10 Horror Movies That Just Aren’t Scary

10. Annabelle

With James Wan’s The Conjuring in 2013, New Line’s shared Conjuring Universe of films got off to a fantastic start, as Wan delivered one of the greatest horror movies of the past decade. Since then, this shared realm has been a hugely mixed bag when it comes to quality and to scares, and bottom of the class in all of this is 2014’s Annabelle.

Simply put, Annabelle just wasn’t scary.

After the creepy doll being nicely, intriguingly introduced in that first Conjuring film, anticipation was high amongst horror fans at just what devilish delights awaited in Annabelle’s own picture. Sadly, the end result was a dud of a movie that struggled to muster up any reaction other than boredom.

Foolishly, Annabelle relied far too much on the overplayed trope of just using musical notes to let its audience know when it should be scared. Only, regardless of this musical score, the on-screen action seen just wasn’t scary. Rather than using the score to accentuate the horrors seen in a movie, Annabelle went the other way and used its music to try and convince you what you were seeing really, really was grim and ghastly.

Thankfully, follow-up Annabelle: Creation was a vastly improved, far scarier affair. The less said about this year’s Annabelle Comes Home, though, the better.