SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

nathanielqwilson I thought the Conjuring was terrible. This is...OK?There's not much to say: it's a generic horror movie of a kind we've seen a thousand times. Very on the nose and the mystical black lady doesn't help.It's not easy to really root for Mr and Mrs Wholesome USA...And another thing: the original Annabelle is way scarier. Admittedly this Annabelle is the more creepy looking in her own right and I would NOT like to go to sleep in a room with her in but when contextualized into a horror movie, scary looking things are not scary. You need to use harmless looking things. So the used Raggedy Ann concept would have been much better.

CinemaClown A spin-off of The Conjuring that also serves as a prequel to the events that unfolded in that 2013 feature, Annabelle is an absolutely bland, banal & boring example of its genre that doesn't pack an ounce of old-school thrills that James Wan's film revelled in and only exists to cash in on the original's success.

bravosiguenza They try so hard to creep you out with the doll's face (personally I don't find it scary at all) that you just get used to it. I mean, you already know the doll from the posters, trailers, previous installments, etc. But still they insist on relying on the "creepy" doll to engage -and try to scare- their audience. The problem with so much emphasis on that prop: a forsaken story whose linearity fails to build tension, and also makes the plot easily predictable.Acting was bad (specially that of Mia). Additionally, we have plot holes. For instance, there were no solid basis on why Anabelle decided to possess that specific doll and haunt that specific family. Would have she attacked the Forms had not John enterd her parents' house that night? If the demon's ultimate goal was to "devour" (?) a soul, why waste so much time haunting a mother and not just take away the baby as soon as possible? Also, why on earth would Evelyn get so deeply involved with that family to the point of taking her own life to save the baby?Maybe there are more unanswered questions, but my point has been made.

destinylives52 Riding on the coattails of "The Conjuring" and cashing in on that horror movie, "Annabelle" succeeds when it comes to making money, but falls on its face as a horror movie. But I'm getting ahead of myself…let's start with the story. A man buys a super creepy doll for his pregnant wife — she collects dolls, even ugly, creepy ones that would give Charles Manson nightmares — and then they get attacked by cultists. A female cultist named Annabelle is killed by the police, and her body is found cradling the creepy doll. Does the couple move out? Nope. Do they get rid of the doll that was cradled by the serial killer woman during her final moments? Nope. Do creepy, evil things start to happen soon after that? Yup! The clueless couple eventually accept that they are being haunted, and after befriending a woman (played by Alfre Woodard) who has some experience with the supernatural, they figure out what is haunting them, and why. How to stop the powerful, malevolent force…well, that's not so easy.My most memorable, movie moment of "Annabelle" is the scene when Annabelle levitates, and the evil force that is making her rise is shown."Annabelle" is told with a leisurely pace — many would call it boring and slow, but I didn't mind it too much because it revealed much of the mindset of the female half of the couple, and that mindset is crucial to the finale. What I did have a problem with is that the scares were too few and far between; and the Woodard character did something at the end which I found to be out of character. Although there was a scene in the second act that was supposed to set up what Woodard did at the end, it still made no sense after I analyzed Woodard's words and actions. It just completely took me out of the movie and my mind was screaming "Shenanigans!" Mannysmemorablemoviemoments