Hey what's up guys.
Today I'll show you a supernatural horror film: "Annabelle"!
Spoilers ahead, watch out and take care!
The film begins with the same opening as "The Conjuring" film, wherein two young women and
a man tell Ed and Lorraine Warren their strange experiences with the doll they believed to
be haunted, known as Annabelle.
It started out small, like its hand, leg, or head were in different positions.
Then it escalates to the doll moving around by itself.
They learned from a medium that the doll was possessed by a girl, named Annabelle Higgins.
She had lost her parents, and had taken too much of a liking to the doll.
They learned that Annabelle wanted to be friends, so as nurses themselves, the women let her
live in the doll.
However, things unexpectedly took a turn; and now, they're beyond terrified.
The scene then returns one year earlier to a church in Santa Monica, California, where
an expecting married couple, John and Mia, talk to their neighbors after the mass.
After that, they return home, where their neighbors ask whether they have decided on
the baby's name.
The couple begins to argue as John has decided to name the baby after his grandmother, without
consulting Mia first.
The neighbors excuse themselves after sensing the tension around the expecting couple.
The couple doesn't make a big out of it, and go home.
Later that day, John upsets Mia even more, when he shares that he hasn't informed anyone
in med school about becoming a father, because it will add to his stress.
John quickly apologizes upon seeing her reaction, and Mia does the same, explaining that pregnancy
hormones make her oversensitive.
Even though he has already apologized, John surprises Mia with a super ugly doll she's
been trying to find for ages, which she puts with the rest of her dolls.
Later that night, a murder at the Higgins residence wakes Mia up.
She wakes up John, and tells him to check on the neighbors next door.
They go downstairs, and John goes to the neighbors' house to investigate.
After a while of waiting, John comes out from the neighbors' residence, covered with blood
that's fortunately not his, and instructs Mia to call 9-1-1.
Mia quickly gets inside their house while John remains there.
She immediately informs 9-1-1 about the situation, and is about to head back outside, when she
hears a woman's voice, telling her she likes her dolls.
Mia stands back, frightened by that.
but a man covered with blood appears behind her suddenly, and stabs her in the side.
Mia falls to the ground while John comes running, and fights the man.
As they engage in a struggle, a woman suddenly shows up, and prepares to attack the couple.
but John quickly stops her.
After her, John focuses on fighting the man, while the woman locks herself in the nursery
room.
Police arrive just in time and shoot the man dead, saving the married couple.
As the medic carefully takes Mia outside, Mia gets a glimpse of the now-dead woman,
holding her newly bought doll, while there's a strange symbol drawn on the wall with blood.
While they're busy, a drop of vitaminic blood from the woman falls onto the doll's face,
and sinks into its eye.
The incident gets shown in a news report; and the assailants are Annabelle Higgins and
her unidentified boyfriend, who are said to have been part of a cult.
It turns out, Annabelle murdered her parents with the help of her boyfriend; and after
that, she committed suicide by slitting her throat open; while her boyfriend was shot
to death by the police.
After this incident, the doctor orders Mia to stay bedridden for the rest of her pregnancy.
Fortunately, her baby is still alive and okay, but there was some damage to her cervix.
After the check-up, the couple return to their house, and the incident makes Mia paranoid.
She constantly checks if the doors are locked, and even makes John promise her that he will
save the baby over her when something happens.
Later that night, the couple wake up to the rattling sound of her sewing machine.
John takes his bat out just in case; and as it turns out, Mia had left her machine plugged.
John unplugs it and checks the other rooms.
when he attempts to close the nursery room, He finds the new doll stuck at the door.
He puts it on the rocking chair and locks the room.
The following day, while hand-sewing in their room, Mia hears the rocking chair still creaking.
She checks it out, but the creaking suddenly stops as she reaches the room.
Mia doesn't make a big deal out of it, and closes the door.
Later that day, John informs Mia that he will be gone for a day to attend a conference,
which can help him get a position in a hospital.
As they walk toward their room, Mia tells John to throw out the doll, as she thinks
it's creepy and has been involved with mysterious happenings.
John takes it outside and dumps it in the bin.
The following day, the detective informs them the assailants were involved in a satanic
cult interested in the occult.
Mia refuses to know more about the assailants and the cult, as she rather forgets things.
Later that night, Mia falls asleep watching the television.
The following day, while she's busy watching the television and using the sewing machine
simultaneously, the stove suddenly turns on by itself, and heats up the popcorn.
