Quick Review: Annabelle Comes Home

As it is also Women in Horror Month, I might as well give them some love too.  To that end, a threequel with a mostly-Female Cast and Monster...

The Conjuring Timeline continues to get muddier as we see an extended bit from the Scene in the original Conjuring...and then jump to a year after that.

So the 7th Film takes place between the 1st and 2nd?  Is this the Fast & Furious Franchise now...

The Parents leave the Daughter alone with a Babysitter, who, of course, brings her friend over.  Yes, this is the last time they appear for about an hour...

While the young pair are away, the friend falls to temptation and frees Annabelle...

So, here's where the Film gets...odd.

It basically turns into an Anthology Film...only it is happening concurrently in the same House.  

The actions are all disconnected from each other and could easily be shot at different times.

It comes down to The Bride, which is a 'haunted dress' and not the Kill Bill Character...

The Ferryman, a ghost who kills you/steals your soul if you don't have coins...and constantly drops coins...I guess.

This is confusing for several reasons, the least of which that this is NOT the Annabelle Sequel made by the guy behind Lights Out (that was Creation).

The final- main- creature is a Hellhound, who acts like a werewolf and attacks from smoke.

This Film has a $25-30 million Budget and can't afford more than that?  Lame.

Can the Film (and its Leads) get together and survive the night?  Will I continue to find the Doll not scary?  Does anyone read this third thing?

To find out, watch the Film.  I saw it on HBO, but, you know, you do you.

A decent, but underwhelming adventure.  

As noted, this Film's placement in the Series is confusing.  

So, they got Annabelle in one Film and then nothing happened...until this Film said that a bunch of ghosts/demons broke out between Conjuring Films.  

Oh, does that bear no mention?  

What about their Daughter's friends?  

What about any of these artifacts that are apparently notable?  10 years from now, they will have introduced like 7 more Films, 4 more Demons and covered every random moment of their lives.  

At that point, they'll have four more adventures retconned into every few months of their lives and you'll wonder when they ever slept!  

Joking aside, the Film is kind of a weird experiment.  It's an 'Annabelle' Film, but it is mostly about 'Here's this new thing.'  

Besides the ones mentioned, there's also a TV that shows the possible future, a magic typewriter, an evil wind-up monkey (that doesn't do anything), an evil board game and a random suit of Samurai Armor.  

Is this just a 'throw it all out there and see what sticks' thing?  

Will I be watching Magic TV: A Conjuring Film in 2026?  

Also with all of these haunted objects, this is just a setup for all of those Amityville Sequels with evil mirrors, lamps and such, right?  

The Film has an odd pace, but does eventually get somewhere.  Sadly, that somewhere is a series of disjointed adventures that feel like parts cut from some sort of Conjuring Anthology Show. 

 I hear the 2nd Film is actually good, so maybe I shouldn't have skipped that.  

In the meantime, a quick reminder of what the *actual* face of evil is...

A weird, but endearing mess of a Film.  If you are new to Horror, it will thrill.  If you're a jaded viewer, it's just alright.