A.C.’s Review: Last year a movie came out called THE CONJURING. It dealt with a real life husband and wife team of paranormal investigators called the Warrens. This movie featured the Warrens dealing with a family living in a haunted house. Based on a true story I suspect 99% of it was embellished by Hollywood but that is neither here nor there. I bring this up because in the movie the Warrens have a collection of items they have amassed on their cases…sort of like the trophy room you use to see in Batman comic books.
Instead of a giant penny like Batman has they have instead in a glass
case with a warning never to open a doll named Annabelle that is said to be cursed. The doll proved so
terrifying in its brief appearance an entire prequel has been constructed
around it and that is this movie.
In the film a pair of expectant
parents living in the seaside community of Santa
Monica in the year 1970 soon have
their world thrown upside down. When a pair of cult members go all Helter
Skelter and murder their next door neighbors in a satanic ritual a demon is unleashed
and takes up residence inside of the woman’s doll named Annabelle. The rest of the movie is the terrorizing of the couple
as the demon attempts to claim a soul even that of the newborn baby is
possible.
While not particularly scary to me
I found the movie a passable way to spend the afternoon. I was more interested
in it for its early 1970’s setting because I like to see the cloths and
automobiles again from childhood. The actors are serviceable and the biggest
name in the movie is Alfre Woodard who is obviously there to pick
up an easy paycheck but she had the best role in the movie for what it was.
Best Scene: The attack by the cult
members early in the movie.
A.C.'s Rating: DVD
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