The Conjuring: The History of Malthus (The Annabelle Demon) | Horror History

The infamous "Annabelle" doll has its reputation as one of the world's most cursed objects thanks to THIS demonic entity that is bound to it.

Malthus, also sometimes known as Malphas or Halphas, is the often unseen inhuman spirit linked to the creepiest doll in The Conjuring Universe. Although Malthus is the main antagonist of the story, most fans know very little about it, including it's actual name which one comes up once in the series. It appears inside the the text of the demonic spell-book, The Devil's Welcome, which also contains rare details about the demon's complex history.

In this video I'll be analyzing everything we know about Malthus, including it's ancient history, its recent adventures in The Conjurverse, and the possible future of the of this hellish creature.

Malthus in the movies is based off of two separate "real life" influences. Obviously one of them is the supposedly haunted Annabelle doll inside Ed and Lorraine Warren's museum of cursed objects. The other is Ars Goettia, from the grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon, a spellbook that has details on the lore of several supposed supernatural entities. Many of these have appeared in popular fiction like Annabelle, The Conjuring and Hereditary.

So I'll also compare and contrast the "real life" mythology of Malthus to the evil character we see in the movies: The Conjuring (2013), Annabelle (2014), Annabelle Creation (2017) and Annabelle Comes Home (2019).

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Chapters
0:00 | The Origin of Malthus
2:54 | The Disciples of Ram
6:21 | Haunting The Mullins Family
18:23 | Adoption by The Higgins Family
19:57 | The Summoning Ritual
21:00 | Terrorizing the Form Family
25:51 | Manipulating Camilla and Debbie
27:10 | Annabelle Comes Home
38:53 | Annabelle Escapes? Malthus's Future

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[volupte]

If a demon as old as Malthus can understand how to mess with technology, then surely my grandma will one day stop asking me how to access her voicemail

[thatonedaniel]

I love how demons ask for permission instead of just possessing you straight away, cuz that way you could press charges on them for unlawful entry into your body, but when you agree, there is basically no legal way for you to take

[mateoh]

Malthus is a polite demon which asks for permission to possess somebody but Bathsheba just straight up possesses somebody without even asking

[terrordude]

Am I the only one who belted out laughing during the elevator scene when the doors won't close? It's just so funny to me to picture that malthus would be on the other side pushing the button as the doors close so they reopen.

[SCP.]

Anyone who says that Malthus did nothing wrong obviously missed the part where he intentionally hid the remote under the couch.

[lancercu]

I love that, when the actor playing Ed Warren was talking about the oppression, in the front row of the audience the actual Loraine Warren was there. Bless.

[iwasadeum]

Based on what we've seen, Valak seems to be SIGNIFICANTLY more powerful than Malthus. Valak took the appearance of an entire room of nuns praying (and himself appears as a holy nun figure), survived the blood of Christ being smeared on his face (and even proceeded continue to manifest Valak's physical form after posessing Maurice), physically manipulates crosses and turns them over... And let's not forget, the entirety of the events in The Nun took place in an actual monastery lol.

[glitchyfrog]

4:24 the old lady in the front row on the left is the REAL Lorraine Warren. It took me two years of watching these movies to realize that 😂

[takoyakiiii]

Did I really just sit thru 40 minutes of Conjuring lore? Yes.

Was it worth it? Yes.

[TheKrilicious]

Anabelle: Creation
Anabelle
Anabelle: Comes Home
Anabelle: Goes to College
Anabelle: Abroad
Anabelle: The Humanitarian
Anabelle: Runs for Office
President Anabelle
Anabelle: The Final Chapter

Edit: Never expected this comment to blow up like this 😅

[frauleinloonylove]

I randomly fell down a Conjuring rabbit hole a few days ago, and may I just say that your videos are delightfully binge-worthy?

[KingOfTheSkies-obno]

I actually remember the story of the boyfriend's encounter with Annabelle while the doll was with Camille and Debbie though I don't know if anyone else mentioned it.

According to the real life case that the Warrens dealt with, Annabelle attacked the boyfriend while he was staying over at the apartment several times. She attempted to strangle him at least once while he was sleeping and the last incident before the Warrens were contacted he was left with three claw marks on his back.

[aliciak]

This conjured me faster than Malthus could get into the Annabelle doll.

[rivumrejex]

The fact that the Warren's daughter deals with all the spirits and the demon basically on her own shows that she is a force to be reckoned with!...

[neotheresa]

Can we just respect how boss of a friend to Mia that Evelyn was?? Bitch literally gave her soul up to make sure they got they got their baby back safe and sound. *Absolute legend* . We can all only wish to be that good of a friend

[acactusnamedjosh]

I have another theory for the whole "malthus appearing to have clairvoyance" thing.
What if Malthus just got really good at predicting? It's not hard to manipulate a scared person doing fairly similar actions when you're a spooky demon man. Some head tilts and stuff shouldn't be hard to get right.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Malthus embodies the very word "persistent"

Literally never gives up

[ftblfred]

Is just me who found the “what do you want?” “YOUR SOUL” bit so funny

[Zarastro]

One of the most ridiculous things about the Annabelle franchise is how everyone seems to inexplicably think that that doll is cute. It takes me out of it every time when people pretend that that creepy thing is something you’d want on a display shelf. It would be one thing if it looked like a normal doll and slowly deteriorated through the possession and just rinse and repeated that for every family. But no. It starts out ugly, and ends uglier.

[bricenull]

i swear he makes these movies sound so much better than they are when he’s talking abt them idk why 😭