{"id":18562,"date":"2019-06-24T22:36:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T05:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=18562"},"modified":"2019-06-24T22:36:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T05:36:23","slug":"annabelle-comes-home-but-doesnt-bring-many-chills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=18562","title":{"rendered":"‘t Bring Many Chills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It has only been two months since the release of The\nCurse of La Llorona<\/em>, the last film in The Conjuring<\/em> universe. This\ntime out, the makers head revert to one of the series’ most iconic threats with\nAnnabelle Comes Home<\/em>. Yet while promising to deliver some familiar faces\ndoing battle with the forces of evil, the movie actually focuses on elements\nthat won’t be of nearly as much interest. Ever wanted to see a movie that\nfocuses primarily on the babysitter of two renowned paranormal investigators?\nDidn’t think so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The film is set in the early 70s and follows Lorraine Warren\n(Vera Farmiga) and her husband Ed (Patrick Wilson) who collect Annabelle and\nlock it up in a special room in their home. For those unaware, the title\ncharacter is a doll imbibed with a violent and inhuman spirit. Some time later,\nthe couple head out for the weekend, leaving their 10-year-old daughter Judy\n(McKenna Grace) alone with teenage babysitter Mary Ellen (Madison Iseman). When\nthe guardian’s pal Daniela (Katie Sarife) decides to break into the quarantined\nroom to try to communicate with her deceased father, she inadvertently frees\nAnnabelle and some other ghosts. The girls, along with friendly teen neighbor\nBob (Michael Cimino) are forced to endure the onslaught of supernatural events\nthat follow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The good news is that the movie is well shot and features a\nfew nice images amidst the general nonsense. Reflections of Annabelle in glass are\nused to good effect and when the more explicit attacks begin there are a couple\nof nice angles featured. One involves the camera tilting sideways as a character\nsearches for the doll in the house, and the most impressive, captured from\noverhead, follows a youngster fleeing in terror through the hallways of the\ndomicile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additionally, the presence early on of Farmiga and Wilson does\nadd some legitimacy to the proceedings. Unfortunately, they’re only present in\nthe intro and final scene of the film, leaving the bulk of material focused on\nthe kids. While the youngsters are likable, they are forced into doing dopey\nthings for no reason other than to further the plot. Despite the obvious presence\nof evil, the kids almost never seem interested in turning on any lights or\ngetting them to work after they fail. Their behavior and actions become\nincreasingly silly. This doesn’t look like the biggest home in the universe,\nand many appearances of evil dolls and sinister spirits result in screams and\nwails from the separated leads, yet amazingly, they never seem to hear each\nother in duress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Truthfully, the ghosts don’t do much for the first half\nexcept appear and disappear, rattle cabinets, and leave written queries for the\nchildren that don’t actually make much sense. Of course, Annabelle’s evil plan\nis to find a soul to possess (and let’s face it, anyone who has seen any of\nthese movies knows that this is always the doll’s intention). Yet the eventual\nreveal only leaves one wondering that if the malevolent spirit wanted a human\nbody so badly, why would they announce it to potential victims? Or why not take\nthe many opportunities presented to them much earlier to take control of a\nhuman body instead of just scaring them a dozen times first? Instead of\nclarifications, things get increasingly absurd as the kids try to fight off assaults\nthroughout the night after aimlessly wandering around and investigating\nthreatening noises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For any future screenwriters out there, it’s also probably not the wisest of ideas to have your characters say things like, “This is stupid,” more than once, for it eventually begins to put the same negative thoughts into the minds of viewers. It isn’t much better for the series to pit a 10-year-old and a trio of teens against what is stated as one of the most dangerous and horrifying forces of evil in the franchise’s universe. For if the children win, then it minimizes any sense of fear or danger that viewers will be contending with in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In summary, the production values are fine, but there isn’t\nmuch else here that viewers won’t have seen delivered more effectively in other\nfranchise installments. Yes, the movie is slightly more effective than the previous\nLa Llorona film or The Nun<\/em>, but Annabelle Comes Home<\/em> is still\nsomething of a rehash that gets sillier and sillier as it progresses. In the\nend, the Warren’s wallpaper choices\nmay actually be scarier than any ghost or demonic spirit featured in this particular\ntale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has only been two months since the release of The Curse of La Llorona, the last film in The Conjuring universe. This time out, the makers head revert to one of the series’ most iconic threats with Annabelle Comes Home. Yet while promising to deliver some familiar faces doing battle with the forces of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[197,1504,1505,1506,1507,6026,8940,9319,11522,12895,13592,13767,15804,16290,18035,18872,20317,23724],"class_list":["post-18562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-197","tag-annabelle-comes-home","tag-annabelle-comes-home-film-review","tag-annabelle-comes-home-movie-review","tag-annabelle-comes-home-review","tag-doll","tag-haunting","tag-horror","tag-katie-sarife","tag-madison-iseman","tag-mckenna-grace","tag-michael-cimino","tag-patrick-wilson","tag-possessed-doll","tag-sequel","tag-spirits","tag-the-conjuring","tag-vera-farmiga"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}