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- ‘Surviving R. Kelly: The Final Chapter’ Trailer Chronicles Survivor Testimony and Final Verdict
- James Gunn Debunks Report About The Batman Joining the DCU
- Movie Review: “Annabelle Comes Home” is a mildly entertaining entry in “The Conjuring” universe
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Cameron’s environmentalist interests remain the backbone of the larger Avatar plot, and his heavy employment of familiar character archetypes and story devices feels like a clear message that the Na’vi good guys and military baddies are more important as a collective than individually. And if we’re talking archetypal characters, we have to talk about Cameron’s decision to revive Stephen Lang’s Miles Quaritch as The Way of Water’s primary villain. Quaritch’s hyper-macho drill sergeant persona felt dated in 2009, little more than a vessel for all the worst aspects of Avatar’s themes of colonialism, but Lang’s scene-chewing enthusiasm always kept the character interesting. Quaritch gets his second chance at revenge thanks to a Na’vi body of his own, and his newfound physical prowess gives him even more swagger than he already had.
Unexpectedly, Mary Ellen’s friend Daniela shows up on the pretext of joining Judy’s birthday celebration, although she’s really pursuing her own agenda. Still grieving over the recent death of her father in a traffic accident, Daniela has come seeking spiritual reconnection with her dad, convinced that the Warrens’ paranormal expertise can provide guidance. She attempts to interpret their work by sneaking into the locked artifacts room after stealing the key from Ed’s study and proceeds to examine closely and even touch many of the tainted objects stored there for safekeeping. The picture just rehashes the same stuff this series has already done multiple times before.
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It’s embarrassingly backwards and makes the whole film feel disjointed. A big mistake as once free, the spirt of Annabelle Mullins begins to cause chaos and unleashes several other spirits that the Warrens had previously defeated. Tell us your favorite albums, games, movies, and TV shows of the year in...
Annabelle Comes Home is one of the weaker entries in the series, but it still delivers some good scares. A worthy addition to the "Conjuring" universe, this is the best of the three "Annabelle" movies because it's an old school horror film modest in scope, yet high on scares and fun. Along with his cinematographer Michael Burgess, Dauberman swiftly utilizes every nook and cranny of the Warren house for maximum spookiness—predictably, the well-choreographed scenes in the artifact room are the film’s strongest. You would think that Annabelle Comes Home, the seventh film in The Conjuring universe and the third Annabelle film, is doomed to fail.
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If only the half-baked story could also meet our expectations, or at least match the logic of the previous two “Annabelle” films. Annabelle Comes Home is gifted with what might be the ultimate haunted house set-up. Chuck in the well-worn ‘baby babysitter’ trope, and Annabelle Comes Home should be a Friday night funhouse blast. It wasn’t particularly scary, and there wasn’t anything particularly memorable about the characters.
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Movie Review: “Annabelle Comes Home” is a mildly entertaining entry in “The Conjuring” universe
Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners. 💌 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter with movie recommendations available to stream. Chris reviews the next installment in The Conjuring Universe; Annabelle Comes Home. Hilariously, the film will have an in-your face fright such as the Bride running at a character with a knife. Then shortly afterwards attempt to create subtly with something moving on a table. As if that could possibly work after seeing a spirit running and shrieking.
The most things it failed to do is to keep the viewers' engagement with the characters. Some of these characters is lacking strong qualities of dimention in their traits. It did not deliver the scare factor, and if it did, the execution is not strong enough.
‘Annabelle Comes Home’ movie review — Ghost adventures in babysitting
From there, the movie is a twisted and terrifying haunted house horror as each of the girls in the house — and Mary Ellen’s suitor Bob — are harrassed by the unleashed entities. Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren lock the possessed doll in the artifacts room in their house. But when the doll awakens the room's evil spirits, it soon becomes an unholy night of terror for the couple's 10-year-old daughter, her friends and their young baby sitter.
Regular Conjuringverse visitors know that the antique doll resides deep in the Warrens’ basement, a virtual museum of cursed totems and creepy-as-fuck playthings. Casual moviegoers can guess that someone will eventually go down into that basement, ignore the sign that demands no one open the case under any circumstances and rile up the bad-juju inventory. So when the Warrens go out of town for a job and leave their daughter Judy under the care of a teenage neighbor named Mary Ellen , it’s only a matter of time before some curious underage character messes with things they shouldn’t.
Kevin Williamson before him, has a knack for crafting relatable, young characters who you come to care for before they’re tortured by murderous entities. Focusing on the key characters and establishing their goodwill and bonds with each other is very important to the overall integrity of the movie and gives it’s a sense of sweetness that isn't often found in such abundance in these movies. The problem is that all the time spent on building those relationships can’t help but slow the movie down and feel like it’s hopping from moment to moment as the movie everyone involved was envisioning from the get-go waits in the wings and has trouble coming to the surface. (Long story.) Just don’t call it “possessed,” however, if you’re around paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren . “Demons don’t possess things, only people,” they declare, before their car breaks down, late at night, in front of a fogged-in graveyard, right by a grisly car accident.
But “Annabelle Comes Home” proves it’s perhaps time to put the genie back in its bottle and bring this particular creepy doll series to a decisive close. Annabelle Comes Home takes the classic horror trope of Teenage Babysitters in Predicaments, and ups the ante by placing them in Ed and Lorraine Warrens’ house full of haunted objects. These familiar elements culminate in a fun, refreshing, even heart-warming entry into the Conjuring franchise.
I love diving into the world of the Warren families' 'room of evil things.' This made me want to see a movie about their daughter Judy, who already sees ghosts. Dauberman also has a great deal of fun with the forbidden room and all its various, monstrous treasures. Little Judy, who seems to have picked up some of her mother's clairvoyance, is having trouble at school because of her parents' work and can't seem to make friends.
Thankfully, director/cowriter Gary Dauberman, a veteran of both the series and things-that-go-bump-in-the-psyche storytelling understands that self-serious is not the name of the game this time. If Annabelle Comes Home is the best of the three films to date — a low-ish bar, but still — it’s because he’s well aware that is simplistic story works best as a cross between a haunted house and a carnival funhouse. A cute boy briefly enters the picture, as does some sort of hellhound creature.
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Later, while trying to cheer Judy up and prepare for her upcoming birthday, a friend of Mary Ellen named Daniela arrives. She pretends as though she wants to hang out but is actually more interested in the Warren’s haunted artefact room. Having lost her father in a car crash recently, she is hoping to contact him.
While the filmmaking displayed on a technical level allows the film to achieve heightened production values, this one can't help but play exclusively in the realm of cheap thrills. An old-fashioned film that doesn't rely on gore to sell the thrills. Instead there's lots of laboured breathing, wide eyed disbelief, low-fi drive-in thrills and characters you want to survive. Tap "Sign me up" below to receive our weekly newsletter with updates on movies, TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes podcast and more.
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