Annabelle (The Conjuring spin-off)

whirlpool

"Annabelle"

10/10/14

A film about the possessed doll from "The Conjuring."

Anyone looking forward to this?

Meanwhile The Conjuring 2 is scheduled for release in October 2015.

Hard not to look forward to any film from the writer of Bloodmonkey, In the Spider's Web and Swamp Devil, and from the director of the cinematic masterpiece that is Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.

Seriously though, the Conjuring was one of the best horrors of the past decade, nothing strikingly original but one with genuine tension and a real nice sense of foreboding so I'm hoping that this will at least be a diverting distraction for Halloween.

Whatsisname

Saw the trailer for this in the cinema before watching "Deliver Us From Evil" last week. Looks like it'll take off from where The Conjuring left off, as in, me bricking my pants that is.

candy-gal1

All I can say is the trailer itself scared the crap out of me :eek:

Will have to go see this so methinks!

Loughc

candy-gal1 wrote: »

All I can say is the trailer itself scared the crap out of me :eek:

Will have to go see this so methinks!

Yep agreed. The trailer made me jump a few times too! Eeek!

nix

kinda hoping all of the good parts werent in the trailer

wowy

Saw the trailer the other night.

Nope. No way. Nada.

Loughc

wowy wrote: »

Saw the trailer the other night.

Nope. No way. Nada.

Boards meet up it is. Hahaha.

jaykhunter

Couldn't agree more Darko. I loved the Conjuring but with that director, and I thought this trailer looks poor. I hope to hear good things about Anabelle as it's off my radar at the moment. Maybe I'm asking too much/have heightened expectations after the Conjuring.

Not2Good

The Conjuring was great but we ve had Chucky the possessed doll before, also bride of Chucky and Chucky Versus 'Toy Story'....

jaykhunter wrote: »

Couldn't agree more Darko. I loved the Conjuring but with that director, and I thought this trailer looks poor. I hope to hear good things about Anabelle as it's off my radar at the moment. Maybe I'm asking too much/have heightened expectations after the Conjuring.

Tipsy McSwagger

The Conjuring was awful. Seriously it had one decent scene and the rest was bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang while ripping off every horror film ever made. Reminds me of the masters quote,

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

Not2Good

I am also looking forward to the The Conjuring 2. I presume it is the same cast?Thankfully now days they put an effort in to some sequels. Hopefully this will be a good follow up

kryogen

Very like a book I read years ago, kiddie horror stuff probably? Goosebumps or something, can't quite place it but it is a very familiar theme certainly......

razorblunt

That little girl to woman reveal was pretty cool ...

Zombienosh

Seen this yesterday in Spain, I thought was really good, If you're a fan of Wan's other work, Conjuring, Insidious etc. You'll know what to expect, There's not much outside of the formula but it works well. I'd rate this a lot higher than some his earlier work and the Insidious films.

One of the best scenes is

The basment devil scene or when it looks like the doll is moving but he is holding it.

Not2Good

Off to see it tonight although creepy dolls give me the , well, the creeps ….

….. they still give me the creeps, facing my fear(!) didn't help, film was ok but slow but didn't follow all of the horror film clichés …. worth watching though I think ….

jaykhunter

Has anyone seen both this and Wan's other possessed doll film, Dead Silence? How's it stack up? I really enjoyed the Conjuring but the trailer for this is quite poor.

mark13

jaykhunter wrote: »

Has anyone seen both this and Wan's other possessed doll film, Dead Silence? How's it stack up? I really enjoyed the Conjuring but the trailer for this is quite poor.

It's a poor effort, the trailer gives away the best bits, I didn't watch it until after I'd seen the movie and it gives away ALL of the major scares.

Also it's derivative to an extreme. If you've seen Child's Play etc you've seen it all before. Cliche after cliche, for instance he throws the doll in the bin when they're moving house, somehow it ends up in one of the boxes they packed...brilliant.

"The Babadook" movie is out in 2 weeks and is getting great reviews, so I'd recommend holding out for that if you have a craving for a horror movie, this is just a cheap cash-in.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Going to see this tonight. Scares, I have em. We went to see the conjuring last year and it was the most scary thing I've ever seen.

yermandan

I thought this was absolutely fantastic, scary as **** and an unusually good script for a horror!! 9/10

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Good lord, that was terrifying. I didn't enjoy it at all. I thought the entire time that Evelyn was possessed

kryogen

jaykhunter wrote: »

Has anyone seen both this and Wan's other possessed doll film, Dead Silence? How's it stack up? I really enjoyed the Conjuring but the trailer for this is quite poor.

Didn't go to see Anabelle, but Dead Silence was hilarious!

