Story: How a raggedy
Ann Doll turns into something more than just raggedy and the trouble it creates
in the lives of a couple pretty sums up the plotline of “Annabelle”.
Horror Elements: Let me
begin by saying that I am one of the millions who went in expecting a
conjuring-par movie. But what I found was a horror movie which became a victim
of its own success. The hype created around its making was not completely
satisfied as the best scenes were revealed in the teasers and trailers and some
of other horror elements turned out to be, for the lack of better word,
predictable (like injury from a sewing machine, baby being the centre plot and
some more).
But I am not going to deny,
yes the movie did have some of its own horror elements (the carpet-moment,
noises-on-top moment) but they were just not enough to satisfy the thirst. Lack
of too many characters, lack of an in-depth into the cult mentioned, lack of in-depth
about the said demon, presence of demon in very few frames all let to an ending
which felt more like abrupt than like an end. If anything the popcorns jerked
inside the tub but none of it overflew while for “the conjuring” almost all of
it spilled without some of them flying to the back seats.
The absence of the
stewardship of James Wan was felt on the whole. With a few more gripping
elements in the early half, the movie would have become more likeable but still
far from the conjuring-effect.
In short Conjuring-2:
Victim of its own success.
