History Film / AnnabelleComesHome

** [[spoiler:Ed plays guitar during Judy's birthday party, a reference to a scene in ''The Conjuring II''.]]
** There is news and gossip regarding the Warrens being a hoax, just like in ''Film/TheConjuringII''.

''Annabelle Comes Home'' is a horror film and the sixth entry in Film/TheConjuringUniverse. Chronologically, it is an {{Interquel}} and mostly takes place between ''Film/TheConjuring'' and ''Film/TheConjuringII''. It is the directorial debut of Gary Dauberman, who previously worked as screenwriter of [[Film/{{Annabelle}} three]] [[Film/AnnabelleCreation films]] [[Film/TheNun in the franchise]] and also co-wrote this film with Creator/JamesWan. It was released on June 26, 2019.

''Annabelle Comes Home'' is a horror film and the seventh entry in Film/TheConjuringUniverse. Chronologically, it is an {{Interquel}} and mostly takes place between ''Film/TheConjuring'' and ''Film/TheConjuringII''. It is the directorial debut of Gary Dauberman, who previously worked as screenwriter of [[Film/{{Annabelle}} three]] [[Film/AnnabelleCreation films]] [[Film/TheNun in the franchise]] and also co-wrote this film with Creator/JamesWan. It was released on June 26, 2019.

* SweaterGirl: It isn't emphasized as much as most examples of the trope, but Mary Ellen and Daniela wear well-fitting sweaters for most of the film.

** There are news and gossips regarding the Warrens being hoax, just like in ''Film/TheConjuringII''.

* HauntedTechnology: Several items in the Warren's museum, including an early TV that predicts the near future, an antique telephone, and a telegraph machine.

* NonMaliciousMonster: The Samurai. While very creepy and nearly ends up crushing Mary Ellen, it does not actually do anything to torment the protagonists. Also, the ghost of the priest, as he ends up helping the protagonists as well.

* YourSoulIsMine: At one point, Mary Ellen and Judy attempt to call Lorraine via the telephone to tell her about the rampaging spirits in the house, but the one that answers the call is a demon imitating Lorraine's voice and tell them that they have to give Annabelle a soul. [[spoiler:At the climax, Annabelle's ram demon try to suck Judy's soul.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It’s the doll, Ed. It’s a beacon for other spirits."'']]
->'''Daniela:''' So, Judy, don’t your parents, like, keep any creepy stuff around?\\
'''Judy:''' No. They keep it all locked away in a room.\\
'''Daniela:''' Well, can we at least go in and look?

''Annabelle Comes Home'' is a horror film and the seventh entry in Film/TheConjuringUniverse. Chronologically, it is an {{Interquel}} and mostly takes place between ''Film/TheConjuring'' and ''Film/TheConjuringII''. It is the directorial debut of Gary Dauberman, who previously worked as screenwriter of [[Film/{{Annabelle}} three]] [[Film/AnnabelleCreation films]] [[Film/TheNun in the franchise]] and also co-wrote this film with Creator/JamesWan. It was released on June 26, 2019.

After taking Annabelle from a pair of nurses, paranormal investigators Ed (Creator/PatrickWilson) and Lorraine Warren (Creator/VeraFarmiga) place the cursed doll inside a glass box in their occult museum. Sometime later, they leave behind their daughter, Judy (Creator/MckennaGrace), to be cared for by a babysitter, Mary Ellen (Creator/MadisonIseman), and her friend, Daniela Rios (Katie Sarife), while they are away on a case. Daniela, who has recently lost her father, becomes interested in the museum. As a consequence, Annabelle begins terrorizing the girls by making the rest of the museum's artifacts come alive.

