Review of Annabelle (2014) by Jaro2096 — 10 Nov 2014

What a way to ruin a a franchise ...

Annabelle the prequel to the successful scary film " The Conjuring". Was expected to be good movie because of how the "The Conjuring" was. But in reality this movie is really bad. This movie has three simple problems the first of all was the the expectancy , the second one is the director and finally the script.

The first problem was the expectation had created with "The Conjuring", the thing that a lot of people did not knew when they first the trailer is that this movie is not directed by James Wan the original director of " The Conjuring" and second this movie it is not based on true events, meaning that the whole script is fake and it was sold as if it was based on true events.

The second problem is the director that was choose to direct this movie, the guy ( John R. Leonetti) that directed this film was the same guy that directed Mortal Kombat: Annihilation also another franchise killer. Meaning that he doesn't know how to direct since he is a brilliant cinematographer that is mainly used by James Wan on his movies.

The third thing is a really bad script made by really bad writers that make their characters stupid, since their decisions are not logical comparing to what a normal human being would do in that situation. For example when the whole plot starts with a couple sleeping hearing scrams and the lights go out on the house next door and instead of calling the police they go and help because that's logical and eventually the wife gets stabbed. This is just one example of this stupid script that doesn't make sense.

I would say that Annabelle is just a stupid and a bunch of noise that is suppose to create a jump scare with one good scare scene. In my opinion I would say that this film is not a franchise killer since I have really good expectations from "The Conjuring 2" a film that will be directed by James Wan, a guy that understands how to make horror films. Annabelle is 5 out of 10.