An Average Movie-Goer’s Review
No Spoilers! If you want spoilers – check out the Spoiler post
I love horror movies and if I’m going to watch them anyway, why not write an entertaining/funny review from the point of view of an average movie-goer and not a professional critic?
Today we’re looking at 2014’s Annabelle.
Doctor John Form gives his pregnant wife, Mia, a porcelain doll as a gift to complete her collection. Unfortunately after a home invasion by a satanic cult, the doll becomes a conduit for something much more deadly.
Overall Review:
If beanie babies are bad and Barbie’s are great then Annabelle is a bulk box of Cabbage Patch dolls but they’re all the same ones.
Annabelle doesn’t bring anything new to the horror genre and that’s not a bad thing. It sticks with what it knows and provides plenty of scares… mostly being jump scares.
There is a noticeable amount of lingering shots and jump scares that don’t add anything to the movie so they end up feeling cheap. For example, (not a spoiler) one jump scare is just a lightning strike in a scene that has nothing to do with lightning or storms. Luckily once the movie picks up and gets further into the story the amount of these kind of cheap shots reduce.
*The real Annabelle doll is not a porcelain doll and actually a Raggedy Ann doll although you can buy a replica of the movie version.
Is Annabelle Scary?
Had to look behind me multiple times, luckily I don’t own any dolls or else I would have burned them all. This is a great spooky time movie if you’re only looking to get scared and not looking for an amazing story.
Cast IMBD