The second movie in the "Conjuring" franchise was inspired by a real Raggedy Ann doll with a disturbing backstory.

The Conjuring has birthed an entire universe of movies, but what's considered true and what's considered totally made up?

And, just to make things extra scary, she's real. Sort of. The "real" Annabelle is actually a rather harmless-looking Raggedy Ann doll, but that wouldn't fly for the movies. So when it came time ...

Audiences latched onto Annabelle, a creepy porcelain doll that turns up right at the ... work and made some serious improvements to Raggedy Ann’s goth cousin. Annabelle was now genuinely scary ...

Or perhaps it was a Raggedy Ann doll riding that bicycle with a look of madness in her sewn face. I want to get back to that creepy scene so I can shiver and whimper some more but wouldn’t you ...

Annabelle and M3GAN are some of the more recently created killer dolls to join other characters in a theme long synonymous with cinematic horror. Photos / Warner Bros Pictures / Universal Pictures ...

Horror films have produced some of the most iconic figures in pop culture. But not all scary movies are completely fictional; some are actually based on real life. "The Conjuring" was based on the ...