Review of Annabelle Comes Home (2019) by Player2-Water — 12 Jul 2019

E-Value: 7.

Acting: 8.

Plot: 7.

The infamous and evil doll, Annabelle, returns to the big screen once again for the seventh instalment in The Conjuring Universe and it serves as a sequel to 2014’s Annabelle and 2017’s Annabelle: Creation. This instalment also marks the return of famous paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren including their daughter, Judy Warren.

Taking place directly after the prologue and before the main story of The Conjuring, Ed and Lorraine Warren took custody of the Annabelle doll from the two nurses, whom the doll terrorised them. The Warrens believed that the doll was too dangerous and they locked the doll in a sacred glass to contain the evil and place it in the artifacts room within their house.

After the events of The Conjuring, the Warrens are leaving town for a night to investigate a case and they left a babysitter named Mary Ellen (Iseman) to look after Judy (Grace) while they are away. Mary’s friend, Daniela Rios (Sarife), unexpectedly shows up at the house to join her friend. While Mary and Judy are outside, Daniela breaks into the artifacts room.

Ignoring the warning sign inside the artifacts room, she touches all of the haunted artifacts and opens the sacred glass where the Annabelle doll is locked in. As she hears Mary and Judy returning, she quickly left the room but she forgets to lock the sacred glass. Thanks to Daniela’s actions, the three girls are about to have one hell of a night and horror experience that they will never forget.

Although it is great to see Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprising their role since 2016’s The Conjuring 2, you should not expect them to play the main role because they only supporting characters and only appear during the beginning and at the end of the movie. Judy Warren is the main character in this movie and it is also great to have her in the main role since she only has minor roles in the first two Conjuring movies.

Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman and Katie Sarife have done a great job with their performance similar to how the casts of Annabelle: Creation have done with their performance. The three young actresses really put in a lot of effort into their acting which is very impressive and not too bland.

Gary Dauberman, who made his directorial debut and served as writer and executive producer of the previous instalments, has done a great job in making this movie real good. Being attached as director for this movie is a great choice because Dauberman has the most experience in this horror franchise. The movie would have end up worst if he is not the director.

Although some jump scares are quite predictable and you can see it coming from afar, the jump scares are not being overuse just to make the movie scary like most of the today’s horror movies. While the movie is certainly not scary like the first two Conjuring and Annabelle: Creation, at least Dauberman tried his best to make movie look fun and enjoyable. While this movie does not beat Annabelle: Creation in terms of quality, this movie is still better than the first Annabelle.