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vikesh2206Nov 10, 2014

With jump scares without suspense, plot without pacing, characters without development and a creepy doll who does nothing, Annabelle is scary in how unfrightening it is.

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thetvreviewmanNov 6, 2014

Don't bother seeing this movie. Annabelle had a complete lack of scares which made it extremely boring. Basically the doll just sat around the house changing [ing positions every 15 minutes. The acting was unbearable it was so bad. ReallyDon't bother seeing this movie. Annabelle had a complete lack of scares which made it extremely boring. Basically the doll just sat around the house changing [ing positions every 15 minutes. The acting was unbearable it was so bad. Really disappointing after last years hit The Conjuring.… Expand

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SolInvictaMay 24, 2015

A shameless cash-grab, Annabelle fails to provide anything new to the genre with a boring plot, pitiful acting, and long periods of time where absolutely nothing happens.

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PerfectCriticOct 25, 2014

A failure prequel that is lightyears far from it's original movie "The Conjuring"
Don't expect much from the director of movies such as (Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and The Butterfly Effect 2 ) and a writer's First Movie script.
A boringA failure prequel that is lightyears far from it's original movie "The Conjuring"
Don't expect much from the director of movies such as (Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and The Butterfly Effect 2 ) and a writer's First Movie script.
A boring extremely poor written dull story with very few action or scary scenes , with many silly cliches and unconvincing interactions between characters and illogical character's decisions and plot.

Annabelle had much more potentials if it was in better hands.… Expand

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NotoriousFraudOct 12, 2014

Boring and unintentionally funny in a lot of scenes and the doll is completely arbitrary to the plot. Despite one decent sequence involving an elevator "Annabelle" is as porcelain of a movie as the real doll is.

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Heero2020Oct 21, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So, basically, if you had any idea that this moving was going to be about a doll, you would be wrong. It is isn't. It's about Helter Skelter with some knock-off wannabe Manson-style cult as the source of all the woes in the film. It's like Paranormal activity, Rosemary's Baby and Chucky had a threesome and their love child was "ANNABELLE"

So, 3 things that could have made the movie better. 1) NEVER SHOW THE DEMON. I thought that was a given, but apparently I was wrong. 2) PICK A REAL GROUP. Disciples of the Ram? They just wanted to use the Baphomet picture. 3) DON'T MAKE A FAKE CULT SYMBOL THAT LOOKS LIKE A CURSIVE A. When it first showed up, I was all excited, thinking "Oh. That's cool. The demon Zorro-ed an A in her arm, like Annabelle. Creepy." But then it turned out it was some half-assed sigil that was something about soul transfer.

So that's it. It blows.… Expand

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heitorsgodinhoNov 13, 2014

Não acredito que paguei pra ver isso sério, pelo amor de Deus, pior filme que já vi no cinema, Invocação do Mal foi um filme muito bom agora não vale nem a pena gastar seu precioso tempo vendo isso.

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TheSecretEmberOct 12, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. ***SPOILERS***

This thing of a movie wasn't worth my time. The acting was fine but I didn't like it. Id rather have gone and seen dolphin tale 2 (no shade thrown I want to see the movie) because the story wasn't good or funny (I find some horror movies funny like the conjuring when they were taking the demon out her. Now I'm not a spiritual person or a religious person but im fine when they do it in movies and coming from (and still in) a religious household understand this stuff. Now she should have seen that coming when the father wouldn't look her in the eyes. I hated this moive and don't recommend anyone to see it even if they have free time.

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HannibalLecterOct 16, 2014

Annabelle manages to use every horror cliche in the book, thus making it another typical bad horror movie of this generation. The acting is somewhat okay, but the sounds and the "scares" are overused, thus ruining the scare factor.

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Jrud05Oct 3, 2014

Annabelle was possibly the worst horror movie I've seen in a long time. The movie seemed to drag by and there were too few scare scenes. I honestly can't believe this came from the same people that brought us The Conjuring.
Save your moneyAnnabelle was possibly the worst horror movie I've seen in a long time. The movie seemed to drag by and there were too few scare scenes. I honestly can't believe this came from the same people that brought us The Conjuring.
Save your money for the DVD folks, and even then, make sure you have something else to keep you entertained while you're watching it.… Expand

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eagleeyevikingOct 10, 2014

Three to five minutes of Annabelle in 'The Conjuring' is far more frightening than an hour and a half of Annabelle... in 'Annabelle'. They just made the doll cute.

