Annabelle Comes Home gets off to a great start with a semi-chilling, fog-filled prologue involving the Warrens transporting the evil doll Annabelle to their home to lock it up. It soon starts to introduce the characters who are likable and engaging group. Then we patiently wait for something scary to happen...and wait...and wait...and wait some more.

Annabelle Comes Home has all the ingredients for a great horror film. The basic concept is solid, the characters and acting are above average, the cinematography is appropriately dark and moody, but the film fails to come to life until the final 20 minutes. For such a short film, that's an awful lot of build up and one can't help but feel that's the whole experience wasn't quite worth it.

Annabelle Comes Home is far from a bad film, but it might have needed a few more drafts of the script to become a truly great fright flick.