Spoilers for "The Conjuring: Last Rites" follow.
Ever since the memorable opening of 2013's "The Conjuring," in which the haunted doll Annabelle made such an impression, the Conjuring Universe has struggled to incorporate Annabelle's runaway success with varying results. As originally intended, the Annabelle opening was a way of introducing Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) before they embarked on the film's main case of the Perron family haunting. Yet the story of the possessed doll — and especially its spooky design for the movie, which is markedly different from the real-life Raggedy Ann doll — captured so much attention that not only did Annabelle become a staple in the future "Conjuring" movies , but she received three spin-off films of her own .
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