Directed by : John R Leonetti
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322940/
Avoidable horror movie, no where near to the magic of Conjuring.
Read at your own risk, there may be spoilers ahead..
John Gordon (Ward Horton) and his wife Mia (Annabelle Wallis) house is invaded by members of a satanic cult on one night, who attack them. Both survive the attack as the cults get killed but after that incident, a doll that John had brought as gift for his pregnant wife, starts to show supernatural behavior.
Unlike Conjuring or even Insidious, what lacks in Annabelle is a good plot. The scares aren’t bad to be honest, though they are very few sadly. Most of the times what director does is show situations where we see close up of doll or any other suspicious object and we expect something will happen, but nothing happens.
There should had been lot more activities related to doll, which isn’t the case. Also, the plot no where resembles the real story of Annabelle incident. I am assuming (correct me if I am wrong), that the ending showing a lady buying doll for a birthday gift for her girl is the actual story which means there has to be a Annabelle Part2 that shows it, and of course Warrens didn’t get doll locked in this film which is another clue that there has to be another part to the film.
The fire scene is brilliantly edited with a bg that builds the nervousness, also the scary scene where a girl comes running towards the door and the elevator one is the scariest of all. Unfortunately, the climax was a big let-down, just when you thought that okay the movie till now didn’t have that wow factor but we may get it at the end, but not so. Perfect ending would had been, either the scene where Mia mistakenly kills her daughter thinking it to be a doll, or she killing herself to save her daughter. Instead there’s a happy ending that for me totally sucks.
Even performance wise, there’s nothing to talk about. All actors do a decent enough job but not worth to remember.
Annabelle as a horror movie gives few jump scare moments, but still its very much avoidable movie. I would suggest wait for 2nd part if its in making, I got a feeling that would be much better and I hope James Wan directs it.
Verdict : 2/5
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322940/
Avoidable horror movie, no where near to the magic of Conjuring.
Read at your own risk, there may be spoilers ahead..
John Gordon (Ward Horton) and his wife Mia (Annabelle Wallis) house is invaded by members of a satanic cult on one night, who attack them. Both survive the attack as the cults get killed but after that incident, a doll that John had brought as gift for his pregnant wife, starts to show supernatural behavior.
Unlike Conjuring or even Insidious, what lacks in Annabelle is a good plot. The scares aren’t bad to be honest, though they are very few sadly. Most of the times what director does is show situations where we see close up of doll or any other suspicious object and we expect something will happen, but nothing happens.
There should had been lot more activities related to doll, which isn’t the case. Also, the plot no where resembles the real story of Annabelle incident. I am assuming (correct me if I am wrong), that the ending showing a lady buying doll for a birthday gift for her girl is the actual story which means there has to be a Annabelle Part2 that shows it, and of course Warrens didn’t get doll locked in this film which is another clue that there has to be another part to the film.
The fire scene is brilliantly edited with a bg that builds the nervousness, also the scary scene where a girl comes running towards the door and the elevator one is the scariest of all. Unfortunately, the climax was a big let-down, just when you thought that okay the movie till now didn’t have that wow factor but we may get it at the end, but not so. Perfect ending would had been, either the scene where Mia mistakenly kills her daughter thinking it to be a doll, or she killing herself to save her daughter. Instead there’s a happy ending that for me totally sucks.
Even performance wise, there’s nothing to talk about. All actors do a decent enough job but not worth to remember.
Annabelle as a horror movie gives few jump scare moments, but still its very much avoidable movie. I would suggest wait for 2nd part if its in making, I got a feeling that would be much better and I hope James Wan directs it.
Verdict : 2/5
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