Since the emergence of Marvel movies, major studios have targeted the film universe , such as Warner's DCEU , the legendary monster universe (King Kong and Godzilla).
But if you want to say which "universe" will make a fortune in silence, then you have to count the soul-conscious universe created by our Asian brother Wen Ziren.
The basement of the Warrens' house,
It is the IP treasure house of the Conjuring Universe
Not long ago , "Annabelle 3" just released the juice source. Today, I will come to share with you what is going on in the Conjuring Universe.
The Conjuring Universe started with the horror film "The Conjuring 1" directed by Wen Ziren in 2013.
Don't look at Director Wen's thin body and haircuts. In fact, he is the most commercially valuable Chinese director in Hollywood today. Without one, Ang Lee has to let him go.
Wen Ziren has made high-profile horror films such as "The Chainsaw", "Dead Silence", "Hidden", etc. He was already well-known before the beginning of the Conjuring Universe.
"The Conjuring 1", which set a global box office of $319 million with a cost of only $20 million , made him a god in the first battle.
Therefore, the big bosses have spent a lot of money to recruit Wen Ziren to help them make big commercial films.
Wen Ziren lived up to his trust, and backhanded "Fast and Furious 7" with a box office of 1.5 billion US dollars and " Aquaman" with a box office of 1.148 billion US dollars.
Across the three fields of horror films, racing films, and super-English films , he really let Hollywood bigwigs see what a humanoid self-propelled money printing machine is.
Today's Wen Ziren has become a first-line director, with continuous film appointments, and this year, he is also engaged to his girlfriend, and has a good harvest in both career and love.
It stands to reason that this winner in life is unlikely to have the time to make low-budget horror films. However, it is the traditional virtue of our Chinese nation to not forget the original intention—
Wen Ziren announced that his next movie will be a horror movie.
This official announcement is actually not surprising, because anyone who knows Wen Ziren a little knows how deeply he loves horror movies.
Atomic Monster (Atomic Monster) is an independent label established by Wen Ziren. In addition to making blockbusters, he specially uses this company to produce his beloved horror films, which is the Conjuring Universe.
With 3 "Annabelle", 2 "The Conjuring", "The Nun" and "The Curse of the Crying Woman", the Conjuring Universe currently has a total of seven movies, and the volume of films produced has even been equal to that of the DC Universe.
In the series universe, Wen Ziren personally directed "The Conjuring". He served as the producer of other films, and the apprentices he brought out were the directors.
Although this has led to the uneven quality of The Conjuring Universe movies, these low-cost movies of millions and tens of millions have all box office over 100 million without exception.
Before you know it, they have surpassed DC and become Warner's most stable movie universe.
The reason why the Conjuring Universe is so stupid, Sister Sha thinks there are three reasons in total.
01
The novelty of the horror universe
When it comes to the movie universe, people often can only think of superheroes, and Wen Ziren has opened up another new track besides this——
Let each of the seemingly independent horror films be connected, and let all kinds of ghosts live in the same world.
Annabelle from The Conjuring
The horror films of The Conjuring Universe are nested in layers, and the cameos and foreshadowing of the characters in each film are done very seriously, forming a complete system.
It turns out that the audience really eats this set.
02
Family-friendly horror movie with blockbuster feel
The Conjuring Universe movies are very blockbuster.
For example, action scenes, scientific ghost hunters, and human protagonists with IQ online make The Conjuring Universe not only unique in terms of audio-visual special effects and plot tension, but also endows it with family-friendly attributes that traditional horror films do not have.
No matter how many times the movie of The Conjuring Universe frightens the audience, the final outcome is often that people defeat ghosts, and the mortality rate of the characters in the whole film is quite low.
This "although it is scary, but human beings can always win in the end" model makes more and more audiences who dare not watch horror movies dare to enter the cinema, which greatly expands the audience of horror movies.
03
Based on true events
Some movies in The Conjuring Universe often add the phrase "This film is based on true events" at the title.
That's right, the male and female protagonists in "The Conjuring" all have prototype characters. They are the American supernatural experts , the Warrens , who have really solved many supernatural events.
Rowling Warren, who recently passed away at the age of 92, has also become a hot search on the Internet.
the warrens
Annabelle dolls are also real.
In the 1970s, a mother bought the Annabelle doll as a gift for her daughter. The daughter liked the doll very much. After a while, she and her roommate found that the doll often appeared in various places in the house for no reason.
The doll's posture varies each time it appears, and sometimes it even stands up and appears in locked rooms.
Once, they came home and found a piece of parchment on the doll's hand that said "help me" , but they never had parchment at home.
With strange noises, nightmares, suffocation, scratches and bloodstains, the Annabelle doll leads to a chain of horrors.
The doll's owner invited the Warrens to help her, and the Warrens took the Annabelle doll away after an exorcism.
But the strange thing didn't stop because of this. After that, strange things such as car stalls, dolls floating, and even car accidents happened in this house.
After several exorcisms, the Warrens finally placed the Annabelle doll in a custom-made window at their Oak Museum of Supernaturality.
The real Annabelle doll actually looks cute
Currently in Monroe, Connecticut, there is indeed a museum called Ed and Lorraine Warren's Occult Museum , but it is not open to the public and can only be visited through an event called "Warrenology".
Of course, you can question that the Warrens are a pair of big liars, but with the support of such a museum, compared to ordinary horror movies, does the Conjuring Universe movie become more terrifying and mysterious?
"Annabelle 3," released this year, is about what happened after the Warrens brought the Annabelle doll back to their museum.
There is no "Sister Warner" Annabelle in the film , and her other "neighbors" have also appeared one after another. This collection of ghosts and monsters can be called the Avengers of the horror film industry!
The ghosts that appear in this film are likely to appear in the sequel to The Conjuring Universe.
A low-cost, high-box-office universe. Let Hollywood usher in the golden age of horror films.
Although due to well-known reasons, we mainland audiences will never be able to participate, but we should still be glad——
The rise of The Conjuring Universe has injected fresh blood into Universal Studios, giving audiences with different tastes more choices.
In Hollywood, where super-ying films are the dominant family and there are fewer and fewer pure original films, the Conjuring Universe really cherishes animals.
Let the horror movie fans guard together, Wen Ziren and his dolls.
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