'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCxm7cTpBAs Trailer 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMa-KFfatT0 Trailer 2]].
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!!''Annabelle Comes Home'' contains examples of:
* TheSeventies: The film briefly opens in 1971, before cutting to a year later.
* BigBad: The ram demon who uses Annabelle as a conduit once again serves in this role.
* BlessedWithSuck: Judy views her sixth sense as this. She cannot go anywhere without seeing dead people standing by.
* BrightIsNotGood: One scary scene involves Judy's color wheel lamp being pushed from the table. As the lamp switches color, Annabelle's silhouette gradually changes; first the doll, then Annabelle Mullins, before finally settling on Annabelle Higgins[[spoiler:... only to shift one last time to the ram demon]].
* BrutalHonesty: One of Judy's friends when explaining why she can't come to her birthday party (her parents are creeped out by the Warrens' business).
* TheBrute: The Black Shuck is a powerful and vicious spirit, but it's apparently not too bright. It spends most of its time keeping the girls in the house while trying to find Bob.
* CallBack: Near the end of the film, Mary Ellen enters a dark room while Judy is praying in front of the room's door, just like the abbess and Sister Victoria did in ''Film/TheNun''. [[spoiler:Unlike those poor nuns, however, Judy and Mary Ellen survive.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The ghost of a priest who haunts Judy at school. [[spoiler:He shows up near the climax to help her and Mary Ellen find Annabelle.]]
* {{Chronoscope}}: An artifact in the museum is a television screen that is somehow able to predict everything that will happen in front of it. [[spoiler:Well, almost everything; [[BigDamnHeroes Judy]] stops Daniela at the last second from answering a phone that would lead to her death.]]
* ContinuityNod:
** [[spoiler:Ed plays guitar during Judy's birthday party, a reference to a scene in ''The Conjuring II''.]]
** There are news and gossips regarding the Warrens being hoax, just like in ''Film/TheConjuringII''.
* CreepyCemetery: Ed and Lorraine are haunted by spirits summoned by Annabelle while they are driving near a cemetery.
* DisappearedDad: Daniela's. This forms a part of the story; she wants to summon her father's spirit to apologize to him for [[spoiler:causing the car crash that killed him.]]
* TheDragon: The Bride is the first spirit awoken by Annabelle, and does more to torment the heroes than any of the other spirits. It's also the last of the ghosts to be confronted by Judy before she faces Annabelle.
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Bob's Got Balls" Palmer. He tells Mary Ellen he got it because he's the equipment manager of the basketball team, and the one responsible for getting the balls out.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Other than the opening and ending, the film takes place within 24 hours.
* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:Unlike two previous ''Annabelle'' films, there are no human casualties here. While the Warrens are SavedByCanon, there are several hints and teases that either Daniela, Mary Ellen, or both will be killed since "Annabelle wants a soul". But, ultimately, they survive.]]
* EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: The samurai armor in the museum, which joins the action after serving as a [[NoodleIncident curious prop]] in the previous films. When Mary Ellen is accompanying Judy to find Annabelle, she is briefly confronted by the armor and hears what sounds like its morbid backstory ([[BilingualBonus in untranslated Japanese]]). [[spoiler:In the climax, it teleports back to the museum and almost crushes her.]]
* EvilPhone: When the girls attempt to call Lorraine for help in the midst of being terrorized by the demon, it appears to be her on the other end at first, but then her voice slowly takes on a more sinister tone as she tells them it wants a soul. There's also the cursed antique phone in the museum, which would have apparently killed Daniela had Judy and Mary Ellen not stopped her from answering it.
* TheFerryman: One of the artifacts in the museum is the coins of the Ferryman, a being said to ferry souls to the afterlife in exchange for coins placed on the eyes of their dead bodies.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Mary Ellen.
* HauntedTechnology: Several items in the Warren's museum, including an early TV that predicts the near future, an antique telephone, and a telegraph machine.
* InTheBlood: Judy inherits her mother's psychic abilities to a certain extent. She is able to see things normal humans cannot, but does not appear to have psychic dreams or access someone's memories by touching them.
* ItsAllMyFault: Daniela blames herself for [[spoiler:the accident that killed her father, as she was the one driving the car.]]
