This is more a haunted house or scary museum tour than an actual story, and honestly, I'd be fine with that. I like scary movies as long as they're scary, even if the story is weak.

The problem I have is how they took a girl who is desperate to come to terms with the death of her father and wants so badly to see him again that she'll do just about anything - and turned her into someone I just wanted to die because she was so evil. She almost burns the house down after not watching the oven, she deliberately does anything she is warned not to do, and when Judy screams she does nothing to go help. This is the entire first half of the movie, by the way - scene after scene of showing what a monster Daniela is, before finally showing us the real monsters we came to see. But by this point, I'm more scared of Daniela than any of the cursed objects because she's going to get us all killed. If that was the writers intention, I think it was a bad idea. If that wasn't their intention then they're not very good writers.

The thing is, Daniela's not evil, and they eventually try to make that clear, but by then it's too late. The writers make her the bad guy, and they really drive the point home by having her go above and beyond to break every rule, as well as break and enter, and it really hurts the movie because she's not the monster I came to see, even when they turn her into one.

Just about everything else about the movie I thought was good, scary fun, although it didn't have a lot of meat behind it because, like I said, it's like going into a haunted house where you encounter one scary thing after another where the purpose is to scare you rather than to tell a story.

I think this might have worked better as an anthology where individual stories were told about some of the scary items in the Warren's museum and then they all got loose somehow, Annabelle the conduit that makes them more active or something - but not because a grieving, angsty, bratty teen inadvertently yet purposely lets her out.

I still like this movie and the whole Conjuring universe, but I'd rather they concentrate on the monsters and not wait til the movie's half over to show them. You want Daniela to be a monster? Leave her locked in that room, then commit her to an asylum or something after they finally find her driven out of her mind by what she's done.