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rayquaza9898Oct 23, 2014

Annabelle it's the kind of movie that pretend introduce a scary situation with bad storyline and the result is the same over and over again, many jump scares but not an atmosphere to introduce the spectator into the act. At the end, it's justAnnabelle it's the kind of movie that pretend introduce a scary situation with bad storyline and the result is the same over and over again, many jump scares but not an atmosphere to introduce the spectator into the act. At the end, it's just a movie that wanna be successful using the success and good rating of the conjuring.… Expand

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AxttonOct 11, 2014

From director of Mortal Kombat: Annihilation!! hah
what a piece of **** is this movie don't waste money on this ................................................

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RamonGuerreroOct 27, 2014

Come on, this is supposed to be a great prequel to the horror masterpiece The Conjuring, instead, it was a dull and laughable cliché "horror" story. What in this movie is supposed to scare us?

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LamontRaymondOct 3, 2014

I hate to do this, but I'm going to have to call out Kyle Smith of the Post, Inkoo Kang of The Wrap, and Michael Phillips of the Tribune - you all gave this travesty a positive review. You should turn in your critic card - yesterday. ThisI hate to do this, but I'm going to have to call out Kyle Smith of the Post, Inkoo Kang of The Wrap, and Michael Phillips of the Tribune - you all gave this travesty a positive review. You should turn in your critic card - yesterday. This is a horrible movie that commits the cardinal sin of horror movies - it bores the hell out of you. Nothing happens in this film. It's as if the movie's been sitting on the shelf for about 15 years, and the writers/director haven't seen anything that's come out in the horror genre since then. Really embarrassing for Warner Bros. Godawful crap. Please, do yourself a favor, horror fans, and go see The Guest, Honeymoon, or any number of really good horror movies released this year. Better yet, go check out You're Next or A Horrible Way to Die from Adam Wingard - one director who is doing horror right these days. One more note on Annabelle - it seems that any form of entertainment that employs Alfre Woodward these days - be it Copper, Last Ship, True Blood etc. - officially jumps the shark when she appears. I loved her in her early career, but she spells doom for whatever she's in lately.… Expand

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Blackstarhalo4Oct 3, 2014

Simply bad. Not scary at all, and I really disliked it. Not even close to how good the first movie was. The story was horrible, the actors were just plain stupid, and the scares were lame. 0/10

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ismacinefiloDec 3, 2014

Amazing **** Annabelle iot's an incredible movie to watch if you are retarded or if you have problems of brain. Oh my god, MASTERPIECE!!! 10$ for this!!! If you want to destroy your life, then watch it. Fck that shy of movie! .l.

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SatiricalewokNov 7, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It is a shame I can't do two reviews for each half of this movie. Because the first half, if generic, is a decent creepy horror film. With paranormal activity esque camera work (which is the best part of the whole film) and a doll which is genuinely creepy, the first half does contain suspense and maybe a scare and a third. However after maybe 40 odd minutes, the film devolves into something more like scary movie or drag me to hell. All suspense is lost as we see the beastie who is behind everything (a dude with a goat's head) and we hear about the back story of the doll, which is nonsense. Overall this film was dissapointing, as the doll was one of the two scary parts of the conjuring, but this film is not scary, it's just kind of silly and dull.… Expand

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plushcarpetNov 10, 2014

"Annabelle" is one of the most boring, flat, dry, uninspired, unoriginal pieces of cinematic garbage I've laid eyes on in the past decade.

This movie is so -not- scary that it feels "anti-horror". The characters are chunks of blank"Annabelle" is one of the most boring, flat, dry, uninspired, unoriginal pieces of cinematic garbage I've laid eyes on in the past decade.

This movie is so -not- scary that it feels "anti-horror". The characters are chunks of blank cardboard, with no personality to speak of, no expressions on their faces, and no interesting dialogue from any of them. The jump-scares are in excess but none of them are frightening or necessary. I would attempt to explain the pointless plot but I was so bored that all I could focus on was how ridiculous the movie was and why someone felt the need to make something so horrible.

