No one expects anything sinister to occur when Lorraine Warren is doing something so mundane as laundry.

Viewers also expected perhaps the spirit would appear when the door wasshut,but no such payout occurs.

Then the camera suddenly pansup,and Bathsheba is shrieking from on top of the wardrobe.

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It only took one extremely frightening scene to cement her legacy.

Lorraine Warren is trapped in the study of her house, where her husband often paints.

The painting he made of The Nun, recalled from a dream of his, hangs on the wall.

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The screen goes black, and we see an old man in the battered brown chair sitting behind her.

After that, Janet experiences one of the film’s most successful jump scares.

InThe Conjuring 2,they’re especially creepy when they’re half filled with stagnant water.

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Did we mention possibly inhabited by demons lurking beneath the surface?

Nowhere is this on greater display than inAnnabelle: Creation,the sixth film in the franchise.

It’s there that she uncovers the crumpled top half of Esther Mullins' corpse.

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Deep beneath the convent Sister Irene has discovered the demon Valak’s point of origin.

She ventures to the resurrection chamber, now filled with water, and is attacked by a spirit.

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