Mia accidentally cuts her finger on the machine; so she tends to it, unaware that the popcorn
has made a fire.
Shortly after, she finally smells the smoke and discovers the fire.
as she backs away to leave the house, Mia trips over a chair and falls on her stomach.
She crawls instead, but an unseen force suddenly grabs her.
Just then, policemen barge into the house and pull her out.
John, who works in the hospital, hurriedly runs to find Mia.
He quickly apologizes for not being there.
but Mia cuts him off, and tells him to look behind him.
It turns out, Mia has given birth to a healthy baby girl.
The family moves to a new apartment in Pasadena, California, since Mia never wants to return
to that house again, especially with their baby.
The couple still attends their church, and the father even takes a picture of Mia with
their baby daughter after the mass.
While organizing her dolls, Mia finds the thrown-out doll in one of the boxes.
John swears that he threw it out, and although they don't know how it got there, Mia decides
to keep it with the rest of her dolls.
One day, while they're both asleep, Annabelle's ghost appears and leans onto the baby's crib.
This causes Mia to wake up after hearing her baby crying.
but she dismisses it as Annabelle's ghost has vanished.
Later that day, Mia decides to take her baby out.
On her way, Mia meets two neighbor children coloring on the stairwell.
The girl tries to talk to Mia; but the boy reminds her that they shouldn't talk to strangers.
Mia ignores their bullshit as they're just kids.
Mia passes by a unique bookshop where she meets the owner, Evelyn, who gives her a book
to read to her baby.
As they return home, Mia finds the kids' drawings, which show a continuous animation of Mia wheeling
her baby in the carriage, and letting it go in the path of an oncoming truck, making her
baby dead.
Mia shows them to John after he comes home from work.
Mia is very concerned about the drawings; but John reminds her not to make a big deal.
John even promises to have a nice dinner with her tomorrow night.
However, John still hasn't come home, so Mia spends their supposed dinner date alone.
She stops the music playing from the phonograph, and cleans the dining table when the music
suddenly begins playing again.
As soon as she stops it again, Mia hears indistinct whispering coming from the windows.
She slowly walks towards them to check it out; but the curtains suddenly move by themselves,
causing her to fall to the ground from shock.
A little girl then passes by her, giggling.
so Mia looks for her, just in case she's hallucinating.
She finds the little girl in the nursery room, staring at her.
As the door slowly closes, the little girl begins running toward her; and then she suddenly
turns into Annabelle.
Mia backs away, screaming in fear.
but as she looks around, Annabelle has disappeared.
when John comes home, Mia immediately informs hin about this; so John suggests they visit
their parish priest for advice.
He advises them not to be each other's weakness, because the rough patch they hit is just the
start of their lives.
They need to be stronger to face any challenges and rough patches ahead of them.
This temporarily fixes Mia's anxiety.
One day, after Mia puts her baby in the crib, the door suddenly closes by itself.
After that, she goes to the basement, and leaves some stuff when she hears a baby crying,
followed by tires squeaking.
Mia checks her surroundings, only to find a bassinet at the end of the hallway.
Mia slowly approaches it as she keeps hearing the baby wailing.
but then it suddenly stops as she stops in front of it.
Mia checks the bassinet, looking for the baby; but instead, a demonic hand suddenly grabs
her arm.
This prompts her to run to the elevator; but it won't come up.
She remains on the basement floor, so Mia has no choice but to use the stairs.
Mia's in panic as she climbs up the stairs, hearing her baby's cries.
She enters their apartment just in time, before the demon catches up to her.
She dismisses the strange symbol on her arm, caused by the demon grabbing her, and runs
to her baby.
The following day, the symbol mysteriously disappears, like it was never there.
Because of the recent events, Mia contacts the detective in charge of their case.
He informs her the cult Annabelle and her boyfriend were in, is called "The Disciples
of The Ram."
The symbols on the crime scene and on her arm are the same, and possibly connected to
the cult.
After this, she goes to Evelyn's bookstore, where Mia confesses to Evelyn that she thinks
their family is being haunted by a ghost.
Evelyn disagrees with this, explaining that ghosts haunt specific places.
She adds that cults don't summon ghosts; they summon demons that want a human soul.
Evelyn shares that she had a daughter who passed away when she was Mia's age.
She died in a car accident caused by Evelyn, which made her so distraught.
The guilt was eating her that she attempted to end her life by cutting her wrist.
However, she claims to have heard her daughter's voice, telling her that it wasn't her time.
Evelyn reassures Mia that she's not crazy for trying to protect her family from a sinister
spirit.
