Every Conjuring Movie Featuring The Disciples Of The Ram

How many movies in The Conjuring franchise has cult The Disciples Of The Ram appeared in so far? James Wan appears to have a knack for creating long-running horror franchises. While Saw was conceived as a one-off thriller, its surprise success and iconic villain led to a series that spawned a further eight entries. His tiny budget Blumhouse horror movie Insidious also became an unexpected smash, with a fifth movie currently in development, while Wan is returning to the director’s chair for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.

Easily his biggest horror franchise to date is The Conjuring movie series, which encompasses three main entries and many spinoffs. The original Conjuring was based on a case by Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga respectively) and the movie put Wan’s talent for slow-burn suspense combined with shocking jump scares on display. Wan returned to direct The Conjuring 2, while the franchise has received offshoots such as The Nun or The Curse of La Llorona.

The eight movies that comprise The Conjuring franchise have earned a combined tally of over $2 billion, making it the most successful horror movie franchise in history. The series has been smart about how it’s expanded out, with the spinoffs often focusing on the origins of its villains such as Annabelle or The Nun’s Valak. While not quite the equivalent of the MCU’s HYDRA, The Conjuring series has its own human villains with The Disciples of the Ram, a cult who’ve only really played a role in two entries so far.

The first is Annabelle, the second entry in The Conjuring universe that explored the backstory of the titular doll. In the movie’s opening, a teenager named Annabelle and her boyfriend murdered her parents and later attacked their neighbors, the Forms. The couple were brutally attacked but survived the ordeal, and later learned Annabelle and her partner were part of the Disciples of the Ram satanic cult. In addition to spreading general chaos, the cult aims to summon evil spirits into the world.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the eighth entry in the series and reveals a little more about the Disciples of the Ram. The sequel – which is set in 1981 in The Conjuring’s timeline – sees the Warrens investigating a case of supposed demonic possession, and looking into a witch’s totem found underneath a house leads them to Father Kastner. This priest helped bring down the Disciples of the Ram years earlier. This led to a trial where the prosecutor’s wife later gave birth to a stillborn baby whose heart was on the outside of the body, which was the cult’s revenge. While the cult was seemingly destroyed, it’s revealed Kastner’s daughter Isla became obsessed with the Disciples of the Ram, eventually becoming an occultist and setting the sequel’s demonic plot in motion. It’s unknown if the cult will return for future Conjuring movies, though they do have the potential to become the series’ main human antagonists.

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It’s pronounced Paw-rick, not Pad-raig. Now that’s out of the way, a brief introduction. Padraig has been writing about film online since 2012, when a friend asked if he’d like to contribute the occasional review or feature to their site.

A part-time hobby soon blossomed into a career when he discovered he really loved writing about movies, TV and video games – he even (arguably) had a little bit of talent for it. He has written words for Den of Geek, Collider, The Irish Times and Screen Rant over the years, and can discuss anything from the MCU – where Hawkeye is clearly the best character – to the most obscure cult b-movie gem, and his hot takes often require heat resistant gloves to handle.

He’s super modern too, so his favorite movies include Jaws, Die Hard, The Thing, Ghostbusters and Batman. He can be found as i_Padds on Twitter making bad puns.

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