Prepare to sleep with the lights on! We're diving deep into the entire Conjuring Universe to officially countdown the Top 20 Scariest Moments From The Conjuring Franchise. This is the ultimate horror movie countdown for fans of supernatural horror.
From the original terror of The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2 to the chilling court case in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, no film is safe. We've revisited every terrifying encounter with the Annabelle doll in Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation, and Annabelle Comes Home, and faced the demonic entity Valak in The Nun and The Nun II. This is more than just a list of the best jumpscares; it's a horror movie analysis of the most frightening movie moments ever created by James Wan and his team.
This top horror list features the best horror scenes involving demonic possession, chilling exorcism scenes, and unforgettable moments like the iconic hide and clap scene. We'll revisit the cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren and come face-to-face with the scariest demons of the franchise, including Bathsheba and The Crooked Man. After watching these scary movie clips, you'll be able to answer the question: what is the scariest Conjuring movie of them all?
IN THIS VIDEO, YOU WILL SEE:
The most intense scenes from all 9 movies in the franchise.
A ranked list of the most terrifying Conjuring universe scary scenes.
An analysis of what makes these moments in modern horror movies so effective.
Our final verdict on the most bone-chilling moment in the series.
Which of these moments still haunts you? Did your scariest scene make the list? Let us know in the comments! Don't forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE for more horror countdowns!
#TheConjuring #ConjuringUniverse #Horror #ScaryMovies #Annabelle #TheNun #HorrorMovies #JamesWan #JumpScares
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From the original terror of The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2 to the chilling court case in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, no film is safe. We've revisited every terrifying encounter with the Annabelle doll in Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation, and Annabelle Comes Home, and faced the demonic entity Valak in The Nun and The Nun II. This is more than just a list of the best jumpscares; it's a horror movie analysis of the most frightening movie moments ever created by James Wan and his team.
This top horror list features the best horror scenes involving demonic possession, chilling exorcism scenes, and unforgettable moments like the iconic hide and clap scene. We'll revisit the cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren and come face-to-face with the scariest demons of the franchise, including Bathsheba and The Crooked Man. After watching these scary movie clips, you'll be able to answer the question: what is the scariest Conjuring movie of them all?
IN THIS VIDEO, YOU WILL SEE:
The most intense scenes from all 9 movies in the franchise.
A ranked list of the most terrifying Conjuring universe scary scenes.
An analysis of what makes these moments in modern horror movies so effective.
Our final verdict on the most bone-chilling moment in the series.
Which of these moments still haunts you? Did your scariest scene make the list? Let us know in the comments! Don't forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE for more horror countdowns!
#TheConjuring #ConjuringUniverse #Horror #ScaryMovies #Annabelle #TheNun #HorrorMovies #JamesWan #JumpScares
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00:00More Universal Fears, maybe. It uses atmosphere, character, the whole storytelling package to build horror that, well, lasts.
00:08Okay, so let's dive in. How does this universe grab you right from the start?
00:12We kind of have to begin with the first film, The Conjuring.
00:15And that opening with Annabelle, it's number 20 on the list we're looking at.
00:20That super intense focus on her eye, it's just immediately off, right?
00:25Totally. It's unsettling from frame one.
00:27And then you see this doll, supposedly inanimate, just terrorizing these young women.
00:32It's not just a random scare, it feels like a statement.
00:35It perfectly sets the tone for everything that follows.
00:38It really does. It's a master class in establishing dread.
00:41A strong opening like that, in horror especially, it prepares you.
00:45It tells you what you're in for, and it builds confidence in the director.
00:48Yeah.
00:49Annabelle's debut isn't just, oh look, a creepy doll.
00:52It makes her instantly iconic.
00:53Like this symbol of corrupted innocence, which is a theme they return to again and again.
00:59That early establishment is definitely key.
01:01And you see it again, Annabelle comes home with the truck scene, that's number 19.
01:05Right, another really strong visceral moment early on.
01:08Ed and Lorraine are driving Annabelle home.
01:09The car conks out near a cemetery classic setup, and then boom, Ed just gets shoved violently right into the path of this truck.
01:18It's so sudden.
01:19It is.
01:19And what's clever there, I think, is how Gary Dauberman, the director, builds the tension.
01:25It's not just the final shock.
01:27He uses pacing atmosphere that dreads simmers first.
