I'm 39 and the fact that you consider 'Scream' a high mark in horror history is pretty telling.
I have loved horror movies all my life, I like all kinds from the silly slashers like F13th to "slow" character builds such as "Session 9" to Hammer Horror Classics with Christoper Lee and Peter Cushing.
This movie was just full of a whole lot of nothing, it was all over the place. Why was the doll even in this? It did nothing, killed no one. So it was the conduit? So, ok, maybe we are thinking since the doll is called "Annabelle" and the woman who killed herself was called "Annabelle" that maybe it was her soul in the doll? No, it was some demon, who wanted the wife's soul for.....what reason again?
Then there's these neighbor kids who for some reason draw some creepy pictures (or was it the demon ooooh, creepy) that lead to nothing and we never see them again.
He got a soul, not the wife's, but he got a soul, and then what, he just went back down to hell with his new soul to do what with it exactly? Usually there's some horrible consequence like the demon will be free to roam the earth or something. I could go on and on.
I can enjoy "shut your brain off and just have fun with it" horror films, I can enjoy suspenseful thrillers, but this was neither, it had little attempts at both but just came out a boring mess.
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TheBeardedWonder
10 years ago
Yeah movies like this are seriously annoying. They do nothing right, and just go through the motions until it hits the 90 minute mark. They're shot cheap and meant for a huge opening weekend, then when word of mouth gets out how bad it is there's a sudden dropoff, they literally plan for this with movies of this ilk. But they made it so cheaply that it still makes money no matter what.
The doll had nothing to do with anything, I agree. It could have just been an invisible demon and it would have been the same movie. The sets weren't convincing, the pace was slow as mud, the characters are boring don't seem real, the scares are choreographed from a mile away, and the whole thing is a blend of better movies' scenes spliced together. Clearly nobody involved in this dreck was even trying.
Crap in equals crap out. This is a fine example of that...
'Get yourself a real dog. Any dog under 50 lbs is a cat and cats are pointless' - Ron Swanson
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JohnJackson12
10 years ago
Oh for sure, it was put together quick, done on the cheap, and like you say, it worked, they got a quick surge off claiming to be part of the "The Conjuring" then it died off. I thankfully only rented it, and only because my niece was a big Conjuring fan, but she hated it too.
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