The Conjuring Movies in Order

Ten have been released. Nine are official entries: The Conjuring (2013), Annabelle (2014), The Conjuring 2 (2016), Annabelle: Creation (2017), The Nun (2018), Annabelle Comes Home (2019), The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021), The Nun II (2023) and The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025). The tenth, The Curse of La Llorona (2019), is set in the same world but was never counted as an official installment. An eleventh, the prequel The Conjuring: First Communion, is dated for September 10, 2027.

In the US as of August 2026 the whole franchise streams on HBO Max, including The Curse of La Llorona. The Conjuring: Last Rites was the last to arrive: digital rental and purchase from October 7, 2025, then its HBO Max streaming debut on November 21, 2025. Every film can also be rented or bought from Amazon Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home. Streaming rights rotate and differ by country, so check your local listings before planning a marathon.

Yes. The four Ed and Lorraine films carry the whole story on their own: The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, The Devil Made Me Do It and Last Rites. Nothing in them depends on a spin-off, so those four are a complete watch. If you do add spin-offs, keep The Nun and The Nun II together, since both follow Sister Irene and the possessed Maurice, and keep the two Annabelle prequels near each other, because Annabelle: Creation ends with the 1967 scene that opens Annabelle (2014). The easiest single film to drop is The Curse of La Llorona, which shares one supporting character with Annabelle and nothing else.

By critics, Annabelle: Creation (2017) is the pick at 71 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and it is the one that makes the doll's backstory hang together. Annabelle Comes Home (2019) follows at 64 percent and is the most fun for fans, since it is set inside the Warrens' artifact room with their 10-year-old daughter Judy. The Nun II (2023) sits at 51 percent. The weakest reviewed are Annabelle (2014) at 28 percent, The Curse of La Llorona (2019) at 26 percent and The Nun (2018) at 24 percent, the lowest score of any film here. The Nun is still worth a look if you care about the mythology, because it is Valak's origin and its ending leads straight into the first Conjuring.

For a first watch, use release order starting with The Conjuring (2013). For the in-universe timeline, start with The Nun (1952) and follow the chronological order on this page.

No. The four main Conjuring films stand on their own. The spin-offs fill in backstory: the three Annabelle films explain the doll the Warrens lock in their artifact room, and the two Nun films are the origin of Valak, the demon that takes nun form in The Conjuring 2. The Nun (2018) is the one that feeds straight back into the main series, because it ends by jumping twenty years ahead to a possessed Maurice attacking Lorraine at a Warren lecture, which is what sends them to the Perron farmhouse in the first film.

Not officially. It is set in 1973 Los Angeles, it shares Father Perez (Tony Amendola) with Annabelle, and he talks about the doll case on screen, but director Michael Chaves has repeatedly said it is not an official entry and it is left out of the studio's count of nine. We list it because it takes place in the same world, and it is the safest film here to skip. A sequel, The Revenge of La Llorona, is dated for February 26, 2027.

It is the last one led by Ed and Lorraine Warren. Released September 5, 2025 and directed by Michael Chaves, Last Rites is the ninth film in the franchise and the fourth and final one built around the Warrens, closing their story on the 1986 Smurl haunting in West Pittston, Pennsylvania and ending with their daughter Judy's wedding. It was also the biggest hit here, opening to $84 million domestically, the best opening in the franchise and the third biggest ever for a horror film, and finishing at about $499 million worldwide. Critics were split, at 57 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. It is the end of the Warrens, not the end of the universe.

They are loosely inspired by cases from real paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren: the Perron family in The Conjuring, the Enfield poltergeist in The Conjuring 2, the Arne Johnson murder trial in The Devil Made Me Do It, and the Smurl haunting in Last Rites. The films dramatize heavily, and the real cases are contested, with skeptics and some of the people involved disputing the Warrens' accounts.

The Nun (2018) is set the earliest, in 1952, depicting the origin of the demonic Valak before the Warren-era stories.

No. Last Rites ended the Warrens' story in 2025, but The Conjuring: First Communion opens in theaters on September 10, 2027. It is a prequel about the couple's early investigations, with Garrett Wareing and Amanda Fix as young Ed and Lorraine, Rodrigue Huart directing, and Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing writing. Being a prequel it should land near the front of the timeline, but no in-story year has been announced, so we hold it at the end of the chronological list until the setting is confirmed. HBO Max also has a Conjuring television series in development, set after the films, with Nancy Won as showrunner and no cast or premiere date yet.

The Conjuring: First Communion is dated September 10, 2027. The next chapter of the Conjuring universe. A date that far out can still move, so this is the date we can currently source rather than a rumoured one.