Review of Annabelle Comes Home (2019) by Themagickeg — 25 Feb 2022

What a truly disappointing movie. Annabelle comes home is definitely the weakest in the Annabelle series, which is surprising due to the fact that Annabelle was not that good of a movie to begin with. Annabelle was a boring movie by its slow pace of the story and lack of good scares.

However, Annabelle comes home is not just boring it makes absolutely zero sense. Movies based on "real" events like this are only as scary as how true they are to the actual events that happened.

The plot basically reminds me of an 80's slasher movie with terrible acting. Literally the only reason Annabelle escapes is from the stupidity of the characters. Oh, there's a doll here in a case that says do not open.

Well let's open it. Now all these different spirits got out and are possessing some of the characters, there's also one that acts like some kind of dog chasing a man outside. I won't spoil the ending, but it is just such a very stupid plot and has no good pacing or writing.

The movie tries so hard to get as many scares in as possible, which boggles my mind, because the Annabelle and Conjuring films is known for the creepy atmosphere and terrifying pacing and Annabelle comes home lacks both of those things.

There is nothing scary about this movie, all scares are lack luster and predictable. When there is a guy outside who is being chased by some kind of wolf demon, I cannot take the movie seriously because it is trying so hard to get an easy scare, yet it does not succeed.

The rest of the scares are nothing special and predictable if you have watched any of the previous Annabelle or Conjuring movies. The plot boils down to "spirits are coming out because someone opened the Annabelle case.

" The most laughable thing I have ever seen was that they perform an exorcism on a character by playing a video. Was there really no better way to work this in? The writing is so bad which really floored me considering every other movie in the series has great writing.

By itself, without relating it to the other movies in the series, it is just boring. The scares lack pacing and decent execution, and the plot is so contrived and carried by an idiot plot. With the comparison to the other movies, it is by far the worst one, even compared to the Nun.

I feel like the writing and scares lacked because James Wan was not the director of the movie and it is painfully obvious that he did not have much to do with this movie.