The Conjuring 2 (2016)

The Conjuring 2 is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan, based on the Warrens' investigation of the Enfield poltergeist in London in 1977. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as Ed and Lorraine Warren, who travel to England to help the Hodgson family — a single mother and her four children — who are terrorized by a malevolent entity that possesses 11-year-old Janet and manifests as Bill Wilkins, a belligerent old man who died in the house. The investigation becomes the most dangerous case of the Warrens' career as Lorraine realizes the entity is connected to a demonic nun she has been seeing in terrifying visions.

James Wan expanded the scope and emotional depth of the franchise, giving the Warrens a more developed relationship dynamic while delivering set pieces that were even more inventive and frightening than the original. The Crooked Man sequence, in which an illustration from a toy zoetrope becomes a grotesque, limb-bending creature, was a standout of practical-inspired horror filmmaking. The film earned $321 million worldwide on a $40 million budget, cementing the Conjuring franchise's position as the most commercially successful horror property in cinema.