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stuffp
Keeping it Light
Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:06 am Posts: 11204 Location: Bright Falls
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Annabelle Comes Home
Quote: Annabelle Comes Home is a 2019 American supernatural horror film based on the legend of the Annabelle doll. It serves as a sequel to 2014's Annabelle and 2017's Annabelle: Creation, and as the seventh installment in the Conjuring Universe franchise. The film is written and directed by Gary Dauberman in his directorial debut, from a story co-written with James Wan. Wan also produced the film with Peter Safran. The film stars Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, and Katie Sarife, along with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who reprise their roles as Ed and Lorraine Warren from the Conjuring Universe.
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Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:29 am |
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thompsoncory
Rachel McAdams Fan
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:13 am Posts: 14544 Location: LA / NYC
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Re: Annabelle Comes Home
Decent performances but I found this mostly dull and repetitive. The opening with Ed and Lorraine was great though.
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Tue Jun 25, 2019 11:40 pm |
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Re: Annabelle Comes Home
This might be my favorite Conjuring movie. It is so fun and old-fashioned. The setup is campfire-story classic: autumn, 1970s, a babysitter-in-peril, a haunted house... It is one well-calibrated, bump-in-the-night set piece after another, with a few cool new Conjuring-universe spirits and a lot of style. The scare tactics are also nicely diverse; sure, it goes to the well of loud and abrupt jolts, but it also generates tension by denying the obvious scare (i.e. Lorraine holding the map in the prologue, obscuring what's beyond the car window from our view, priming us for a ghoul to pop up there), as well as having several eerie moments in which a specter is quietly in the corner of the frame. The three lead actresses are very charismatic and sympathetic. It has the usual, fairly cheesy franchise epilogue where everyone sits in a sunlit room and compares lessons learned and religious convictions (and Ed Warren pulls out his acoustic guitar), but I was not too bothered by it here.
And...
B+ 1. Annabelle Comes Home 2. The Nun 3. Annabelle: Creation
B 4. The Conjuring 2 5. The Conjuring 6. Annabelle 7. The Curse of La Llorona
Very consistently decent franchise.
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Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:11 pm |
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Magic Mike
Wallflower
Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:53 am Posts: 34876 Location: Minnesota
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Re: Annabelle Comes Home
thompsoncory wrote: Decent performances but I found this mostly dull and repetitive. Yeah saw it Tuesday night and that was exactly how I found it. So boring. Could have been fun if it had a better filmmaker behind it. I swear they aren't even trying with these Conjuring Universe movies. Creation was a bright spot but the first Annabelle, The Nun, and this are mostly garbage. It is a slight step up from The Nun though. It's at least well-made, acted, etc... C-
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Thu Jun 27, 2019 6:28 am |
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 23778 Location: Classified
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Re: Annabelle Comes Home
This is the best of CCU spinoff movies, though still below both of the main entries. The Warren's daughter facing off against her parent's greatest foes is a strong concept and leads to a lot of creepyfun scenes. I just wish they could have gotten there without resorting to the catalyst of Dumb Frustrating Character does Dumb Frustrating Things to get the ball moving. Especially when Dumb Frustrating Character is the only one who gets a real story arc in the movie.
I still give it huge points for coming up with some good scare scenes though. Both Creation and The Nun just rolled back the same sequence over and over (lets walk slowly towards a ghost and THEN IT POPS OUT FROM THE SIDE), but ACH plays with the enviroment way more.
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Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:47 pm |
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 23778 Location: Classified
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Re: Annabelle Comes Home
The Conjuring 2 The Conjuring
Annabelle Comes Home Annabelle
Annabelle Creation The Nun
Haven't seen La Llarona.
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Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:48 pm |
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zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 20345 Location: Where they shot Knock at the Cabin
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Re: Annabelle Comes Home
Hated this. It was super dull. Maybe it would be better if I'd seen the rest of the franchise. I only saw this cuz my friend wanted to. At least I got to have a drink. Though now I've seen three movies about dolls in one week, haha.
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Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:36 pm |
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