Annabelle Comes Home is set in the same world as The Conjuring, although Lorraine and Ed Warren (Vera Farmiga & Patrick Wilson respectively) are more bookends for this particular film than main protagonists. This gives the movie a slight spinoff vibe, but still has a nice amount of world building and lore added to the couples exploits.

This time the adventure doesn’t leave their house and centers on their daughter Judy, competently played by Mckenna Grace. She’s backed up by her babysitter The Blonde One, and her troublemaker friend The Brunette One.

It then graduated to a woman across the aisle from me jerking her arm out at one particular bit and knocking her wineglass onto the floor, shattering. This is seconds before an actual glass on screen shattered.

If you watched 2016s Conjuring 2 you would have caught a glimpse of the Warren’s back room, full of trinkets and cursed objects. Almost like a trophy room of objects that are too dangerous to be left out in public. Among these artifacts is Annabelle, a doll that’s possessed by an unearthly presence that wants a human body.

Long story short, pretty much everything in this room gets released and the house turns into a monster movie marathon.

Well done humour breaks up long moments of suspense, and every scare feels earned. None of the jumps come across cheap. I’m going to give Director Gary Dauberman an A+ in this department.