Daniela? Well, she's trapped in the artifact room and being terrorized by a monkey that plays drums. Kinda like the chicken that gets it here.Įverybody gets attacked by different spirits, like Bob dealing with the hellhound, Mary Ellen getting dragged away by Charon the boatman or whatever we want to call the ferryman with coins on his eyes and Judy has to deal with Annabelle herself, who just up and got in bed with her. I've been paying for it ever since the second one.Īnyways, this dumb teenage girl is like, maybe my dad will talk to me through something in this room, which means that Annabella is able to gather all of the other spirits and attack, spirits who I will eventually pay to see their own movies and buy their DVD's, like a ferryman, a bride, a samurai, a hellhound called the Black Shuck - no, not the song by The Darkness - and, of course, a copy of Milton Bradley's Feeley Meeley game.Īctually, the Black Shuck is based on a famous Warren case - which is the same as me saying that I have cases when all I'm doing is lying about ghosts - where a werewolf was killing local livestock. That's all these movies have become, a kickoff to the next film which introduces the next character which tells us all about the next character for the next one. Finally, she uses an artifact called the Mourner's Bracelet, which certainly will play a part in another film.
She ends up touching everything and leaving Annabelle's container wide open, showing that not only is she a moron, but she also has no idea how to read.
She was the driver and blames herself, which brings her into the Warren's hidden sanctum of the scariest and most sinister of all occult objects. Mary Ellen's friend Daniela decides to visit the Warren house, as she wants to speak to the dead, specifically her father, who recently died after a car crash. Sadly, I'll probably be there the first night with the vague hope that this will finally be the one that equals the original. He's Father Michael Morrisey, playing by Gary-7, who will probably get involved in a later The Conjuring movie. Judy is able to see all manner of ghosts and spirits, like a priest that keeps following her and later protecting her.
Before they even get it there, it brings all manner of hell after them in a pre-title sequence that really has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.Īfter Father Gordon - coming back in another call back to the first two The Conjuring movies - blesses a box for the evil doll, we fast-forward a year to the Warrens bringing in Mary Ellen (Madison Iseman, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) to watch their daughter Judy (McKenna Grace, who has made something of a career of playing the young versions of characters - she was young Captain Marvel, as well as the child versions of Sabrina on the new Netflix series and Theodora Crain in The Haunting of Hill House). demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren - back again at least for a brief cameo to drag you into the theater - are bringing the possessed Annabelle back to their home. Original creator James Wan is the other writer as well as the producer.īack in 1971. It's co-written and directed by Gary Dauberman, who wrote the remake of It, as well as Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation and The Nun. I even sat through the barely connected The Curse of La Llorona. Maybe I've seen too many of The Conjuring films now - seven in total with several more on the way, such as a sequel to the excoriable The Nun and The Crooked Man.
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 4 / 10 / 10 Annabelle wastes $10