The Reel Rejects - ANNABELLE (2014) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: December 5, 2024

THE CREEPY DOLL TO RULE THEM ALL!! Visit https://huel.com/rejects to get 15% off your order! Annabelle Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials:�� Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ The Scream Queens RETURN to continue their journey through James Wan's The Conjuring Universe as they give their FIRST-TIME Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, & Full Movie Spoiler Review for the spinoff movie which tells the story of a couple experiencing terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists... Annabelle stars Annabelle Wallis (Malignant, The Mummy), Ward Horton (The Wolf of Wallstreet), Alfre Woodard (Luke Cage, 12 Years a Slave), Tony Amendola (The Mask of Zorro), Kerry O'Malley (The Killer), Brian Howe (Westworld), & MORE! Roxy & Tara REACT to all the Best Scenes & Scariest Moments including the Trapped By a Demon Scene, Have Mercy on Your Soul Scene, What Do You Want? Scene, My Sacrifice Scene, Devil on Your Back Scene, A Little Ghost Girl Scene, No Dolls in Church Scene, & BEYOND!! Follow Roxy Striar YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TheWhirlGirls Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roxystriar/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/roxystriar Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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you can watch the watch longs there no we just do our our piece at the end where we talk about it those go up on podcast form yes correct um everything else check us out on youtube and our social so um man okay it's a good movie yeah good movie yeah i understand why they did it I think it'll kind of just grows the world. Like, we know that there's going to be a nun franchise, too. So then we've got the Annabelle franchise, the Nunn franchise. It's all part of the conjuring. We've got our main conjuring movies.

And this creepiest part of all of this is that there is validity to it. There's truth to it, right? Based on a true story of sorts. Right. These ones really get to me, man. Yeah. because the drama aspect of it and the people dying and giving

like there's there's a lot of sadness that woman was so sad that she felt like it was better for her to go because she'd already lost her kid and this was her time and it was just very it was upsetting yeah it's upsetting um I really was so grateful

for the relationship in the movie I loved the partnership they had yeah you know if I was him i'd been like absolutely hell no um am i choosing uh oh the baby over yeah but i was glad that it's what she needed in the moment to hear right but he really loved her and he believed her and he said i'll always believe you and that that was valuable message as well i got to look up some of the name of the cast because you know yeah it went small and you didn't help me you don't care about my

obsession with the actor's names um okay let me tell you was I who was that and was it who I thought it was this is the question of the hour yeah because I'm never going to know their name fuck me dude that's who it was and it said it at the end Tony and O'Dola you know who I thought it was you said F Murphy something F Murray Abraham he looked exactly like F Murray Abraham who um most recently is I watch in mythic quest but he was in inside lewin davis uh grand budapest hotel amadeus he's been in everything you Oh, I know you're talking about. Once you said Grand Budapest, I was like, oh, he looks exactly like him.

They look so very similar. I was like, is that him? It just looked like him, but it was not him. They look a lot of like. It was Tony Amandola, who I feel like we know from other things. This movie came out in 2014. It looked really good. For being 10 years old, I mean, this could come out today.

Totally. Yeah, no, it looks great. I agree. I feel like. Yeah, we're both a little like dumbfounded right now about. Well, I just feel like they did a really good job of keeping us on the edge of our seats of like kind of, it's just, you feel a lot of anxiety when you're watching this, which is great. You know, there's a lot of buildup. And when there are scares, I mean, that one, demon one really got me.

But we're really mostly following the point of view of a mother caught in the winds of a demon and what it does to her life with her, her child. But having a stranger almost, you know, even though they became friends at the end, a stranger gave her life so that she could remain a mother to her child. And the way that they wrote it, I like that she would understand the most what it means to be a mother to a child. And she lost that opportunity. Who the name, the friend, the book's her owner. So it makes the most sense that she would end up giving her life to say, I know how important it is to be a mother to a child. And she no longer has that opportunity. As we saw, she already tried to commit suicide. And then, you know, she gives her life for them. But I think. And it works. And it works, which is, which is nuts. Maybe appears again. By the way, that actress, Alfred Woodard, at the whole time, we were both like, yeah, and she's in a million things. But she is Mariah.

Luke Cage, which is how I should have absolutely recognized her. She is like unbelievable in the show, Luke Cage. Did you watch any of those Netflix? That's a while ago, right? Long time ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, not that. I mean, 2016 to 2018. Yeah, a while ago. Yeah.

