The Reel Rejects - ANNABELLE COMES HOME (2019) MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!

Episode Date: January 9, 2025

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Here we go In three, two Dang, okay Annabelle comes home Oh, story by James Juan Did it already say director? Probably Oh, Peter Safran

He must have directed it, right? Well, he wrote I kind of don't think he did Let me look it up right now Thank you guys for joining us for Annabel comes home. Don't forget if you're on Apple, Spotify, five star, if you're on YouTube, comment, you can pick up your cool sweaters and all that stuff, RejectNationShop.com, follow us on social media.

Tara, we've been on this controversy for a minute now. How did this one compare? This one was, I really, I really enjoyed it. I thought it was great. I thought that the three leads, the three girls were really strong actors. Really strong, dude. And that obviously is always going to help. And there was a bunch of jump scares that I did not expect.

I wasn't foreseeing that all of the demons would be unleashed. So it's not like we didn't just get Annabelle in this, right? Right. We got that the crazy bride and then we got the hellhound and we got more of like the lure of like, we got to do the holy water, do the crucifix thing, like the notes from the last one that it said different things. but I liked how they did, like, tiny callbacks to the past movies still in this, which I thought was a lot of fun. I think my, what do I think, like my favorite, my favorite, I think part in this movie that was

very surprising and I think done really well is when she finally sees her dad and then she turns and her dad is like messed up from the car accident and is just yelling at her. that took me by surprise I did not see it coming that's like one of the scariest moments to me that was truly it was done so well yeah I think that where this movie

really succeeded is in having those three girls all be people we understood and cared about and got where they were coming from and what their objectives were like you know with the babysitter she wants to make sure that everybody is safe and good and I like how protective she was over this family but the daughter she was like

I don't want my parents to even know that I'm getting bullied at school because of this article because she believed them because she has their blood in her and her mom so she's experiencing it and with the friend who at first I was like oh my God this girl's so annoying

but then we come to find out of course she just wants to talk to her father and she wants to be told it wasn't her fault which obviously the pain of having a dead parent when you're a teen I can understand the pain of thinking that you're any part and why they're dead is not something

I can relate to and just being able to hear that by the end, how emotionally connected we were. And when Vera Formiga says to her, he wants you to know this, darling Daniela, that it was not your fault. Right. You know, it was very reminiscent of that goodwill hunting scene. It's not your fault. It's not your fault.

Yeah. So I thought it was really, really beautifully done. Just a couple of things. Gary Doberman is the person who directed this. So it was not James Wan. Okay. He did the screenplay for... James Wand did?

No, Gary Doberman. Oh, Gary Doberman. It's one of your favorites. It is? Is it a horror? Yes, it is. You want me to say it? Yeah, just say it.

Oh, 2017? He did the screenplay for it. Oh, my God. I love that movie. So I must have told you that when we did the non because he did the screenplay for the nun. And I remember telling you like, oh, that's who did. So the guy who directed this doubt did the screenplay for the nun.

This is his direct. directorial debut actually. So he directed this and then he directed in 2024 Salem's Lot, which was on Max or is on Max. I didn't see it. I haven't seen it either. But that's interesting that this is his

directorial debut because there were some weird choices there. He did a great job for his first time and I'm way more willing to give him some leniency with some of the things that were like, bro, why are we so slow here? Like the pacing and some of the parts was a little too slow. But yeah, I agree with you. Totally. But he is a writer who

This was his first time daddling in the directing world, but he's a prolific writer writing not only Annabelle creation. It wolves at the door, the original Annabelle. So I must have told you for then, too. You and I with our movie memories. Yeah. The nun to Salem's Lot, It Chapter 2, Swamp Thing. He's written a lot.

Wow. So cool that he decided to direct this. Yeah, okay. That's awesome. That's really great. These, McKenna Grace, I'm such an idiot. That's her name? I knew that.

I'm so mad at myself. You thought it was totally... McKenna Grace is the girl in Ghostbusters. I knew that it was one of the two. I messed you up because I was like, it's the other one. We should know not to trust me when it comes to actors, names. And I really felt going into it, I was like, I think this is the girl from Ghostbusters, but I should have said it.

I also know her from Gifted. I know her from Hammaid's Taylor. I know him from I, Tanya. But I knew. She's like, plays like the nerdy, nerdy one in Ghostbust. The Remake. I haven't seen it. McKenna Grace.

Wow. Sorry. I get her and Kieran Shipk, I have a hard time to hear her name. Kieran Shipka. Kiernan Shipka. Confused all the time. They look so similar to me. This is Kiernan Shipka.

Oh, yeah. They look so much alike to me. From Mad Men. Yes. And I think they look identical to me all the time. And I've messed the two of them up back and forth a million times. My apologies. McKenna Grace is so good.

She did, they're both excellent actresses. Yeah. She's so great in this. There was also the girl that we really like that played Danielle, Katie Serif, who was in Supernatural and she was in This Is Us. Oh, great show. Yeah, she did such a great job. And the girl who played Mary was played by Madison Iceman, who was in, oh, she played young Bethany and Jumongi. Welcome to the Jungle.

