A whole new team created this spin-off from the original The Conjuring. Annabelle is something like a prequel of sorts, telling the origin story of the doll that we saw in the original movie.
I doubt this the real origin of the doll as it wasn't stated anywhere that this was "based on real events". It's just another cash-grab from the success of The Conjuring.
Director John R. Leonetti created some very good and scary moments for the movie. Unfortunately more than half of them already appeared in the last trailer, even one of the best one which was the little girl running through the closing door. That would have carried more impact had it been left out.
One of the best thrilling sequence was that elevator scene. Just with the camera angle and the lighting, tension was created. Everyone around me in the cinema were terrified even when nothing was going on. I thought that was the best part.
But Leonetti failed to make full use of his cast. Annabelle Wallis (coincidence maybe?) is a very pretty actress with a beauty that can be described as classical. Her performance was very inconsistent. When the situation required her to be frantic and terrified, I didn't think the director pulled the proper performance out of her.
Same goes to Ward Horton who never really had the right facial expressions when things got heated up. Only the veterans like Tony Amendola and Alfre Woodard gave satisfactory performances.
Also, the script by Gary Dauberman was very thin. There was no plot at all. For the most part throughout the running time I was just waiting for things to happen because there was no story. If you just wanted to know what the story of the movie was, just watch the first and last 10 minutes and you would have understood everything.
Every thing in the middle were just scares and frights that didn't mean anything.
So for that, even though some of the scares were brilliant, the lack of any plot was the movie's downfall.
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