Anything pre-pandemic feels like 50 years. Exactly. Yeah. But she's been a million things as well, 12 years of slave, Star Trek first contact. Yeah, she was really good. And she obviously knew what she was doing with us. She was toying with our emotions because I didn't trust her. Right. And that was

an acting choice. It wasn't any of her lines. It was the performance. Agreed. Where I was like, you're on my radar. And then adding in that the devil book was in the front of her bookshop added another sense of disbelief of like, do we believe this lady? Is she part

of the cult? Why is she watching them? What's going on? They added a lot within this film to make us not trust her and throw us off the scent that she would end up indeed being their savior, which is, um, you know, crazy. I think, I think it's wild to, to see this story of maybe it's like, hey, don't, don't collect anything because they could be holding some bad juju in them. It's possible. And I have a bunch of collections. Maybe I should toss them all out. Exactly. Right. Where it's like, it's sort of like becomes a gluttonous thing where

it's like collections mean, because she had, she had so many. And then people are, are vying after this like we've been looking all over for this like when they want a thing and then as we saw at the end the he's like absolutely ring me up where that is also you know where they say not to be not to be gluttonous like if you're a Christian whatever like that's like a sin but it's like also kind of like a devil thing I think too which they're they're somewhat highlighting in this film the guy I haven't looked up the trivia yet but I'm just looking at the director because I didn't recognize his name.

He, the director, John R. Leonetti was the D.P. of the conjuring. Oh, how cool is that? That's great.

That's awesome. It makes perfect sense. Also, another franchise we're thinking of doing after this, which you guys let us know in the comments. He,

the director after this, directed insidious chapter two. So we've thought about starting the insidious franchise. That's cool. So that's interesting as well. I like that. It comes from a DP background.

That's probably why, it looked so good. He's been the D.B. For a lot of stuff. He really used music and obviously in his favor because we didn't get as many jump scares, but the music made us feel very tense most of the time. And a long hallway. Exactly.

And like us staying on Annabelle and us both going, she's going to move eventually. And she never does except for that one time with the demon she floats up. And that's wild because I thought in my head still that she's just doing it on her own, and then when the demons were revealed behind her, yeah, I mean, that looked awesome. The demon looked really great. Great job on those, like, practical effects and makeup looked great. In 2014, yeah, it looked awesome.

Okay, let me give you some stuff. Yeah, let me give you the sauce. I think we. Stop trying to make sauce happen, Roxy. The movie portrays the Annabel doll as a porcelain doll, but the real Annabelle doll is a large raggedy and doll. The Warren's had a special case built for Annabelle inside their occulent. where she resides on this day, to this day.

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So join me on this health journey. The elevator scene was directed by James Wan. Oh, okay. That's cool. He just stepped in for that. She looked panicking and opening it, revealing it's the same every time. Okay. I love that.

Alvry Woodard hadn't seen The Conjuring before she began working on this film. Instead, she prepared by researching the story that inspired the film. Okay. Yeah, that's smart. Ellen DeGeneres lived in the apartment used in the movie. Oh my God. While promoting Annabelle in her show, Shailabov, Gina Rodriguez, Padma La Lachima, guest DJ Megan Trainer, 2014. She explained that the apartment in the movie was my first apartment that I moved into in L.A.

That was the building I lived in where they shot the movie. I was watching it going, that looks familiar. and it was my building. It was scary back then, too. Wow. That's great. I love that little trivia. The character names Mia and John

refer to the lead actors in Rosemary's baby, Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes. Oh, okay. The movie is also about a young, well-to-do couple in a luxury apartment, having a baby in combination with Satanists

going for mother and child. That makes sense. Okay. I haven't seen that movie, but now I kind of have the plot. The frequent noise. of the neighbors in an adjacent apartment is a nod to the same movie.

Okay. Yeah. A 1963 episode of the Twilight Zone titled Living Doll involves a talking doll given to a young girl by her mother. The doll's innocent vocabulary soon turns into a sinister tone, especially toward the girl's cruel stepfather. The girl's mother is named Annabel.

Oh, okay. A lot, like, they're taking a lot. There's a lot. I'm surprised that nobody's like, this is very Chuckie-esque, too, because they throw chucky, Chuck E in the trash, he comes right out. But what is, yeah, this is obviously after that. Yeah.

Coincidentally, Annabelle is the first name of the, is the first name of the actress who plays Mia. Oh. That's funny. Okay. Okay, let me ask you a question. Mia shouts Leah, how many times total throughout the film, breaking the record of saying a character's name repeatedly in a movie? Paul. Paul.

Now it's going to be Leah. Leah. Leah? Leah. Um 69 times 89. I was close.

The director of this film is also the cinematographer for Child's Play 3. Ah, see? Dope. So he got some, he got Chucky Juice with him. That's why it's following him around. I kept saying it. Now we got the trivia to support it.

So it's interesting, the order in which we watch this because this timeline-wise, Conjuring came out, then this came out, then Conjuring 2 came out. But chronologically, this is the prequel to the conjuring. Right. It would be that way when we see the conjuring, we would go, oh, that's Annabelle. But we kind of already, we were like, that doll looks creepy as I'll get up. Yep.

I like that. That's cool. Because there's so many items and things you can play with within this world that we have seen, that can be a spinoff. highest grossing horror film in the Philippines surpassing insidious chapter two that's interesting this was wow okay good job damn that's cool um all right my lady anything else that you want to add no no it was it's a it's a good film i'm excited to watch the next one because it it really did feel like a chapter one i'm so i'm excited to see if there is a number two what kind of like juice we get into right off the bat if it takes off a little bit quicker because now we we have like a

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