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- It's not exactly groundbreaking, but this seventh movie in The Conjuring horror franchise is crafty and shrewdly made. It whips up many good scares and has logical, accessible characters.
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Critics Reviews. View All (211) Critics Reviews. Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader Thiis is an uncommonly handsome scary movie, one that respects the audience's intelligence while delivering all...
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- Gary Dauberman
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- Vera Farmiga
Jun 25, 2019 · Annabelle Comes Home. “It scares us just thinking about it.”. Before calling upon its own time-spanning cinematic universe of cursed objects and malevolent spirits, James Wan ’s “ The Conjuring ”—among the most terrifying horror films of the 21st Century—opened with these words back in 2013.
Parents need to know that Annabelle Comes Home is the third Annabelle movie and the seventh film in The Conjuring horror franchise. While the movie isn't especially original, it's well-made and has plenty of intense scares. Expect lots of scary ghosts, demons, and monsters, as well as very…
- Gary Dauberman
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Vera Farmiga, Mckenna Grace, Patrick Wilson
- The latest film about this creepy doll is a fun, ‘70s-era romp that pairs dread with a sense of humor.
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By Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated: Apr 21, 2020 9:21 am
Posted: Jun 24, 2019 9:00 pm
Annabelle Comes Home takes the classic horror trope of Teenage Babysitters in Predicaments, and ups the ante by placing them in Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warrens’ (Vera Farmiga) house full of haunted objects. These familiar elements culminate in a fun, refreshing, even heart-warming entry into the Conjuring franchise. Well-done scares are paired with tension-breaking levity, and we even see a few new monsters (and/or sequel fodder). Annabelle Comes Home should serve as a not-so-serious summer horror flick for anyone looking to laugh a little and jump a lot.
This film picks up shortly after the conclusion of The Conjuring, but the bulk of the story is largely set before The Conjuring 2. Lorraine, the clairvoyant of this ghost-hunting duo, realizes that not only is Annabelle a conduit, she's also a beacon for other spirits. The doll is basically Captain America, yelling whatever the spirit equivalent of “Avengers Assemble!” is into the spirit world.
Now, not all spirits are evil, but some of them are very, very bad. For this reason, Annabelle is the most dangerous thing in the Warrens' collection. Because attempting to destroy the doll will only make everything worse, the Warrens seal her in a consecrated glass box with a sign instructing anyone who somehow gets into their room of cursed objects to never, ever let her out. Obviously, that warning isn’t heeded.
While previous Annabelle movies have stumbled over complicated, murky plots about a demonic entity whose motivations are mostly unclear—aside from its unending quest to collect human souls—Annabelle Comes Home is simple. The house itself is haunted because it's full of haunted stuff, intentionally placed there by adults who investigate hauntings. The characters can't just run away screaming for multiple reasons, but they're also not entirely uninformed about the paranormal. While the entire plot is predicated on one person doing something really stupid, the film explains her motivations.
This clear-cut plotting is welcome in a franchise where I'm still wondering why anyone thought this doll was a totally normal thing to make or own in the first place. I mean, look at it! And remember how in Cabin in the Woods, the basement was also full of haunted things just waiting to be activated? Thanks to Annabelle's beacon status, this film is like that if the characters had managed to activate all of them at once.
The spooky stuff comes on slow—perhaps too slow, even. Once it all ramps up, however, there are some genuinely creative and beautifully shot scares. The myriad entities allow for each character to have their moment while simultaneously setting up possible sequels, a la The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona, and the forthcoming The Crooked Man.
As in previous Conjuring films, the best scares are the subtle ones that build in layers of increasing dread, while the CGI terrors are bigger, but not necessarily better. My favorite scare is a seemingly innocent object that you realize is going to be bad news later on and when it pays off, you’re not sure if you should laugh or hide.
The Conjuring franchise has long suffered from an inability to outperform the very first film in the series, 2013's The Conjuring. In a genre that even a fan like myself can admit is often hit or miss, The Conjuring was a critically acclaimed and truly creepy haunted house movie. That kind of thing can be hard to replicate, which is why it’s so ref...
- Juliet Bennett Rylah
Jun 24, 2019 · Annabelle Comes Home delivers a delightful horror funhouse, embracing The Conjuring favorites in a relentlessly fun and energetic haunted adventure.
Jun 27, 2019 · When paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) leave their daughter Judy (Mckenna Grace) in the care of babysitter Mary (Madison Iseman), it’s not long...
Jun 25, 2019 · The Good: One of the absolute best things with Annabelle Comes Home is the extremely eerie and creepy setting in movie. Director/writer Gary Dauberman did a fantastic job of establishing an atmosphere that immersed audiences into a 1970s world that felt like a total nightmare.
