Is the 6th Conjuring Universe film worth your time? Is it truly a movie event? Or just for hard core horror nerds like us? In any case, we have a lot of fun with this review of Annabelle Comes Home. What’s good is good, and what’s bad is still kind of awesomely bad.

Making and Keeping Promises - Top of Show

NONSPOILER REVIEW

Cast and Crew - 2:45

Specs - 6:55

Plot Premise/Expectations - 10:24

Production Values:

Sight - 13:22

Sound - 17:48

Performances - 20:54

Script Thoughts - 24:12

Spoiler Warning - 29:03

SPOILER REVIEW

Nonspoiler Carryovers - 30:11

Worsts: Motivation Such An Aggravation - 36:16

Bests: Setups, Payoffs, BIG Scares - 39:22

Bests: Foreshadowing/Mouth Barfing - 42:45

Worsts: …in London - 45:32

Bests/Worsts: Ancillary Demons - 48:15

Finale Analysis - 50:18

Final Grades - 53:32

Your Homework/Our Social Medias - 54:49

Words of Wisdom/Coming Next From Us - 55:12

Yes, we promise things, like a shiny new movie event format. But life gets in the way, and Mikes can’t always agree on things after the first few production meetings. Should we probably make our programming announcements AFTER we settle on something new? Yes. Did we? No. So we’re doing our old Movie Event format for one more encore in this review of Annabelle Comes Home. The good news? We’re making a ton of progress on a new format. So stay tuned.

As usual, there’s a non-spoiler section followed by a full spoiler review. We were pleasantly surprised by one of the core performances, and we were happy to report that even when there’s a sinkhole in the plot, or in the logic of that plot, we still have a fun time yelling at the screen. There’s a lot of bests & worsts to include as highlights and lowlights. But as movie event pods tend to do, we generate all kinds of fire in equal direction.

In any case, we do come out on the positive side for this review. You can definitely chalk some of that up to us being big fans of horror and of The Conjuring Universe. So if you enjoyed this episode, make sure you go back to our other conjuring film reviews. We did cover all 5 previous James Wan productions in a mini-series re-watch last fall, and we did summon demons in the process.

As always, we want to know what you think. Did this movie suck and we’re just too blinded by our fandom to see it? Or did you enjoy the film like we did, or in other ways than we did? Let us know. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar!