I find the set-up strained, the scares predictable and the characters all flat and annoying. But my biggest problem with this film-and it's something the series double down on in the Nun-is so much of the fantastical and horror elements are overblown and incoherent. For the entire time of the series Annabelle the doll was a horror unto itself. Here is a horror magnet.

Much of the film is confusing but not in a disturbing way. Confusing in sense that the script does not care about storytelling, in-universe rules and the like. When the solution is to merely put something back where it was I rolled my eyes so hard because it was so anti-climatic. This is just a poorly planned film.