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Does Annabelle ever actually do anything?

posted 10 years ago by MisterBabadook
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I just feel like this doll doesn't do jack sh!t the whole movie. I mean the doll never actually moves from what i remember in this movie, its always just laying somewhere with a creepy face. I mean i don't want it to go all Chucky on us running around saying one liners or anything but i'd at least like a head turn or an eye blink here and there.

It just kinda feels cheap when they just have the doll lay there with random supernatural stuff happening around it. I get that the devil or a demons attached to it but the movie is called Annabelle with the Doll on the cover, but it felt like the doll was never actually used in the movie other than just laying around with a creepy look. A demon/ghost thing was doing everything.

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[–] Megaman2005 10 years ago

SPOILER ALERT!

Well it DID have a scene where Annabelle floating in midair towards the the end of the movie.

But I agree with you about Annabelle hardly doing anything. I was hoping Annabelle would be actually moving and doing things like breaking stuff, turning stuff on and off, and walking to places physically on her own while no one was looking.

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[–] MisterBabadook 10 years ago

Yeah i mean this movie was more about a ghost/demon than it was the doll. If anything the doll was just used to carry the demon wherever it went and wherever it went it let the demon loose. The doll never actually moves except for the 1 single scene where it floats.

I mean don't put the doll on the cover and name it Anabelle if the movie is mainly about a demon running around doing everything.

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[–] MisterBabadook 10 years ago

Yeah the doll doesn't do nothing in this except 1 scene wheres its standing up and it floats in the air. This is really a boring movie, you keep waiting for something to happen but nothing does. It literally goes on for an hour without the doll doing anything or anything really happening.

If you haven't seen it, don't see it you'll regret it and want your time back.

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[–] Megaman2005 10 years ago

If you haven't seen it, don't see it you'll regret it and want your time back.

So true. I wish I listened to everyone who said it sucked. I saw it anyways being enticed by the story of Annabelle in The Conjuring and the bad reviews didn't scare me away from it since I actually do like some horror movies that a lot of people said were bad. I could have waited a bit to see it for free, but I REALLY wanted to watch it. So I rented it .. new release price .. and yes.. indeed I did want my money back.

And that guy above me.. he's not lying or exaggerating when he says nothing happens for a whole hour. It was so boring and slow I felt like I was watching a drama movie. It had so much filler it felt like watching a reality tv show at times.

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[–] timmybadger 10 years ago

To the people saying the doll floated, it didn't. The demon was behind it holding it up.

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[–] jdrr22-148-111877 10 years ago

The doll is the object the demon uses. It lives in it. It doesn't have to move around or do anything very overt. It gets from one place to another on its own. The demon or ghost comes from it. It's enough to that's where the evil is lurking. The original doll in real life was actually a raggedy Ann doll. To me, that's not even creepy.

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[–] LadyDi4476 10 years ago

I agree. For a movie about a doll named Annabelle, we dont' really get to see a whole lot of Annabelle doing anything! The scene where the doll falls to the floor while the mother is looking under the door is really ridiculous and funny.

The only semi spooky part is when the doll sits up on her own. Even so Child's Play was a much scarier movie. As least we saw Chucky come to life. And I'm sorry but if my husband threw a doll out far away and somehow it shows up in my moving box that thing is going into the fire! I wouldn't keep in the baby's room!

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[–] Beastgirl2 10 years ago

The scene where the doll falls to the floor while the mother is looking under the door is really ridiculous and funny.

That scene really startled me! It was funny after the fact but it scared me when I watched it. I thought the doll was creepy because she changes positions and locations, but it was less creepy when you know it's the demons/ghosts controlling it. Even if we never saw the doll moving, it would have been creepier if the doll moved on its own and changed positions more often. Showing the real Annabelle (her ghost or whatever) and the demon thing made it a lot less scary. The doll itself was still pretty creepy to me though.

[–] Merry-Go-Girl 9 years ago

This isn't Chucky you guys, Annabelle is not a possessed doll she's an object that a demon is attached to. He will use her to insight fear but she does not have a life-force within her. She does not walk around, use her doll eyes to watch people or anything like you would expect from an evil doll movie. But it's not an evil doll movie it's a demonic possession movie. I think they were hoping that by keeping Annabelle really subtle she'd never fall into the horror movie trap of losing her fear factor. Like how the more you saw of Jaws the more he looked like a pool toy.

Why do people so frequently get told to read the book on a movie database?

[–] Sugarminx 9 years ago

Yeah I didn't necessarily want to see it running around like a hairy goat or anything, but some tiny movement occasionally would have been creepy.

What I would have loved, is to have the thing remain inanimate during the course of the film, and then at the very end, when all we see is Annabelle in the Warren's display case, to just have it incline its head, ever so slightly. I was waiting for that to happen and was disappointed that it did nothing.

That would have made a lovely, disturbing ending.

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[–] Sugarminx 9 years ago

Or better yet:

The doll is staring straight ahead.

The camera is slightly to the left or right of her.

The camera remains stationed on her face for a minute or two and then just when you think that's it, her eyes suddenly flick to look directly at the camera. The head doesn't turn. It's just the eyes that move to pin the audience with a stare. *shudder*

This was done to great effect in (don't laugh) Wallace and Gromit And The Wrong Trousers. I've never seen a more menacing penguine! When it looked as though he'd caught Gromit watching him, I was terrified! LOL!

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[–] matthew_548 9 years ago

Annabelle isn't the doll, its the girl that killed herself. She's the catalyst, the doll is just creepy looking and gets possessed by her. Its perfect