Annabelle is locked in a sacred glass case in the couple's artifacts room that is blessed by Father Gordon to ensure the evil is contained. During the drive back home, the doll summons spirits to attack Ed, but he narrowly survives. Plot ĭemonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren confiscate the Annabelle doll from nurses Debbie and Camilla, who claimed that the doll often performed violent activities in their apartment. It grossed over $231 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics, who found it less frightening than its predecessors. Principal photography commenced by mid-October and officially wrapped in December 2018 in Los Angeles.Īnnabelle Comes Home was theatrically released in the United States on June 26, 2019, by Warner Bros. Later that month, it was announced that the film would be another installment in the Annabelle series, with Dauberman signed on to write and direct the film in his directorial debut, based on a story treatment written by Dauberman and Wan. Pictures announced that a then-untitled film in the Conjuring Universe franchise would be released on July 3, 2019. The film stars Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, and Katie Sarife, along with Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, who reprise their roles as Ed and Lorraine Warren. It serves as a sequel to 2014's Annabelle and 2017's Annabelle: Creation, and as the seventh installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise. Things start to go sideways on the evening that the Warrens’ 10-year-old daughter Judy (Mckenna Grace) plans to celebrate her birthday early with teen babysitter Mary Ellen (Madison Iseman) while her parents are out of town on a case.Annabelle Comes Home is a 2019 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Gary Dauberman, in his directorial debut, from a story by Dauberman and James Wan, who also served as producer with Peter Safran. The religious rite seems to immobilize Annabelle for about a year, before an uninvited visitor disrupts the enforced calm of the artifacts room. Like a queen installed upon her throne, the Warrens place Annabelle on a chair inside a locked glass cabinet as the centerpiece of their collection, followed by the local parish priest’s recitation of protective blessings and the sprinkling of holy water. Among the most recognizable pieces, some glimpsed in previous films, are a haunted wedding dress, formerly worn by a murderous bride a demented wind-up monkey toy an eerily off-key music box and a vast assortment of evil appliances and trinkets. Once they arrive safely back home, the most distinguishing feature of the Warrens’ modest split-level Connecticut house is revealed: the dimly lit “artifacts room,” where the couple keep many of the spiritually tainted objects retrieved from their harrowing cases. Convinced it’s “a beacon for other spirits,” Lorraine attempts to warn Ed just before he almost gets run down by a semi-trailer. After their car breaks down outside a cemetery on a dark, mist-enshrouded country road, Annabelle’s presence in the back seat rouses the dead from their graves. Two frightened young nurses in possession of the haunted toy gladly relinquish it to the Warrens after they determine that a demon has taken over the strikingly unattractive plaything in an attempt somehow to possess a human soul.Īnnabelle Comes Home picks up as the Warrens cautiously transport the doll back to their home in an early scene that reveals the premise for all the mayhem that eventually ensues. A seeming throwaway moment inserted to establish the Warrens’ professional credentials, the 1968-set scene finds the intrepid couple evaluating the strange circumstances surrounding a child-sized doll known as Annabelle, clothed in a frilly white frock. Still, with the rare coincidence of two demonic doll features debuting less than a week apart, there’s little doubt that Annabelle Comes Home will not only dominate Child’s Play, but likely many of the weekend’s other new offerings as well.Īfter filling in the backstory of the cursed doll’s idiosyncratic origins in Annabelle: Creation, the latest installment circles back to the very beginning: the introduction to the first Conjuring film. With Annabelle Comes Home, however, franchise screenwriter and now director Gary Dauberman departs from real-life events to extend the Conjuring mythology in an almost entirely fictionalized direction, with noticeably less impact.
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