The Conjuring series is maybe my favorite current horror series, but this one really was a shell of its predecessors.

Ed and Lorraine Warren were largely nonexistent throughout, and the movie centered around what I thought were peripheral characters. The evil was meandering and Annabelle was hardly the lead despite having her name on the cover.

I hate to say it, but nostalgia carried this one to a large extent. I still liked it, albeit begrudgingly.