How To Watch Every Annabelle Movie? Easy Watch Order Guide

Ancient folktales involving demonic dolls have always piqued everyone’s interest from time to time. Annabelle is not an exception.

Name your fear triggers, and they’re definitely somewhere in the good ol’ Annabelle movies, the most beloved arc of The Conjuring franchise.

There have been three feature films showcasing the notoriously haunted doll until now. And below is the perfect order in which you should watch them:

1. Release Order

Annabelle is an actual Ann doll housed in the occult museum of Ed and Lorraine Warren. The 2014 movie told a fictionalized description on how a demon came to be attached to the doll.

• Annabelle (2014)
• Annabelle: Creation (2017)
• Annabelle Comes Home (2019)

So, after the grand success of Annabelle, another two movies joined the storyline later on, but one was a prequel and another a sequel. The exact timeline represented by the three movies is given below:

2. Chronological Watch Order

One of the most exciting connective twists you’ll ever see is in the prequel Annabelle: Creation. Set in 1955, it serves as the origin story of the ragged doll which makes little girls check under their bed and investigate some prohibited things.

• Annabelle: Creation (2017)
• Annabelle (2014)
• Annabelle Comes Home (2019)

Get ready to take a sneak peak inside Warrens’ Museum with the third installment Annabelle Comes Home. Though it does come back with a been-there-screamed-at-that kind of vibe, it’s still in a good continuity with other Conjuring movies.

3. Ultimate Watch Order

Now, how will I let you off the hook with just watching Annabelle movies when you have not watched the movie saga which introduced the doll in the first place? That’s right, I am talking about The Conjuring movies.

• Annabelle: Creation (2017)
• Annabelle (2014)
• The Conjuring (2013)
• Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
• The Conjuring 2 (2016)
• The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

The original appearance of Annabelle was in the 2013’s The Conjuring, which showed how the doll came into Warrens’ possession. These are the chief canonical movies of The Conjuring verse. So why not watch it at the same time you’re seeing the Annabelle films? After all, their storylines do tie up together.

4. Where To Watch

ANNABELLE COMES HOME - Official Trailer

5. How Much Time Will It Take To Watch

All the three movies, totalling upto 5 hours and 14 mins, will make up for a worthy one horror night’s watch with your buddies.

Here’s a quick breakdown each installment wise:

• Annabelle (2014) – 1 hr 38 mins
• Annabelle: Creation (2017) – 1 hr 50 mins
• Annabelle Comes Home (2019) – 1 hr 46 mins

Note: These are approximate values of the runtimes.

6. About The Conjuring Universe

The Conjuring Universe is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of supernatural horror films, produced by New Line Cinema, the Safran Company, and Atomic Monster Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The films present a dramatization of the supposed real-life cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent yet controversial cases of haunting.

The main series follows their attempts to assist people who find themselves possessed by demonic spirits, while the spin-off films focus on the origins of some of the entities the Warrens have encountered.