June’s “Annabelle Comes Home” is an intriguing fest of
fascination, futility and a journey into the regions of sheer evil.
Locked in the house of demonologists
Ed and Lorraine Warren, Annabelle, the possessed doll can no longer terrorize
and destroy those around her, right? According to Ed Warren, destroying the
doll Annabelle would make it impossible to contain all the evil that dwells in
the den of the doll itself.
Judy Warren portrayed by Mckenna Grace is an only
child of Ed and Lorraine. Annabelle, the doll is caged upon a sacred glassed cage,
and locked away in another room a teenager who’s curious about the occult and
the afterlife would never be able to get into.
Annabelle is never released from beyond the sacred
glass, and Judy and her two teen-aged babysitters bore us movie-goers playing
1970s board games. Of course, I’m being facetious, the curious teenager trying
to contact her dead father releases Annabelle’s soul in a foolish attempt to reconnect
with her deceased father.
Annabelle, the doll is both graphic and phycological
in the ways she torments and tortures her victims. The baleful soul dwelling in
Annabelle awakes many other evil entities amidst the Warren household, conjuring
up infinite fears for the girls.
The fate of humanity resides upon an elementary school
aged girl, and two teenage ones, now how is this not Halloween movie magic?
Rated R because of graphic images of death and deceit,
“Annabelle Comes Home” is a fantastic Halloween movie for the masses. Three and
a half stars for the lasted installment of the Annabelle films.
Mark Izzy Schurr
