Annabelle Comes Home

A back-to-basics take on the ghost-story gauntlet run; compared to the previous films, it's worth its weight in spare doll parts.

Proudly retro and coyly innocent, it's the perfect movie for a tweeny sleepover.

As for Annabelle herself, her case may be closed, but we now know that it can be reopened anytime by the guilt-ridden, the transgressive or the curious, which is, at times, all of us.

Here's a horror sequel that wants to be anything other than what it is: a picture about an evil doll.

The reason the movie works, I think, is simple. The actresses are all strong.

"Annabelle Comes Home" is so low stakes it's barely a movie - more like a very special "Brady Bunch" episode in hell.

As the end credits roll you are in no doubt that Annabelle Comes Home is by far the weakest in the franchise, shorn of the horror that has permeated many of the previous titles in favour of something tamer -- Annabelle Lite, if you will.

'Annabelle Comes Home' with jump scares and themes about grief.

A welcome respite from what has become the trademark Conjuring-verse jump scare, Annabelle Comes Home is an entertaining watch that teases several new directions the series may take.

Middle-school horror in its near-perfect form.