This film has some good acting and i think Mckenna Grace really is a great and up and coming actress but wow is it the most predictable and meaningless horror film ever. I truly cannot believe the amount of times I was genuinely convinced that the plot and scares of this film were plucked out of a hat at random and the fate of the film was left to chance. I hate how in horror films we no longer understand what we are to fear, we don't really get an insight in to the powers of the so called 'malicious spirits' but instead we get random scenes of an old dude in a hall way with pennies in his eyes who just stands there pointlessly only to not even be scary but just drop the pennies on the floor and vanish.

More on my point of not understanding their powers, it seems like in modern horror we aren't scared of what's going to happen because of our lack of understanding the situation that the characters are in. We are left in the dark, especially in this film. Without too many spoilers the general plot is that all the spirits in the house are released from their 'prisons' by Annabelle and some upset yet fearless girl desperate to contact her dead father. Because of this there is no where near enough time for us to learn the abilities or limits of these monsters and therefore we aren't scared of what could happen and we have no way to relate with the characters (so the film lacks suspense) but instead we just have to be scared of jump scares. However the film manages to screw this up as well. Admittedly I did jump at 1 or 2 but other than that the film feels lacking in actual ideas in their scares; as I said earlier, pulled out of a hat at random. The scariest thing was the liquid to air ratio in my tango iceblast.

Finally... Why is Bob a character? He just has a guitar. That is essentially the extent of Bob's involvement in the film.

All in all, the next time i watch a horror film i'm hoping to see creative scares with a monster/creature which we learn about, characters that make decisions with their brain and not their 'special horror film mindset of being an idiot' which everyone in horror films seems to have now and a story line that doesn't end the exact same as it started with no change in story or characters (chraracter development) or is without consequences (unless cleverly executed.)