Line #27 NightmareFuel/TheConjuring


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6	!As this is a Nightmare Fuel page, spoilers ''will'' be left unmarked.
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8	* [[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.
9	** 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.
10	** 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.
11	** 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.
12	** 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 picture linked [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/annabelle_6528.jpg here]]? Those aren't her eyes.
13	* 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.
14	** A earlier scene when the same girl complains about the smell in the bedroom can be very creepy considering the context of the film.
15	* 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.
16	** At one point during the exorcism, a shotgun seems to come alive and fires at Ed.
17	* April finding Sadie the family dog's corpse outside in broad daylight.
18	* 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.
19	** Worse still: later entries in the series imply that this demon was [[BigBad Valak.]]
20	* The voices heard on the recording at the Warrens' house.
21	* '''The Rocking Chair'''.
22	* The first time we see Bathsheba — on top of the wardrobe, with a SlasherSmile before pouncing on Andrea.
23	* The jump scare involving the maid. "LOOK WHAT SHE MADE ME DO!"
24	* 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.
25	* 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.
26	* 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.
27	* Seeing your daughter slowly drifting a few inches underwater in a river, while she's supposed to be miles away.
28	* The scene in the ending where the music box plays by itself. audience may expect a jump scare by the end of the movie. There was none. NothingIsScarier indeed.
29	* There's something very unnerving about Lorraine's flashbacks when she met the family, and we see a shadowy figure behind them the family.
30	* "I command you to reveal yourself!". Unfortunately, Bathsheba ''does as instructed''.

Context NightmareFuel / TheConjuring