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.
songbirdmc
Annabelle just doesn't scare me. Yes, the doll is creepy looking, but not enough, and it doesn't go beyond just the somewhat creepy looking doll. I don't have much to say other than this really isn't a scary movie. There are somewhat scary moments. There's one moment in particular that scared me, BUT that was about 5 seconds out of the whole film. This movie relies heavily on cheap jump scares so if that's not your thing keep that in mind.
tstudstrup
Seriously, the young couple look like Barbie and Ken dolls. He's handsome and boring and she's pretty and boring. And so is this so called horror movie.Apart from the movie itself, being boring and predictable, the couple act moronically throughout the movie.1: why would anybody want a creepy doll like Annabell in the first place, aside from adding it to a creepy doll collection? 2 why would a young attractive woman in her twenties own a creepy doll collection? That's something an old lady who has lived alone would own. That or 20 cats 3: after they move to an apartment after the first hauntings, the doll is in a moving-box even though Ken threw it away. And Barbie is not freaked out by this at all and decides to keep the doll?? 4: after Barbie and Ken and the cliché-priest finds out that the doll is possessed by a demon, they don't destroy the doll, which would probably destroy the demon as well. No Barbie throws it around and yells at it. And the priest takes the doll with him to his church where he is almost killed by the demon.5: as for the exercising couple that is not even in the movie, they're boring as well.The Conjuring movies suck!!And a franchise about that couple just don't work.6: the exercising couple keep the doll in a glass box to keep the demon trapped. Again, destroy the doll and destroy the demon.7: why did this movie get an R-rating? There is no blood in it, no nudity, no swearing. And it's not even scary. It feels like a low budget made for TV horror movie. Apart from a few creepy scenes and only one good scare, this movie isn't worth watching. If you like horror movies with dolls and those movies certainly can be creepy, I recommend Dead Silence. Directed by James Wan that produced and uncredited co-directed this garbage.
terristrial_power
After watching Conjuring, I felt really excited when I knew that Annabelle will have a movie. I'm a horror fan that's why even if I really don't know much about making a movie but still I trust my own point of view if the horror movie that I'm watching is good or awful. Well, let me talk about the movie first, the effects was really great and very much appreciated the scene where the main character was looking at the little girl in the next room then suddenly run to her and show that creepy woman. It was really great. But the main character, the mother. .I don't know but her acting wasn't good at all! Maybe acting skill like Vera Farmiga and the one who acts as mother in the Insidious 1 and 2 (sorry I forgot the name) would really give justice to the movie. Just imagine, there are times in the movie where i really don't see or feel any frightening emotions on the mother's face - I just don't like her acting that truly ruins the movie (in my own point of view) because in all scenes, she has the scene were "supposedly" take the movie into a more scary one but she always fails to do so.However, the movie was good but I will never want to see that actress again in a horror movie because if she does, i will never have a chance even glimpse at it.
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