* LockedRoomMystery: Daniela is trying to peek inside the museum while Judy and Mary Ellen are playing rollerblades. She finds it shut with a three-key lock. Of course, the Warrens know how dangerous it is for the uninitiated (including their daughter) to enter the room and they will make extra sure to protect them from it. Later on Daniela ''does'' find the keys, but that is because the demon beckons her to them.
* LittleMissBadass: Judy.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: The film is filled with subtle movements, watching eyes, and shadows in the background, creating an unsettling atmosphere.
* MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual: Although the Warrens' occult museum has been shown in the previous films, it gets to be the central location here.
* MythologyGag: A Raggedy Ann doll (Annabelle's RealLife counterpart) appears in a television show Mary Ellen watches.
* NonMaliciousMonster: The Samurai. While very creepy and nearly ends up crushing Mary Ellen, it does not actually do anything to torment the protagonists. Also, the ghost of the priest, as he ends up helping the protagonists as well.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: One of the artifacts in the museum is revealed to contain a werewolf spirit. When all hell breaks loose, it escapes into the front yard and terrorizes Bob all night. [[spoiler:When it almost catches Judy, Bob smashes his guitar on its face, causing it to disappear.]]
* SavedByCanon: Ed, Lorraine, and Judy will have to survive no matter what happens, since they all appeared in ''The Conjuring II'', which is chronologically set after this film.
* SchmuckBait: To people not previously acquainted with the reality and lethality of the supernatural phenomena the Warrens deal with, their museum proves to be be an irresistible lure, as Daniela comes to find out.
-->'''Mary Ellen''': What did you touch?\\
'''Daniela''': ''[[AllOfThem Everything.]]''
* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:The way that the ram demon attempts to suck Judy's soul is similar to how Dementor sucks its victim's soul in ''Film/HarryPotter'' films. Of course, both ''Harry Potter'' and ''Conjuring Universe'' films are distributed by Warner Bros.]]
* QuieterThanSilence: Twice in close succession, Daniela screams for help once she's locked inside the museum room, only for the camera to dramatically pan out and have her scream fade to nothing once outside, so Mary Ellen can't hear her cries for help. Soon after Mary Ellen screams and bangs against Judy's door to wake her once she discovers there's ghosts afoot, only for all of it to be muffled to silence inside Judy's room so the Annabelle doll can prey on her.
* SweaterGirl: It isn't emphasized as much as most examples of the trope, but Mary Ellen and Daniela wear well-fitting sweaters for most of the film.
* TarotMotifs: A tarot card for The Devil is seen sticking in the inside of Annabelle's glass box at one point.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lorraine's mother, who used to babysit Judy in ''Film/TheConjuring'', is nowhere to be seen or mentioned. In fact, the main story starts with Ed and Lorraine hiring Mary Ellen to babysit Judy and they also mention that it's not Mary Ellen's first time in babysitting Judy.
* WidowedAtTheWedding: Another artifact in the museum is a wedding dress haunted by a spirit known as the Bride. She possesses brides who wear it, forcing them to kill their would-be husbands at the altar. By the time the Warrens confiscated it, she had goaded seven brides to commit murder.
* YourSoulIsMine: At one point, Mary Ellen and Judy attempt to call Lorraine via the telephone to tell her about the rampaging spirits in the house, but the one that answers the call is a demon imitating Lorraine's voice and tell them that they have to give Annabelle a soul. [[spoiler:At the climax, Annabelle's ram demon try to suck Judy's soul.]]
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* RealityEnsues: Daniela is trying to peek inside the museum while Judy and Mary Ellen are playing rollerblades. She finds it shut with a three-key lock. Of course, the Warrens know how dangerous it is for the uninitiated (including their daughter) to enter the room and they will make extra sure to protect them from it. Subverted later on as Daniela ''does'' find the keys, but that is because the demon beckons her to them.

* UnfortunateNames: Bob's nickname is "Bob's-got-balls". The explanation is he is the ball manager for his high school sports team. When they need balls, he has them, hence the nickname. Even some adults who shouldn't know this do like Ed. Later, this is turned around: after showing bravery numerous times, this becomes an AwesomeMcCoolName. As in, Bob's got the balls to take on a werewolf.

* LittleMissBadass: Judy is a combination of this and a StoicWoobie.

* BrutalHonesty: One of Judy's friends when explaining why she can't come to her birthday party (her parents are creeped out by the Warren's business).