal investigators insist was their most terrifying case, and when other directors follow in his footsteps with spinoffs, NightmareFuel is guaranteed.
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* ''NightmareFuel/{{Annabelle}}''
* ''NightmareFuel/AnnabelleCreation''
* ''NightmareFuel/TheNun''
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[[folder:''The Conjuring'']]

When the director of ''Film/SawI'' and ''Film/{{Insidious}}'' adapts what two paranormal investigators insist was their most terrifying case, NightmareFuel is guaranteed.

The ''Annbabelle'' spin-off series have their own NF pages here:

** We're introduced to her tormenting two young women, trashing rooms they keep her in, scribbling notes in red crayon ("Miss me?"), and, pounding on the door late at night after they throw her out. Everything she does is off-camera; we never see her move during her introduction. She would just be sitting there, clutching a red crayon in her tiny hand, watching, waiting to [[spoiler:possess her victims.]] This is somehow much more frightening than if we saw her scurrying around after people.
** When the demonic forces [[spoiler:penetrate the Warren household, they release Annabelle and immediately try to kill Judy Warren. Not frighten her, not possess her; flat-out murder a little girl by slamming a rocking chair into her hard enough to shatter the chair. Luckily Judy's parents get her out in time. This moment is also notable for Annabelle actually moving—her head turns to face Judy.]]

* The whole exorcism. [[spoiler:Carolyn]] tied to a chair and covered with a white sheet, thrashing, groaning and vomiting blood, in that CreepyBasement is a very nightmarish image. Then the sheet tears and [[spoiler:it's Bathsheba's snarling face that peers out.]]

* [[spoiler:April finding Sadie the family dog's corpse outside in broad daylight.]]

** Worse still: [[spoiler: later entries in the series imply that this demon was [[BigBad Valak.]]]]

* [[spoiler: '''The Rocking Chair'''.]]
* [[spoiler: The first time we see Bathsheba - on top of the wardrobe, with a SlasherSmile before pouncing on Andrea.]]

* When Carolyn is looking for April while playing hide and clap, it is obvious that ''something'' [[spoiler: later we learned that it's just the ghost boy Rory]] would use the clapping to mess with Carolyn. [[spoiler: The pair of hands coming out of the wardrobe during the day are out of focus, so not that creepy, but inside a darkened basement ... they're bound to scare quite a few people.]]

* The scene in the ending where the music box plays by itself. audience may expect a jumpscare by the end of the movie. [[spoiler:There was none. NothingIsScarier]] indeed.

* [[spoiler: Valak]], the aptly named "Demon Nun". She takes NunsAreSpooky to [[UpToEleven the power of eleven]].

** There's the fact that she's actually [[spoiler: a demon]], underlined. She's unlike Bathsheba or Bill Wilkins, who are both ghosts A.K.A. humans who died and become restless spirits. [[spoiler: A ''demon''. A being not from this world.]] And for this reason, [[spoiler: she can't be vanquished completely.]]

** She is not just resistant to [[spoiler: crosses]], she actually [[spoiler: makes them her personal toys by flipping them upside down!]] Imagine telling that to someone who holds [[spoiler: holy objects]] in high regard because they think that they would protect them from undesirable things.
** [[spoiler: [[ForTheEvulz She doesn't have any discernible motive for terrorizing humans]]. Is it because Janet used the Ouija board? Is she mad that Ed and Lorraine are banishing evil spirits? Is she interested in Lorraine because of her powers? Why does she have the need to control a lost ghost to do her bidding? Whatever it, is, the movie never reveals it.]] ParanoiaFuel ensues.
** And then there's the creepiest part about [[spoiler:Valak]] that's more FridgeHorror. [[spoiler:Valak is only A demon. Think on what that means. He's only A demon.]]
* One of the first scares of the movie: When Billy pushes a toy fire truck back into his tent, only to have it come back to him outside his bedroom door. He pushes it back into the tent again, to which it quickly gets pushed back out. Before he or the audience even has time to process what happened, [[spoiler: a man's deafening scream comes from the tent, terrifying both Billy and the audience. If we didn't already know this was a Haunted House movie, we'd probably think someone broke into the house, and was hiding in the tent]].
** As well as that, earlier in the scene as Billy walks down the hall to get back to his room, he passes the living room, [[spoiler: where Bill makes his first appearance sitting in the chair]]in a blink-or-you'll-miss-it moment, and Billy completely misses it.
* When the TV starts messing up when Janet is trying to watch it, she begins fiddling with it to get the picture back, [[spoiler: only to have it turn off completely, revealing an old man sitting in the chair behind her, in the screen's reflection]]. Just when you think the scene is done, [[spoiler: [[JumpScare he suddenly appears behind her and shouts "MY HOUSE!"]]]].

* Bill Wilkins' fate. [[spoiler: As if dying alone in a chair from a brain hemorrhage and becoming a ghost wasn't depressing enough, his spirit becomes enslaved by ''freaking demon'', unable to pass on to the afterlife even though he wants to, tortured and forced himself to torment an innocent family, with virtually no way of asking for help or freeing yourself from the demon's control.]] A FateWorseThanDeath indeed.
--> '''Bill Wilkins:''' [[spoiler: [[WhamLine HELP ME, IT WON'T LET ME GO!!!]] ]]
* The chair. It's just a simple brown chair that sits in the corner of the living room that was bought along with the house. It's only a little creepy at first because [[spoiler: Bill Wilkins died while sitting in that chair.]] But there's one little note in the end that makes it way more ominous than it already was, or really should be. Despite what happened to them [[spoiler: Peggy and her family continued to live in the house, all the way up to Peggy's death. And according to the note, Peggy died sitting ''on that same chair.'']]
* Everything about [[spoiler:Valak's "Crooked Man" form. A [[Creator/TimBurton Burtonesque]] nightmare that first emerges in a manner not unlike the kennel scene from ''Film/TheThing1982'' and proceeds to chase down the youngest Hodgson child while chanting a twisted version of the nursery rhyme it was inspired by.]]

* Everything about [[spoiler:Valak's "Crooked Man" form. A {{Burtonesque}} nightmare that first emerges in a manner not unlike the kennel scene from ''Film/TheThing1982'' and proceeds to chase down the youngest Hodgson child while chanting a twisted version of the nursery rhyme it was inspired by.]]