Was that supposed to be a horror? Genuinely funny film

Haunted Angel

I thought the Conjuring was one of the best horror films i'd seen in years so was expecting this to be very good.
I agree with previous posters that the trailer gives too much away and I was a little disappointed but hey it's still worth watching and a few jumpy bits did put the heart outta me! :P

FourFourRED

The conjuring was really scary! Definitely want to see this tomorrow night

JaMarcusHustle

Saw this tonight. Very similar to the Conjuring. Enjoyable, but I wouldn't say hugely terrifying.

However, and a big however at that, there is one scene that I feel is the best scene in recent mainstream horror.

The elevator/stairs scene, and in particular where the Demon is sitting at the bottom of the stairs looking up at her.

That was particularly scary and one of my favourite scenes in any horror movie. It was too much for a group of girls in front of us who got up and left straight away, not to return. A few people actually left shortly after that scene.

As I said, I enjoyed it. I would definitely rank it above the likes of Sinister, Insidious etc. (I loved Insidious up until the shíte ending). Probably better than The Conjuring overall too.

jaykhunter

Is there much that ties Annabelle to The Conjuring, or is it a possessed puppet film James Wan rejiggered into a Conjuring tie-in because it was a success?

The Bowling Alley

Absolutely terrible film. Way too many close ups of a doll where nothing actually happens.

eoin1539

I enjoyed conjuring and thought it was good so I'm gonna go see this to :pac:

Chris_Heilong

Not that great, unfortunately it was not very scary, its hard to explain why but nothing really happened in the film, A few doors shutting and some loud noises and that's it, I loved the conjuring but this was disappointing.

Warper

This starts off slow and doesnt get going until after about 45 mins or so. There are some really good scenes in this which makes it worth the watch.

The part where the child was standing in the next room and then runs towards her morphing into the adult

As prev said the demon's head on the stairway behind the doll

The demon in the basement was also brilliant

MJP2608

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

The Conjuring was awful. Seriously it had one decent scene and the rest was bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang while ripping off every horror film ever made. Reminds me of the masters quote,

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

Yup, felt like I was playing a game of Horror Cliché Bingo watching The Conjuring.

JaMarcusHustle wrote: »

That was particularly scary and one of my favourite scenes in any horror movie. It was too much for a group of girls in front of us who got up and left straight away, not to return. A few people actually left shortly after that scene.

I left the Dublin Cineworld shortly after that scene, but only because the film was awful.

cynicaljam

Would it not be considered a prequel since the trailer states "Before the Conjuring" that seems like prequel territory to me.

EDDIE WATERS

Seen this today in Cineworld and thought it was terrible

MileyReilly

Does anyone think this film is any good?

BlondeBomb

It's terrible, really really bad.

I loved The Conjuring and was looking forward to this but it's crap.

Nothing new in it at all and very predictable.

MileyReilly

Loves The Conjuring myself but skeptical off Annabelle. Might give it a miss!

Goldstein

MileyReilly wrote: »

Does anyone think this film is any good?

Depends on how scared you are by

gazzer

I watched this last night. I thought it was really good. Much better than some of the reviews made out. Some really good scenes in it.

Goldstein

gazzer wrote: »

I watched this last night. I thought it was really good. Much better than some of the reviews made out. Some really good scenes in it.

They transplanted one of the "big scare" scenes straight from Insideous.

Half a demon's face becoming visible in the background of another character's head - it's the exact same idea.

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The overbearing and overused discordant scretchy music (also from Insideous) really did my head in. Scares that rely so heavily on the crutch of blaring and startling music aren't worth their salt imo. That along with strobe lighting and static shots of a doll's face was there purely to paper over the cracks that were created by having no real suspense or original thinking. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't good by any stretch and practically all the good was plagiarised. Doesn't hold a candle to the excellent The Conjuring.

candy-gal1

Cant seem to find The Conjuring anywhere recently tbh, guessing its one of the favourites for halloween viewing so

Saw this yesterday, after seeing the trailer which scared the crap out of me, overall its a good horror but imho it took ages to actually get scary as most of the parts at the start etc were all from the trailer so I knew what was to happen :rolleyes:

After they

Move house into the apartment block

I thought it got a lot scarier and better imho!

It didnt scare me as much as Insideous did though tbh, which is a good and bad thing to me as that stayed in my head for over a year after seeing it , but I would have liked this to possably be on par with it!

One good thing I will say about is the ending didnt seem rushed and made sense and also they didnt go into the whole emotional family thing that some horrors do, they just had enough to accommpany the story

Probably wouldnt go again in the cinema unless one of my friends hasnt seen it and asks me, unlikely :P:pac:, but would probably put it in my horror pile for halloween viewing, in the top20 at least

Kunkka

I think people are being a bit harsh on this movie. I've definitely seen worse horrors & did jump a few times while watching it so it done what it says on the tin for me.

Mike Litoris

MileyReilly wrote: »

Does anyone think this film is any good?

No.






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