Pakistan, June 27 -- Nestled somewhere in the Evil Doll Hall of Fame between Chuckie and The Twilight Zone's Talky Tina, the Conjuring franchise's resident Satanic toy has enough industry juice to have knocked out three spin-off movies - not bad for a scene-stealing porcelain figure originally used as a supernatural conduit by a Manson-lite cult.

Just don't call it "possessed," however, if you're around paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. "Demons don't possess things, only people," they declare, before their car breaks down, late at night, in front of a fogged-in graveyard, right by a grisly car accident. Annabelle is more of a "beacon" for angry spirits. Wherever she goes, ghostly carnage follows. The couple is lucky to mak...