Linda uses Bee's toy gun to detect the demon's presence by shooting its ball into the darkness.
Linda waits in her and Janice's bedroom, anticipating Annabelle to appear. On the fourth night, Linda, after comforting Janice, opens the door to Bee's room and notices that Annabelle is absent from her chair. Annabelle turns around with a demonic face, and declares that she wants "her soul." In complete fear, Janice attempts to flee from Annabelle via a stairwell, only for the latter to catch her and throw her down from the second-floor landing to the first floor, confining her to a wheelchair. Annabelle then appears to Janice in Bee's form, and Janice asks Annabelle what she wants. After Linda leaves the room and goes back to bed, Janice reads Bee's diary, and the door shuts. Janice tells her about Bee, and Linda accidentally shoots Annabelle with a toy gun, resulting in the doll glaring at her ominously. After Janice turns it off, her best friend, and another one of the orphans, Linda enters the room. On the third night, Janice hears "You Are My Sunshine" playing on the gramophone in Bee's room. Annabelle then attacks the girls, grabbing Carol's face, before the demon disappears when Kate turns on the light. After their flashlight shuts off, they see Annabelle through their blanket, as a shadowy figure representing their interpretation of Esther's appearance in their stories. As Esther's bell continues to ring, Carol and Nancy wonder why Samuel doesn't answer her. On the second night, when Carol and Nancy stay up to gossip and tell stories about Esther in the girls' bedroom, they hear her bell ringing for Samuel's assistance. Annabelle, now released from Bee's closet, begins terrorizing the girls throughout their stay at the Mullins farmhouse, primarily focusing on Janice.
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Janice looks out the windows and runs back to the room, after seeing Samuel about to reenter the house. She then throws a bedsheet over the doll, but Annabelle gets up from her chair and slowly approaches Janice as the bedsheet slips off, revealing nothing underneath. Janice then locks the closet again, locking it this time, but Bee's closet opens again. Janice, creeped out by the doll, shuts the closet, only for it to open again. Janice finds a key within a dollhouse, and unlocks Bee's closet, unintentionally freeing Annabelle. Janice sneaks into Bee's room, which has somehow been unlocked, despite Samuel's warning to not enter. She decides to investigate where the noise came from, and discovers a note, saying "Find me.". When night falls, Janice, a young girl crippled by polio and one of the orphans, is awakened by a noise. Eustace after the closing of their orphanage. The Mullins couple then takes Annabelle and seals her inside Bee's closet, covering the walls in Bible pages, before reaching out to the church to bless the household.Īnnabelle would remain dormant until 12 years later in 1957 when the Mullins couple opens their home to provide shelter for Sister Charlotte and the orphans of St. Soon after, Annabelle attacks Esther, gouging her left eye out. Initially, the Mullins were overjoyed at the sight of their daughter, but they eventually realized that they had been deceived by a malevolent spirit that was searching for a human host. The demon then requests permission to transfer its essence into one of Samuel's porcelain dolls, in order to use it as a temporary vessel. As a result, they unknowingly summoned a demon, who masqueraded as Bee's spirit. Out of grief, the Mullins couple prayed to anything that could bring their daughter back.
One day, on the way back from church, when Samuel and his wife, Esther, pull over their car to fix a tire, Bee runs onto the road and dies when she is hit by a passing car. The film opens in 1943, with successful toy maker Samuel Mullins creating his very first porcelain doll, which he would give to his daughter, Annabelle, nicknamed "Bee". Terror soon strikes when one child sneaks into a forbidden room and finds a seemingly innocent doll that appears to have a life of its own. Years earlier, the couple's 7-year-old daughter Annabelle ( Samara Lee) died in a tragic car accident.
Former toy maker Samuel Mullins ( Anthony LaPaglia) and his wife Esther ( Miranda Otto) are happy to welcome a nun ( Stephanie Sigman) and six orphaned girls into their California farmhouse.