10 Worst Reveals In Movie Prequels
7. Annabelle Was Created By A Pissed Off Burglar - Annabelle
Or was she?
With The Conjuring, James Wan gave audiences one of the very best horror movies of the past decade. When prequel offering Annabelle arrived just a year later, there was a huge intrigue about what devilish delights would be served up - only for the film to be a pretty dull, flat mess of a movie.
After the Annabelle doll had been glimpsed in The Conjuring and heavily used in the marketing push for that 2013 film, it was a major disappointment to see the Annabelle movie reveal that the porcelain doll became possessed because of a pissed off burglar.
In Annabelle, the Forms' neighbours are brutally attacked in their own home by who would turn out to be the neighbours' daughter Annabelle and her partner. Having been caught by the police, Annabelle slits her throat as she's holding the doll.
It's later explained that Annabelle (the person) was part of a satanic cult and had intended to conjure up an evil spirit in this doll. Which all felt like a massive letdown when it came to the origins of the creepy as f**k doll seen in The Conjuring.
Going further, Annabelle actually got its own prequel picture in the form of 2017's Annabelle: Creation. Complete with a *le sigh* reveal of its own, the climax of Creation revealed that the Annabelle character was really a possessed kid called Janice who had escaped from an orphanage and renamed herself - to then later imbue that demonic spirit into the doll at the start of 2014's Annabelle.
Confusing? A tad. Disappointing? Majorly.