While returning home, Mia sees Annabelle's ghost, holding her doll through the mirrors
one day.
She's too stunned to notice the bassinet has gone to the road, and has been hit by a coming
truck.
Mia holds her baby in her arms tightly, still in shock, and thankful at the same time that
the bassinet only carried her canned goods.
Mia returns to their apartment, where she reads a book called "The Devil's Welcome,"
which she bought from Evelyn's bookstore.
She discovers that what the detective and Evelyn said is true; the demons prey on the
soul of the innocent.
The demon haunting their family wants an innocent soul: their baby's.
Mia leaves her for a while to check the nursery room.
However, she gets locked out, so she repeatedly attempts to open the door; but it won't budge.
Mia monitors her baby through the door gap, and she screams in fear as heavy books fall
around her daughter.
suddenly, the doll falls down and stares at her, prompting her to break the doorknob to
open the door.
Mia rushes to her baby and takes her.
However, the doll appears to stand on its own, and then floats mid-air.
but it's actually being controlled by the demon.
right then, John comes running after hearing Mia's screams.
He finds their home in a mess; and Mia stands there, beyond terrified to explain everything.
With this incident, they meet the priest, who explains that demons use objects as conduits
to achieve their desired goal: the human soul.
The priest has not had many ideas about getting rid of the doll, so he takes it to the church.
He suggests that storing the haunted doll in a sacred place, might weaken the demon
enough to stop it from returning.
On the way to the church, the doll has turned more grayish, and its bluish eyes have turned
into a color of crimson red.
The priest arrives at the church safely, but he feels a presence behind him as he walks
away.
He turns around and finds Annabelle staring at him, prompting him to rush inside for a
mama hug.
But before he can get in, a powerful force throws him on his back.
Annabelle snatches the doll away from him, as his blood spreads on the ground.
John gets informed of the incident by the nuns, while he's working in the hospital.
Meanwhile, Mia returns to their apartment with Evelyn.
Later that night, the priest finally wakes up. he immediately informs John that it was
indeed Annabelle's spirit that harmed him, and that she will take a soul no matter what.
John calls Mia and instructs her to leave; but Mia cannot understand him due to the static.
As the call ends, Mia hears a banging on their door.
She checks who it is, and finds the priest's back, so she opens it.
However, it's the sinister spirit, and it screams to her that God may have mercy on
her soul.
The door suddenly slams shut.
after witnessing the demon's presence, Evelyn tells her that they need to leave now.
Mia rushes to the nursery room to take her baby; but her crib is empty.
Mia looks around and notices all her dolls have been vandalized.
Evelyn insists they go to the church first, but Mia refuses to leave without her baby.
Suddenly, the demon falls from the ceiling, and locks Evelyn out of the apartment.
Mia searches the whole apartment looking for her baby.
As she returns to the nursery room, Mia finds the phrase "her soul", written in red crayon
on the ceiling.
Mia then finds the doll in the crib, so she grabs it and repeatedly smashes it, before
throwing it out on the floor.
The doll then appears to turn into her baby, bloodied and dead.
Mia runs over to her, and cries as she thinks she may have killed her daughter.
But then, it turns into one of Mia's giggling dolls.
She screams in frustration, and asks the demon what it wants.
The window then opens amidst whispering sounds, with the phrase "your soul" written in red.
Mia realizes that the demon wants her soul in exchange for her baby daughter.
right then, John runs home as Evelyn attempts to open the door.
They break the door, and find Mia ready to jump out the window, with Annabelle in her
hands.
John quickly pulls her back before she can jump, telling her there must be another way.
Mia won't calm down, so Evelyn takes the doll and sacrifices herself to the demon, to atone
for her daughter's death.
She plunges out of the window and hits the pavement.
As they worry about what's gonna happen next, the couple hears their baby's whimpers.
They look into the crib; and there she is, safe and sound.
The couple embraces their daughter tightly as they mourn Evelyn's death.
Fast-forward to six months later after the incident.
The couple has moved on with their lives, and has not seen Annabelle or the haunting
doll.
Elsewhere, an old lady, the mother of one of the nurses in the opening, enters a store,
looking for a present for her daughter.
She then spots a doll that is said to be a rare collector's item.
Upon hearing this, the woman purchases Annabelle.
The film ends with a director's note, saying that the Annabelle doll resides in a case
in Ed and Lorraine Warren's little museum.
The case and the doll are blessed by a priest twice a month, to retain the demonic presence.
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