Annabelle is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, produced by James Wan, and written by Gary Dauberman. It is both a prequel to and spin-off of The Conjuring. The film stars Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, and Alfre Woodard. The film was released worldwide on October 3, 2014. The film starts with the same opening scene from The Conjuring, in which two young women and a young man in 1968 are telling Ed and Lorraine Warren about their experience with a doll they believe to be haunted, known as Annabelle. One year earlier in 1967, John and Mia Gordon (Ward Horton and Annabelle Wallis) are expecting their first child. John gives her a doll that she apparently has been trying to find. Mia loves it and puts it with the rest of her doll collection in their baby's room. At night, Mia hears a murder happens at the Higgins', their neighbours, home. She tells John and he goes over to investigate. He runs out of the neighbor's house covered in blood (not his), tell...