Half life 2 annabelle movie#
Half life 2 annabelle tv#

Led by Sister Charlotte ( Stephanie Sigman), the girls vary in age-again, like the sisters in the original film-but focus immediately falls on Janice (Taliha Bateman), weakened by polio, and her sweet best friend Linda ( Lulu Wilson). In this case, itвЂ™s a group of orphans who are allowed to live in a large, isolated home when their orphanage closes. Just as that box office hit centered on a group of sisters caught in a nightmare, вЂњAnnabelle: CreationвЂќ is essentially a haunted house flick with another collection of young girls faced with things that go bump in the night. TheyвЂ™re in a horror movie.While the title makes clear that this is an origin story for one of the creepiest dolls in film history, it also sets up its own characters and universe in which to play, one that echoes the construction and themes from James WanвЂ™s original film more than any of the works that have followed. Within 15 mins., the audience is screaming en masse, вЂњThrow out the damn doll!вЂќ (And not in your own trash can.) But John and Mia canвЂ™t do that. When Mia says, вЂњI think my family is being haunted by a ghost,вЂќ Evelyn calmly replies, вЂњAisle four.вЂќ Of course, Annabelle pops up in both cities. Mia, who is oddly bereft of all companionship, strikes up a conversation with Evelyn (a slumming Alfre Woodard), who runs the local occult book store.

Half life 2 annabelle tv#

But she has modest telekinetic powers: she can make a chair rock, turn off a TV set, turn on a record player, all in aid of terrifying Mia while her doctor husband John (generically handsome Ward Horton) is away at work.ДЄfter the gang attack, the couple moves 30 miles from Santa Monica to Pasadena, yet still attends the same Catholic church to avail themselves of the sympathetic powers of Father Perez (Tony Amendola). Annabelle doesnвЂ™t speak and rarely moves.

Half life 2 annabelle movie#

SheвЂ™s no knife-wielding Chucky, from the ChildвЂ™s Play series, or Richard MathesonвЂ™s great Zuni fetish doll from the 1975 TV movie Trilogy of Terror. The moviesвЂ™ Annabelle is an elaborate, enormous Victorian creature, about the size of a four-year-old, with gaping eyes, blood-red lips and, later, cracks in the skin. The вЂњrealвЂќ Annabelle doll, which is locked away in the WarrensвЂ™ museum and blessed twice a month by a Catholic priest, was a regular Raggedy Ann. And, as Mia, weвЂ™ll cast a pretty English actress named Annabelle (Wallis). But we also need a connection to The Conjuring, so weвЂ™ll work in the doll as the embodiment of teenaged Annabelle, the woman who stabbed Mia. WeвЂ™ll also invoke the funeral-black baby carriage from the RosemaryвЂ™s Baby poster. WorldвЂ™s creepiest movie pitch: What if itвЂ™s 1969, and a pregnant blond, but not Sharon Tate, were to survive an attack from a Manson-type gang and give birth to a child, like the baby in the Polanski film, who was stalked by an avatar of the Devil? To make the connection clear, weвЂ™ll call the young woman Mia (for Mia Farrow, who played Rosemary) and her husband John (for John Cassavetes, as RosemaryвЂ™s spouse). To this template, screenwriter Gary Duberman added elements of the Charles Manson вЂњFamily,вЂќ a gang of Satanic cultists who in 1969 invaded the Benedict Canyon home of PolanskiвЂ™s wife, Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant with their child, and slaughtered her and four others. Leonetti, is based on nothing truer than memories of RosemaryвЂ™s Baby, Roman PolanskiвЂ™s 1968 horror classic about a young woman impregnated by Satan.

This one, directed by Conjuring cinematographer John R.