FILM REVIEW: Annabelle Comes Home

โ€˜ANNABELLE Comes Homeโ€™ is the latest offering from horror franchise โ€˜The Conjuring Universeโ€™.

Demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) are determined to keep a possessed doll from wreaking more havoc so they stick Annabelle in their homeโ€™s locked artefacts room.

The creepy figurine is placed โ€˜safelyโ€™ behind sacred glass after a priestโ€™s holy blessing, but thereโ€™s no keeping her demonic and mischievous ways at bay.

When the Warrenโ€™s 10-year-old daughter Judy (McKenna Grace) is left in the care of some bad babysitters an unholy night of horror awaits.

Annabelle and a bunch of evil spirits gatecrash their girlie sleepover, but as it turns out itโ€™s love-struck teenager Bob (Michael Cimino) that proves the most unnerving aspect of this fair to middling fright-fest. Thereโ€™s one scene where the young Donnie Osmond lookalike turns up at the Warrenโ€™s house with an acoustic guitar to serenade babysitter Mary Ellen (Madison Iseman) that is truly ghastly.

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To be fair though, โ€˜Annabelle Comes Homeโ€™ is far better than many of the Conjuring Universeโ€™s more recent efforts. It is far from original but there are a couple of half decent scares and it is a more chilling and enjoyable watch than either โ€˜The Nunโ€™ or โ€˜The Curse of La Lloronaโ€™.

Iโ€™ve seen worse! Forgettable but fun.

(2/5)

ODEON Limerick is this week giving away one pair of tickets and two large combo meals for a film of your choice at their cinema at the Castletroy Shopping Centre.

To be in with a chance answer the following question and email your answer toย [email protected]ย by 9am on Monday July 29.

What movie universe does ‘Annabelle Comes Home’ from?

A. The Omen

B. The Evil Dead

C. The Conjuring

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