![]() ![]() One reason the film feels so blah is that there's so little to grab onto. It leads to a climactic showdown which is loud, but not particularly scary. He instead sends Anna to a wisecracking ex-priest (Raymond Cruz) who has turned curandero to battle the supernatural. That apparently was a prerequisite for director Michael Chaves so he can stage increasingly tiresome jump scares, as La-Llo constantly comes screeching into the frame, like some kind of malevolent Jack-in-the-box in a wedding dress.Ī kindly priest (Tony Amendola) declines to help Anna, because he once got involved with evil himself through a frightening doll called – wait for it – Annabelle (now you see how this ties into "The Conjuring" universe). ![]() The film is set in 1973, which is presented as a literal kind of dark ages in which people rarely turned on the lights at home.
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