Premise: Annabelle gets loose in the Warren house.
This is like the Captain America: Civil War of the Conjuring franchise. Here me out. The Conjuring is a cinematic universe that spans in many directions at this point, but the proper Conjuring movies with the Warrens are the centerpiece. That’s what the Avengers movies are to the MCU. Civil War is notable for being an Avengers movie in everything but the name. It’s technically a Captain America movie, but virtually all the Avengers are there. Annabelle Comes Home is a Conjuring movie. The Warrens are in it. Annabelle is in it more. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are somewhere between supporting and cameo, but the movie is in their house.
I think the idea for Annabelle Comes Home is really cool. The original The Conjuring teased me with that room of relics: a treasure trove of horror movie ideas all under one umbrella. Annabelle and the other spinoff films, while underwhelming in execution, have delivered on the promise of those artifacts. Annabelle Comes Home is the Chekov’s Gun of the franchise: What if the stuff in that room got out? Like the rest of these Conjuring spinoffs/sequels, the film itself is underwhelming. These movies keep pulling from the same bag of tricks. The air of realism gives too many characters plot armor. It’s hard to feel any stakes watching this.
Still, I like the idea. Mckenna Grace is a top tier child star of the late 2010s. I’m OK with James Wan and the other producers taking repeated swings like this until they hit on something great.
Verdict: Weakly Don’t Recommend
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