MYST: Annabelle

To kick off fourth quarter I decided to watch the scarily anticipated movie Annabelle. Going into the movie it was a Monday afternoon and I had finished all my work. So I decided why not end the worst day of the week with a movie, right? After seeing The Conjuring and admiring the writers ability to go down the common path of a spooky haunted house, they still managed to make audiences jump out of their seats. I was eager to see what screen writer Chad Hayes was going to throw down this time.




However, I would not get many hopes up high for Annabelle. Perhaps my feeling toward Annabelle could be because I am often desensitized to movies such as these. I would probably rate this as a B-,  aside from the occasional scary jump out scenes I felt like the plot had been nor scary or complex enough. To me the best horror movies are the ones with the most complex plot that leaves people still trying to comprehend it after the movie. The movie showed a little bit of this in the scene with the cult members invading the home of the couple and trying to sacrifice them to the demonic doll, but this all seemed too shallow. My advice to Chad Hayes next time would be make a deeper history with the doll and explain why it became a product of Satan.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VrHBt-cOl8



Like most horror movies often times the victim is in an old sketchy looking area or in this case the mother is stranded in the sketchy basement of her apartment. As fear grows for the safety of the mothers baby the demon never takes a day off from getting in her head. The room is poorly lit making it obvious to the audience another demonic episode will happen. As she seeks the safe well lit looking elevator for refuge from the monsters the victim has to be let down again with the shut off of the lights to symbolize the fight between the woman and the possessed doll. Lastly for some reason as the woman begins to leave the elevator only to the sound and vision of thunder and lighting perhaps to captivate the audiences attention toward the idea anything can happen right now.