'Annabelle' Plot, Beginning and Ending of Film Starts 'The Conjuring' Movie
"Annabelle," an American supernatural horror film was premiered worldwide on Oct. 3. The film is both a prequel to and a spin-off of "The Conjuring." The film was directed by John. R. Leonetti, produced by James Wan and stars Annabelle Wallis as Mia Gordon, Ward Horton as John Gordon, and Alfre Woodard as Evelyn.
The story is about a haunted doll named Annabelle and the haunting of a couple, John and Mia Gordon.
The film starts with the same opening as in "The Conjuring" where two young women and a young man are telling Ed and Lorraine Warren of their experience with a haunted doll named Annabelle. John and Mia Gordon earlier in 1967, are expecting a child and John gives Mia a doll that she has been looking for.
A murder happens at their neighbor's home one night where Mia tells John about it and he proceeds to investigate. As Mia calls the police she is attacked by a woman holding her new doll and a male murderer. Fortunately, John and the police arrive and kill the man while the woman kills herself in another room.
Later they find out that the woman was Annabelle Higgins. What follows is a series of strange happenings which the Gordons are lead to believe are caused by the doll, inhabited by Annabelle's spirit.
Apparently, they learn that the only way to stop the haunting is to sacrifice a soul. The manage to stop the hauntings but at the cost of Evelyn's life, a woman who runs a bookstore whom Mia met earlier in the film.
