Annabelle
A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.
14 January 1976, Morristown, New Jersey, USA
16 February 1978, Houston, Texas, USA
26 March 1990, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 October 1980, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1984, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
24 August 1951, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
10 January 1947, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
12 November 1934, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
8 November 1952, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
January 23, 2015
We could chat all day about how "Annabelle" lifted (even stole) bits from better films. But, that would take away from the net effect of this evil doll movie. "Annabelle" is a very good horror film, originality be damned.
October 13, 2014
The script, by Gary Dauberman, is a clichéd mess, lacking humor and surprises. But Leonetti stages some fright-worthy sequences ...
April 08, 2016
In the hands of a better creative team, an all-Annabelle film might have been a grand slam. Here it's a bloop single, narrowly avoiding a tag out on the basepaths.
January 20, 2015
Watching Annabelle is like watching a movie you've seen a dozen times before, just with different actors and slight variations on the same scare tactics.
February 26, 2016
Annabelle, at its heart, feels like it should be part of an anthology collection, clocking in at twenty or thirty minutes, instead of at feature length.
October 16, 2014
Quality is often irrelevant in a horror movie; shock is the key.
October 03, 2014
What we mostly get in Annabelle is what we've gotten from so many other horror films: creaking floors, funky white-robed figures, home appliances that go off on their own, mysterious writing that shows up in mysterious places.
March 15, 2015
Annabelle's problems are legion but let's start with the bait-and-switch hook that promises a killer doll and instead delivers a shadowy gargoyle.
October 03, 2014
Although [Leonetti] covers no new ground - things are largely predictable - he pays tribute to horror classics such as "Rosemary's Baby."
January 13, 2015
For much of its running time, Annabelle is so bereft of ideas for scare tactics that when the doll isn't involved, it's hard to differentiate it from any other domestic horror movie that's ever come out.
October 03, 2014
Annabelle, an effective prequel to horror pastiche The Conjuring, surpasses its predecessor simply by virtue of occasionally being scary.