01:31Yeah, you feel it building.
01:32Exactly.
01:33And that line, it's the doll, Ed, it's a beacon for other spirits.
01:37That's crucial.
01:38Oh, okay.
01:39It instantly tells you Annabelle isn't just the source of evil, she attracts it.
01:44She amplifies everything else.
01:45Suddenly the threat is much, much bigger.
01:48That totally ramps up the stakes.
01:50Okay, so shifting gears slightly, the franchise also takes familiar horror stories and gives them a new spin.
01:55Like the Amityville opening in The Conjuring 2, number seven.
01:59Right, Amityville, we've all seen that story a million times.
02:01Exactly, but this film manages to make it genuinely terrifying again, mostly through its visual style, wouldn't you say?
02:08Absolutely, it uses this really jerky editing style.
02:12It feels fragmented, like you're seeing flashes of something awful.
02:15Yeah, like a nightmare.
02:16Precisely, it's disorienting.
02:18It denies you that stable view, making the whole environment feel hostile.
02:21And then when the mother just whips around and stares straight at the camera.
02:25Oof, yeah.
02:26That breaks the barrier, pulls you right in.
02:28It's smart filmmaking, more than just retelling a story.
02:32It's manipulating how you perceive it.
02:34So the setup is strong.
02:36How does that translate into the actual scares?
02:38The franchise seems brilliant at building tension before the, you know, the jump.
02:43Let's talk about the toy firetruck scene from The Conjuring 2, number 18.
02:47The firetruck.
02:48Classic.
02:49You get that really uneasy feeling when the truck just appears outside Billy's room.
02:54Then there's that blanket tent down the hall.
02:56It's all silence and shadow.
02:58What makes that work so well?
02:59It's all about playing with expectations, I think.
03:01Using negative space.
03:02You know something's in that tent.
03:04Right, you're waiting for it.
03:05But the slow pan, the silence, it forces your own imagination to do the heavy lifting.
03:11You start picturing the worst.
03:12So when the actual scare comes, that horrible guttural sound, even if some people call that
03:18kind of sound a bit, maybe cheap, it hits so hard because of all that tension they built
03:23up first.
03:24It's the release.
03:25That makes sense.
03:26It's earned.
03:27Okay, another example of that precision.
03:29The ghost girl in the door scene from Annabelle, number 17.
03:33Mia's Home Alone, you get the classic spooky stuff, music starts on its own, sewing machine
03:38goes off.
03:39Then you see this little girl darting around.
03:41Fleeting glimpses.
03:42Very effective.
03:43But the real kicker is after the door slams and the girl just charges at Mia and then morphs
03:48into this horrific demonic woman.
03:50Yeah, that transformation is key.
03:52What director John Arleonetti does there is build the dread carefully, step by step,
03:56no cheap tricks early on.
03:57Right.
03:57The progression feels natural in a horrifying way.
04:01And that final transformation is smooth, seamless, and utterly shocking.
04:06It's not just a noise.
04:07It's a visual violation.
04:09Innocent child to monster in an instant.
04:11That's guaranteed to make you jump or scream.
04:14The delivery matters so much.
04:15Okay, speaking of earned scares, what about the old man in the TV from The Conjuring 2,
04:19number five?
04:20Oh, that's a great one.
04:21Because you get this series of creepy things happening, shadows, noises, but nothing truly
04:26terrifying happens for a while.
04:28Exactly.
04:28It builds apprehension slowly.
04:30Little disturbances.
04:32Then that final glimpse of the old man in the TV reflection and bang, the jump scare
04:37hits.
04:38Why is that pacing so effective?
04:40It's the perfect definition of an earned jump scare.
04:42They accumulate all this tension, these minor frights, pushing you to the edge.
04:47Without giving you the release.
04:49Precisely.
04:50You're getting more and more uneasy.
04:51So when the actual payoff arrives, that shocking image, it feels much more impactful than if
04:57it had just come out of nowhere.
04:58It's the release of all that built-up suspense.
05:00You really feel that tension coiling up.
05:03And talking about pacing and those James Wan-esque tactics, the basement elevator scene in Annabelle
05:09number four.
05:10Ah, yes.
05:10Classic Wan style.
05:11Something unsettling appears in the corner of the baby carriage, but then, crucially, you
05:15get this incredible silent tension.
05:17And you're absolutely braced for the scare.
