Every entry in The Conjuring franchise has felt unique so far.
The Conjuring told a very traditional “haunted house” story loosely based on real events, and The Conjuring 2 took that idea one step further by examining an arguably more famous haunting in the London suburbs.
Given the creative success of all of those films, The Crooked Man will go one step further by aiming at the fairy tale creature’s “whimsical” roots in British folklore.
By contrast, the first Annabelle leveled its sights on Southern California in the 1960s and framed its narrative by combining fear of the Manson Family with a new take on Rosemary’s Baby.