Review of Annabelle (2014) by Oopsies — 17 Oct 2016

Annabelle was overall, an okay movie. Except, just like a lot of movies, the movie was nothing like anybody expected. The movie trailer made the movie seem like a really scary horror movie, but in reality, I personally didn’t think that the movie was scary at all. I won’t go as far as to say that I didn’t like the movie, because I thought it was a pretty good movie, it was just nothing that I wanted it to be.

I was expecting the movie to be scary, and I think that the movie definitely had the potential of being a super scary movie, but I think the makers held back on too much instead of just letting the scary out. The director (John R. Leonetti) definitely had very good ideas for the movie, but they must’ve pieced everything together wrong, and left pieces out, which in the end, made the movie not scary.

The main characters consisted of Annabelle Wallis, who played as Mia the mother that collected dolls, Ward Horton, who played as Mia’s husband, Tony Amendola, who was “Father Perez”, and Alfre Woodard, who played as Mia’s friend, Evelyn.

They included scenes that would be typically scary and somehow managed to make them not scary at all. The only thing that really makes you scared is the fact that the music gets so loud during the movie, trying to freak you out. Does it work?, maybe a little. I gave this movie a 4/10, because of the disappointment you are left with at the end.