05:19And nothing happens immediately.
05:21Right.
05:22That restraint somehow makes it worse.
05:23Your anxiety just skyrockets.
05:25It's psychological manipulation, really.
05:27Instead of going straight for the scare, they let the silence stretch.
05:31They force you to sit with your own fear in that confined space.
05:35The baby carriage is creepy, sure, but it's the waiting that weaponizes your expectations.
05:41So the delay actually amplifies it.
05:43Exactly.
05:43By the time the scare does come, your nerves are completely frayed.
05:46It hits harder.
05:47Okay.
05:47And while we're talking effective scares, maybe a quick mention of the laundry ghost
05:51from The Conjuring.
05:52Number eight.
05:54Now, its impact might have been a bit dulled because it was all over the trailers.
05:58Yeah, that happens.
05:59Overexposure.
06:00But conceptually, what made it so effective originally?
06:03I think it was placing the scare in such a mundane, everyday setting.
06:08A brightly lit laundry room.
06:10It wasn't a dark basement or attic.
06:11Right.
06:12Totally unexpected space.
06:13It violates that sense of safety in the ordinary.
06:15It tells you the evil isn't just lurking in the shadows.
06:18It can literally pop up while you're folding towels.
06:21That's a deeply unsettling idea.
06:25Nowhere is safe.
06:25Yeah, that hits differently.
06:27Okay, let's shift a bit.
06:29Some moments hit harder not just because they're scary, but because they're brutal or emotionally
06:34wrenching.
06:35Carolyn's possession in The Conjuring, number 16.
06:37Oof, yeah.
06:39That one's tough.
06:40Seeing Carolyn taken over by Bathsheba actually turn on her own child and then being violently
06:46yanked back into the house, it's rough to watch.
06:50It's that combination of visceral brutality and gut-wrenching emotional weight, like the
06:55source says.
06:56It taps into that primal fear of a parent harming their child or losing control so completely.
07:01Yeah.
07:02Watching her fight it, being thrown around, it's just plain heartbreaking.
07:05The horror goes beyond ghosts.
07:07It's about the destruction of the most fundamental human bond.
07:10That makes it deeply disturbing on a personal level.
07:13That violation is chilling.
07:14And then you have, in Annabelle, creation, Esther Mullen's corpse, number 13.
07:20Another really intense one.
07:21You have the tragic backstory.
07:22They invited the demon in trying to reach their dead daughter, but the actual horror lands
07:26when you see her body mutilated, hanging there.
07:28Horrific image.
07:30Only for her half-torn corpse to suddenly spring back to life.
07:33It's a scene that masterfully blends gore, supernatural terror, and those high emotional
07:38stakes.
07:39The initial sight is just a gory and jarring sight, absolutely.
07:42Yeah.
07:42But it's the reanimation, the violation of death itself, that makes you scream along with
07:46the characters.
07:47It takes their grief and twists it into something truly monstrous and physically terrifying.
07:53Okay.
07:53Let's talk villains.
07:54The franchise is great at creating unforgettable antagonists.
07:59The Crooked Man from The Conjuring 2, number 15.
08:01Ah, The Crooked Man.
08:03Visually stunning.
08:04That transformation from the dog toy or the zoetrope into this towering, impossibly
08:10comported figure and the nursery rhyme, twisting something innocent into pure nightmare fuel.
08:16It's brilliant.
08:16And the really amazing thing, he's not CGI.
08:19Wait, really?
08:20No, it's actor Javier Bote, who's an incredible contortionist.
08:23One enhances his performance with slow pans, that pulsing score.
08:27Yeah.
08:27But the core of it is practical.
08:29That gives it this uncanny, tangible creepiness that CGI often lacks.
08:33Wow.
08:33That makes it even more unsettling.
08:35Definitely.
08:35And the nursery rhyme just seals the deal, weaponizing childhood innocence.
08:39And then, of course, there's Valak, the nun.
08:42The final showdown, the nun, number 14, in that claustrophobic tunnel.
08:48It plays on so many fears at once.
08:50Confinement.
08:51Drowning.
08:52Helplessness.
08:52Valak's power is also in her shape-shifting, sowing confusion and fear.
08:58That tunnel scene amps up the primal terror being trapped, water rising, facing this ancient evil.
09:06It feels relentless, as the source puts it.
09:08Even when they think they've won.