I would give this movie a negative ten ( -10 ) if metacritic allowed it. That's how bad this film is.… Expand

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NFWJun 25, 2015

ANNABELLE is a complete mash up of everything that is wrong with the horror genre. It's a dull, derivative, and predicable turkey of a film that favors cheep jump scares over lasting dread and is headed by a villain who is obviously justANNABELLE is a complete mash up of everything that is wrong with the horror genre. It's a dull, derivative, and predicable turkey of a film that favors cheep jump scares over lasting dread and is headed by a villain who is obviously just trying WAY too hard to be scary. This is a film that is unwatchable on every level.… Expand

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brentwshelton1Jan 20, 2015

Quite simply, I gave this a one simply because of one or two brief scenes (the basement/elevator scene and the scene when the wife first sees the little Annabelle girl ghost in the apt.) that were slightly creepy. Overall this movie was godQuite simply, I gave this a one simply because of one or two brief scenes (the basement/elevator scene and the scene when the wife first sees the little Annabelle girl ghost in the apt.) that were slightly creepy. Overall this movie was god awful boring. At 22 minutes left (after the characters finally figured out a demon was involved) we were like "How are they going to wrap this up? That remaining 22 minutes includes credits!!" How they managed to do it was due to an EXTREMELY sloppy edit in which the main characters were confusingly all of a sudden at totally different places and with totally different characters then had been implied would occur a mere 5 seconds previously. Guess the editors realized they only had 22 or so minutes left as well and knew they had to cram everything in at once. Dull, predictable ending, No tension. Glad I only rented this. Very disappointed.… Expand

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MassanderOct 18, 2014

This is a very bad movie, it's so predictable, there are some cool scenes, but the movie itself won't scare you so much, the story is too simple, and there is no climax, the movie ends and you ask if that was all, i was expecting much moreThis is a very bad movie, it's so predictable, there are some cool scenes, but the movie itself won't scare you so much, the story is too simple, and there is no climax, the movie ends and you ask if that was all, i was expecting much more from this, The Conjuring was good, but this one fails at everything. It's a waste of good material.… Expand

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idontknowherDec 21, 2016

Asco de película. Creo que teniendo la fama de "El Conjuro". quisieron hacer este intento de secuela tan horrible. Todavía Chucky es mejor que esto, realmente todos teníamos expectativas buenas, pero terminó por darme risa en lugar de miedo,Asco de película. Creo que teniendo la fama de "El Conjuro". quisieron hacer este intento de secuela tan horrible. Todavía Chucky es mejor que esto, realmente todos teníamos expectativas buenas, pero terminó por darme risa en lugar de miedo, trama horrible, la muñeca nada que ver, horrible, realmente desagradable.… Expand

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MattBrady99Mar 10, 2015

John R. Leonetti directed this movie, and if you don't know what other movies he did, well he did such movies as: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and The Butterfly Effect 2. Yeah this is going to be painful talk about.

Annabelle is about aJohn R. Leonetti directed this movie, and if you don't know what other movies he did, well he did such movies as: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and The Butterfly Effect 2. Yeah this is going to be painful talk about.

Annabelle is about a husband tracks down a vintage doll in a white dress. But after a Satanic cult breaks in and terrifies the couple, they leave behind something else - and Annabelle is unleashed.

I have seen so many film with a dreadful script and stupid movie characters that are as thick as a brink and make stupid moves, and Annabelle is nothing different, actually this might be the worst horror movie that I've seen so far this year.

The acting is pure god awful. The writing is full of bad cliches that even a good horror film would avoid. This movie is filled with loud lazy jump scares that are so predictable, the movie became a joke. Now I bet your asking yourself's, "Well if the movie isn't that good, is they anything good in the movie?". No, I can't find anything good about this movie. The movie failed to scare me, and it failed as a horror movie itself and that's why this movie is freaking terrible.… Expand

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MovieGuysMay 30, 2016

Annabelle is a horribly acted, boring, unoriginal, incoherent mess of a movie that isn't even scary. Avoid at all costs, do not waste two hours watching this.