"Welcome to the home of The Conjuring Universe" in Annabelle Comes Home. This supernatural horror film written and directed by Gary Dauberman, and based on the legend of the Annabelle doll. It is the third Annabelle film following Annabelle (2014) and Annabelle: Creation (2017), and it is the seventh installment in the Conjuring Universe franchise. Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her "safely" behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest's holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target--the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.
In early April 2018, Warner Bros. announced the then-untitled new film in the Conjuring franchise for a July 3, 2019 release date. In May, it was announced that the film would be the third instalment in the Annabelle series, with Dauberman to once again pen the script, based on a treatment co-written by Dauberman and James Wan, and make his directorial debut. During the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con, Wan and producer Peter Safran revealed the film's events would take place directly after The Conjuring (2013) and would focus on the doll after she was kept in the glass case in the Warrens' museum. Therefore, the movie would take place in the Warren house. By mid October, Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, and Katie Sarife were cast, with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprising their roles as Ed and Lorraine Warren. Grace replaced Sterling Jerins as Judy Warren. At the same time, principal photography commenced and wrapped in mid December. Filming took place in Los Angeles with a budget of $32 million. In February 2019, Joseph Bishara, the composer of The Conjuring, Annabelle, The Conjuring 2, and The Curse of La Llorona, was revealed to score the film. Though slated for July 2019, the release date was later moved up to June 28, and then to June 26. The film is dedicated to Lorraine Warren, who passed away in mid April 2019.
The film stars Wilson, Farmiga, Grace, Iseman, and Sarife. The cast gave solid performances that added to the tension of the film as the titular haunted doll's horrors are unleashed one by one. Even if the Warrens themselves were under utilised.
Annabelle Comes Home adds another strong chapter to the Conjuring franchise–and offers further proof that freaky-looking dolls remain reliably terrifying. The film is wickedly terrifying, and manages to conjure some effective scares. Like Annabelle: Creation, it is closer in tone and old-school psychological fright tactics to the original film than either The Conjuring 2 or Annabelle. Even though it can't hold a flickering candle to the James Wan-directed entries in the series. This effective yet empty-headed horror movie goes to show how eager audiences are to be scared, and how even an unsightly doll can do the trick when the spirit is willing.
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