Oh, cool. Very cool. So it makes sense. All of them are going to. to have prolific careers, I'm pretty sure I already do. Working, working. The young boy is, oh, the star of Love Victor, which I didn't see that. The TV show has been off of Love Simon.

Yeah. And he's in Never Have I Ever, which is a show that I really like. But he was in four episodes of that. He did five episodes of How I Met Your Father, which I also watched. So all these working actors. Yeah. Usually when it's kids and it's not like college or whatever, I kind of seem to get bored of the storylines here, for some reason.

I did not once. I felt so invested. I agree with that. In their romance, in their friendship, in their, like, mentorship, baby-sitting. There's every one of the dynamics. I liked his with the girl that he liked. I liked the babysit. I liked the best friends. I liked every dynamic in this.

Yeah, I thought it was done, like, really well and naturally, especially, like, because they go to the grocery store. We already can tell when the best friends are speaking about, like, please don't tell him. Don't do that. We know that, like, she obviously is. crush on the guy so like when he shows up and he is like saving them but also like runs in you're like yeah that would make sense if he he has like such a crush on it was really sweet when he's like we go to home coming with me i thought just that whole it's so like where he's like nope uh that was

it was really really cute and i think done in a way that's like just reminds me of high school yeah like it's so awesome yeah really really cool um i like the say any Anything moment was very cute, too, where he's like, he's wooing her. I thought that was really, I thought it was really cute. After being told by the stoner pizza boy, like, you got to woo her. And then like, an hour later, he's like, all right, then you got to work real quick. Yeah. But that's kind of what it is, like, when you're obsessive over somebody and you're young and

you're just like, I got to tell them, I got to show them. That is how it is. Really cute. I also like that. I know that in the conjuring movies, of course, we get our two leads all of the time. And I like that they came over to the Annabelle movie and they were at least in it for a little bit. Yeah.

Because I love them. Yeah. I don't know their character names. I don't know them either. We should. But that was cool to have them in this movie for a little bit. But also not so in the movie that I was hoping that they would be there all the time. Like it gave it space to breathe and have us like these other characters.

I agree because it's mainly about these other characters. But we kind of need them there for a little bit of set up, a little bit at the end, which I liked. And to make us trust the. movie like you know this is part of the world because if we didn't have them we would go what's this one off they're trying to pull off that's not attached to the universe so they do a really good job of bringing them into even if we think Annabelle's different nun's different all that stuff is different it's like they do a good job of bringing in that whole universe together the most different by far so far feels like curse of Laurona I agree that one felt super standalone but it does still feel

this world enough still does yeah yeah man that this uh entire verse which has so many movies that you know it's not like some of the other franchises that we watched that started in the 70s or the 80 you know right right this is a relatively new franchise yeah um and there's so many movies and they're all very well done and successful um i don't mean successful financially i'm guessing they are because they keep making them but i i just mean successful like the structure of them, the way that they pull at our heartstrings, the jump scare, the, just I think they do a really excellent job. So I'm into this verse. That's definitely up there in terms of the franchises we've done so far. Nothing I don't think will top Chuckie for us, but this is very high.

This is super high. And I also think that it's fun how even starting the first one, like the conjuring, that they already, remember in the conjuring when we saw Annabelle and we're like, that doll. She's a creeper. And then they found a way to eventually, like, it's not like they were like, boom, this is an idea. It's like, no, from the start, it's almost as if they were already setting it up to take us in a bunch of different arenas, which means they had to do, you kind of have to do a lot of prep in order for those other pathways for these other films to be a success. So that I really respect them for that. One thing about Tara and Rocks, we are doll horror people. We love the doll stuff.

Obviously. We love the doll stuff. If there's a doll, it's for us. Yep. I also really love Killer Dolls clothing. I think it's called Killer Dolls. I love that. They have great stuff. They have awesome stuff. We'll wear it on this. Like, oh my God, please sponsor us, Killer Dolls. Did you like Megan? Megan. Oh, oh, yeah, didn't I watch it on this channel? I don't know. Did you? The E is a three. Yes, I loved that movie. Yes, I loved that movie. Okay, so we'd be loving doll. We're a love. We love dolls stuff. Yeah, we love dolls. We love dolls. On that, no. Send us some dolls. I will not, I will not take it home, but you can if you want. Terry, we have other things we have to tell the people?

No. Yeah, we're just going to get out of here. We will see you guys for the next one. Probably that's the conjuring, the double made me do it in the order that we're watching it. Make sure that you check us out. Anything else you're watching right now that you've been loving any other franchises you're on? Oh, loving the Fast and Furious. That is a lot of fun.

And what else? I think that's the only other franchise I'm doing now but might be doing some Harry Potter stuff. Oh, that would be so cool. Recommend things to us too because we are in 2019 or 20, I think this movie came out in 2019 so we got to be coming towards the end of the converse so whatever you think we should be tackling next

let us know and we'll see you guys next time. Later, Rejects.