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That last part of the trailer made my bowels loosen a little.
Tch... diverging more and more from the real-life (possibly somewhat fictionalized) story.
Still just awesome like that
Honestly didn't feel like the Conjuring warranted a spin-off, but eh, whatevs.
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Another trailer:
The film's already gone through test screenings. The Conjuring had some of the best-ever screening scores for a horror film. Somehow, I doubt this matched those, but it might be entertaining.
I'm looking forward to this, personally. Annabelle was one of the most memorable features in The Conjuring, despite not being all that relevant to the actual story. Done right, a movie that fully focuses on her and tells us her full story can be truly great.
A spin-off of a dime-a-dozen "Based on a true story" ghost movie, focused on Chucky's less scary cousin. Boy, I'm zazzed...
I just saw it. It could have been a lot better. Don't expect anything like the "real" story. It would have been better to use a Raggedy Ann doll like the real Annabelle rather than something trying so obviously to look scary ( though it does make a cameo in the final scene).
A couple scenes didn't go the way I thought they'd go or wanted them to go. I would have thought the priest when driving the doll to the church would see the doll or the demon in the rearview mirror and crashed or something. Frankly the whole horned demon bit was rather silly to me, this movie is almost worse about shoe-horning in Christian elements than the Conjuring was.
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Not a very good movie. Too bad.
John R. Leonetti's(Mortal Kombat: Annihilation? Seriously?) direction is stronger than I expected, and he got in a couple neat bits. But it was obviously a cheapo effort. And the characters were pretty dumb.
I too was expecting a car crash, especially since the "true" story posited that was what happened at one point. And it would have been less silly than what the movie did.
The doll being hit against the side of the crib and then suddenly turning into the baby was the ONLY point in this movie that actually scared me a bit... And then they cheated. : /
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It would have been so much darker and scarier if they hadn't chickened out at that part. If they really wanted to make the movie scary, they should have had the mother think she was destroying the doll, only to find out she was hallucinating and had actually killed her own baby, giving the demons what they wanted. Then the mother gets hauled off to prison or an insane asylum. But no, we got an obligatory happy ending instead, probably because of Infant Immortality.
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Well, hauled off to an insane asylum would have been just depression and not a good ending either, but that moment shocked me because Infant Imortality is such a prevelant trope that the idea of SUBVERTING it was terrifying. And then they cheated. So, they could have had the mother give her sould for the baby's, or go on a roaring rampage of revenge and guilt to kill the demon and really kick ass or something.
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