The second movie in the "Conjuring" franchise was inspired by a real Raggedy Ann doll with a disturbing backstory.

The Conjuring has birthed an entire universe of movies, but what's considered true and what's considered totally made up?

And, just to make things extra scary, she's real. Sort of. The "real" Annabelle is actually a rather harmless-looking Raggedy Ann doll, but that wouldn't fly for the movies. So when it came time ...

Annabelle was now genuinely scary, using her powers to much greater effect to scare the stuffing out of a group of orphaned ...

Annabelle and M3GAN are some of the more recently created killer dolls to join other characters in a theme long synonymous with cinematic horror. Photos / Warner Bros Pictures / Universal Pictures ...

they call in real-life noted husband-and-wife demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), who gained fame from the famous case of the possessed Raggedy Ann doll known ...

The second movie in the "Conjuring" franchise was inspired by a real Raggedy Ann doll with a disturbing ... The Conjuring and Annabelle are somewhat similar to the doll’s true story.

The second movie in the "Conjuring" franchise was inspired by a real Raggedy Ann doll with a disturbing backstory. Ten years after Annabelle made waves with her own feature film, Entertainment ...