Annabelle

Annabelle

If you are going to make a horror movie, my advice to you would be not to copy 70s horror movies like “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Omen” frame by frame but instead mimic what made them work. There is nothing deep about “Annabelle,” the spinoff of “The Conjuring.” It is scary on a very shallow level because it is not human at all. John R. Leonetti, the director, and Gary Dauberman, the writer, do have enough technical skill between them to put together a few effectively tense scenes here and there that get your heart racing but then they go and throw in that ridiculous climax which is totally misguided and silly and offensive too; so any self-respecting fan of this genre who has been willing thus far to cut some slack for one hour and thirty minutes worth of mediocrity will want their money back tenfold by the end of this movie.

For those keeping track at home and I mention it only because I am still getting hate mail from people years later over my dislike for “The Conjuring”. I really loved James Wan’s ghost story from last year. That was a great leap forward for him as a director where he showed an understanding of sound design as well as physical space or environment as tools used by filmmakers working today; things like that often get overlooked when making modern day horror movies however they’ve clearly been abandoned altogether during the making-of process behind ANNABELLE.

Do you remember the haunted doll that wouldn’t go away after seeing ‘The Conjuring’ last summer? Well Ghostbusters Ed & Lorraine Warren had locked Annabelle up in their basement because they knew how dangerous she truly was inside her glass case! How did Annabelle become an instrument of Satan if she started out as just being really creepy without actually causing much harm though? ‘Annabelle’ tries answering this question against a backdrop provided courtesy the Manson murders & ‘Rosemary’s Baby’.

Some folks might dismiss ‘Annabelle’ out of hand on concept alone that it’s basically a cash grab sequel designed to capitalize off its successful predecessor while still fresh in people’s minds (think “The Crow: City Of Angels” or any other direct-to-video follow-up). However, I would argue there is some good stuff at heart within this movie too; what happens when safe suburbanites start locking doors during 70′s nights where youth culture suddenly turns demonic? You can feel pieces of these ideas throughout ANNABELLE but they never come together.

We find out Annabelle used to belong to this sweet young couple named Mia (Annabelle Wallis) and John (Ward Horton). John gave her as part of their extensive collections doll since she was about to have the firstborn child. Meanwhile, the closer Mia gets to giving birth, a satanic cult breaks into their house and stabs her in the belly before dying themselves.

The female member goes by name Ann Higgins so some drops from her wound onto toy which then starts showing up places where it shouldn’t be while also making creepy happenings occur around new mother like seeing shadows move up stairs or hearing strange sounds during nighttime hours when all should be silent around them except evil wants baby

Thematically, “Annabelle” does not reach a point where it could be exploited as a horror movie. For example, religious characters such as Father Perez (Tony Amendola) may have brought about “The Exorcist” or “The Omen” type undertones which were set around the time when some people believed that Americans had lost touch with their religious institutions. However, this is not what happens in the film. In addition, when nobody believes Mia’s haunting stories; this film could have turned into an awareness of how young mothers are neglected and marginalized where their concerns are dismissed as hormone-related issues provoked by postpartum depression among other factors associated with childbirth but this does not happen either.

There are other problems with the story too: Wallis and Horton make for very uninteresting leads here she mutters her lines while he overacts them; worse still is that the doll steals every scene it appears in! Visually speaking though everything looks too flat panning across doors or rooms just to reveal something at the back is overdone plus sound mixing has been set at levels which grate on viewers’ ears rather than tease out any emotions from them!

It should be more than just another scary movie trying to scare us all into jumping out of our seats; unfortunately though there’s only one truly intense sequence involving storage units situated beneath basements accessed via elevators that refuse to leave these areas once they enter but apart from this thrilling episode everything else seems so weak so learn to ignore such movies when they come on cable channels later.

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