The Nun takes place in Romania in 1952 and at this point is the earliest chapter in The Conjuring universe. It’s the most contemporary of the series yet and while it is a standalone it does have tie-ins to the Annabelle films.
The Conjuring universe has just added the latest chapter to their growing saga with The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It which is part of the main Conjuring canon, centered around a case pulled from Ed and Lorraine Warren’s file.
It’s no coincidence that Wan has had a hand in every one of The Conjuring universe’s scripts in some capacity too. You don’t need to be aware of these touches of continuity to enjoy the films, but their presence shows how important this universe (and its timeline) is to James Wan and the respective filmmakers. What’s fun about all of these spin-offs and side stories is that they intentionally feature tiny epilogues or moments that feed into other films in the franchise. The Conjuring’s Annabelle, Valak, the Nun, and the Crooked Man are no Frankenstein’s Monster or Dracula, but the mission is the same: scaring as many people as possible. Comics have been telling a sprawling, interconnected story since their inception, while the first connected film universe ever, the Universal Monsters, was a horror franchise.
It’s kind of perfect that the only two successful major shared cinematic universes out there are superheroes and horror. Warning! Contains major spoilers for The Nun, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and all Conjuring movies!
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