The first film in the franchise, The Conjuring, was a critical and commercial success. It focused on the paranormal experiences of the Perron family and showcased Ed and Lorraine Warren as central characters.
In The Conjuring 2, Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter a demonic nun figure named Valak. At the end of the film, Lorraine learns the demon's name and manages to banish it to hell. while audiences may have thought the film would be the last they'd see of Valak, she returns in The Nun.
The original ten "masters" attending were John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Don Coscarelli, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, Bill Malone, and Garris himself.
From It to Carrie to The Shining: what makes Stephen King the Master of Horror. The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years if it ever did end began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspapers floating down a gutter swollen with rain.