I feel like this score might be a little harsh, because for the first half of the movie i didn't hate it, it wasn't egregiously bad, it was just uneventful and tame. a couple scares here and there but mostly nothing.

but then the second half of the movie unfortunately continues this trend. it stays boring, it's not even a tiny bit scary or suspenseful, and there are so many smh moments and "really?" moments. with about 20 minutes left i kept saying to myself, "who cares."

it doesn't even feel like an annabelle movie. i've watched everything in the conjuring universe, and rewatched the annabelle movies before this one. it felt nothing like any of them. it could have been called generic horror movie #23,542.

this is not the worst movie in the world. i've seen drastically worse from horror films. but it completely fails as a horror film because it is completely boring and zero scary (1 viewing, 6/29/2020)