10 More Horror Movies Everyone Wished Were Way Crazier

Take a tried and tested horror formula (the haunted doll) and throw in some exposure from an existing successful franchise and what do you get?

Well, if you're Annabelle, then you get a criminally underwhelming cinema experience.

After first cropping up in The Conjuring, this petrifying plaything got her own movie in 2014, with part of her backstory taking centre-stage. Annabelle comes to life here after a cult member kills herself whilst holding a porcelain doll, transferring her soul into the toy. Then, the story plays out as you'd expect; the owners get haunted, the doll gets its revenge, all home in time for tea.

What could have been a genuinely creepy affair - a more sinister modern update of Child's Play - played out like every other horror movie you've ever seen.

Annabelle relied way too heavily on its main character, thinking she would be enough to carry the rest of the film. Sadly, this was not the case, and everyone was forced to sit through a movie as stiff as the doll herself before it got possessed.

But then again, Annabelle got a prequel and a sequel, so maybe everyone is just stupid.