10 Horror Movies That Gave Fans EXACTLY What They Wanted (And They Hated It)

While James Wan's The Conjuring stands as one of the finest horrors of the past decade, one minor complaint that some had was the extremely minimal presence of Annabelle.

Ahead of the release of this 2013 picture, the Annabelle doll was front 'n' centre in all of the film's marketing. So, when this creepy little b*stard was featured in barely five minutes of The Conjuring, some were left feeling short-changed. Remedying this, the following year brought Annabelle her/its own self-titled movie.

Unfortunately, this first solo venture for the doll was a total dud. Set loosely six months before the Annabelle-centred flashback shown in The Conjuring, this 2014 offering focuses on a married couple, the Forms, and their new-born baby. When their neighbours are murdered at the start of the feature, the attackers end up in the Forms' home as the police arrive. After the police fatally shoot one of these assailants, the other - the daughter of the neighbours and ominously called Annabelle - slits her own throat.

Moving house, the Forms soon witness all kinds of spooky shenanigans loosely tied to the porcelain doll they thought they'd thrown in the trash. It'd turn out that the real Annabelle and her partner-in-crime were part of a demonic cult, and an evil presence resided in said doll. Sadly, this entire story was just, well, dull.