09:09Exactly.
09:10Yeah.
09:10And that detail, remember, about the possessed man speaking?
09:13Some of the best Latin I'd ever heard.
09:15Chilling.
09:15It just adds this layer of authentic, ancient malevolence.
09:18Those details stick.
09:19And speaking of Valak, we have to talk about the painting scene in The Conjuring 2, number two.
09:23It's just a phenomenal scene.
09:26Pure psychological horror.
09:28The staging, the lighting, especially when the lamp goes out and you're left with just her silhouette, maybe?
09:33Standing in the shadows.
09:34It creates this borderline intolerable anxiety.
09:37Is it the painting?
09:37Is she actually in the room?
09:38That ambiguity is terrifying.
09:40Your mind fills in the blanks.
09:42Precisely.
09:43It's brilliant staging and lighting.
09:45That forces your eyes to strain.
09:47Makes you question what you're seeing.
09:49Constant chills.
09:50It's a perfect example of how what you don't clearly see can be much scarier.
09:55Okay, let's get to the really iconic moments where everything just clicks.
09:59The hide-and-clap scene from The Conjuring, number three.
10:02Many would say this is the scene of the franchise.
10:04It's definitely up there.
10:05Quintessential, maybe?
10:06Just the image, or rather the sound, of those clapping hands in the dark.
10:11Your imagination runs wild.
10:13You immediately think of something malicious playing this game.
10:16And it builds.
10:17That pause before the final clap behind the mother.
10:20Unbearable nervousness.
10:21It perfectly uses sound and the unseen.
10:25What you imagine in that darkness, playing that childhood game, it's terrifying.
10:30It proves suggestion can be way more powerful than just showing a monster.
10:34One of the most iconic scares of the decade.
10:36Easily.
10:37Totally agree.
10:38And that brings us to number one.
10:39Bathsheba on top of the wardrobe, also from The Conjuring.
10:42The big one.
10:43It starts so typically, right?
10:45A door bangs, character goes to check the closet, you think you know what's coming.
10:49And that's the genius of it.
10:50It uses your knowledge of horror tropes against you.
10:53You expect the scare to come from inside the closet, or maybe when she turns around.
10:57But it doesn't.
10:57No.
10:58James Wan completely subverts it.
11:00The camera panning up the wardrobe?
11:03That's the master stroke.
11:04It's an unexpected angle, the reveal is perfectly timed, and it catches you completely off guard.
11:10It shows why he's such a master as taking a cliche and making it genuinely shocking again by playing with your gaze.
11:17Just brilliant.
11:18Before we wrap, we should touch on that based-on-true-events angle, especially in The Conjuring 2.
11:22Moment number 12, when Bill Wilkins' voice laughs through Janet.
11:26Ah, yeah.
11:27The Enfield-Poltergeist connection.
11:28When Janet, possessed by this old man, Billy Wilkins, is just hurling abuse at her mother, knowing there's a real case behind it, that simple spin, it just amplifies the dread, doesn't it?
11:39Absolutely.
11:39That based-on-true-events tag, especially for moments like that, taps into a deeper fear.
11:44It blurs fiction and reality.
11:46Makes it feel possible.
11:47Exactly.
11:48Could this actually happen?
11:49Did it?
11:50Hearing that child speak with that gruff, malevolent voice is disturbing enough, but linking it to a documented case, it makes the supernatural feel unnervingly close, planting that seed of doubt.
12:03It's far more terrifying than if it were purely made up.
12:06Wow.
12:06Okay.
12:06What a journey through these scares.
12:08So, to kind of wrap it up, it seems the Conjuring franchise terrifies us through this amazing mix of tension-building, earned jump scares, sometimes real visceral brutality, unforgettable villains, and just really smart filmmaking that plays with what we expect.
12:24That sums it up well.
12:26These are just cheap thrills designed to make you jump once.
12:28They exploit those deep-seated universal fears, they get you invested emotionally, and they use the craft of cinema-like, sound, pacing, subversion to create something that genuinely stays with you.
12:38It's psychological impact, not just momentary fright.
12:40So, thinking about all this, the craft, the psychology, what elements do you listening think are absolutely essential for a horror film to be truly memorable, not just scary in the moment, something to chew on, maybe?
12:52Thank you so much for joining us on this deep dive into, well, what makes us scared.
12:56We'll catch you next time.
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