Annabelle Comes Home's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
Name your fear trigger, and it?s probably there, somewhere, in 'Annabelle Comes Home'. It looks like a horror film, but it?s really the horror equivalent of speed dating.
Indiewire
In 'Annabelle Comes Home', as with its precedents, the jump scares are the main endpoint; everything else exists to prop them up. But 'The Conjuring' movies make an effort to care about their characters before terrifying them every which way, and this one gives them ample reasons to be terrified.
Roger Ebert
Dauberman swiftly utilizes every nook and cranny of the Warren house for maximum spookiness?predictably, the well-choreographed scenes in the artifact room are the film?s strongest.
Entertainment Weekly
There?s a playfulness in this pile-up of fear-factors, and you will weep for a chicken. 'Annabelle Comes Home' suffers from terminal blandness, though, unable to develop any real terror.
The Playlist
The film succeeds as a fun, late-night moviegoing experience, though those looking for something more substantial or memorable, may want to just wait for the next ?Conjuring? film.
The Hollywood Reporter
Fluid camerawork and tightly controlled editing, which transform the Warrens' home into a genuinely haunted house, emphasize Dauberman's dark vision, abetted by franchise vet Joseph Bishara's shiveringly shrill score.
The Wrap
Apart from a few performances (notably Mckenna Grace?s), this third 'Annabelle' outing is a lifeless catalog of ineffective spooky stuff.
New York Times
Predictability is only one problem in a movie choking on haunted-house clichés, and so short of genuine scares that its most traumatizing sight might be the Warrens? hideous wallpaper.