8 Movies We Didn’t Know Were Origin Stories Going In

Much like we were all duped into thinking the first Conjuring movie was to be all about the Annabelle doll, The Conjuring 2 was set up to focus on the real-life case known as the Enfield Poltergeist.

Released as The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Case in some markets, this 2016 sequel offering did indeed focus a large amount of its attention on the spooky shenanigans that terrified the Hodgson family in Enfield, London. As well as this, though, The Conjuring 2 also served as an introduction to the sinister Valak.

With the haunting of the Hodgsons initially put down to the spirit of former resident Bill Wilkins, it would be revealed that the real villain of the piece here is the demon Valak. This would be a sinister nun who Vera Varmiga's Lorraine Warren had seen visions of earlier - with those visions featuring the death of Lorraine's husband Ed.

All of this gave us our first glimpse into the nefarious Valak, setting the demon up to take-centre stage in 2018's The Nun; a movie that was set in 1952 Romania and saw Valak once more up to no good.