A pregnant woman named Mia experiences illusions that she is being haunted by her childhood doll, Annabelle, which her husband John found again. A spirit associated with a cult is after Mia's child, wanting its young soul. Mia decides to sacrifice herself to protect her baby, but John saves her. Evelyn then sacrifices herself instead to get rid of her guilt from her daughter's death.

1. ANNABELLE
By JCJC Productions

2. ABOUT
The film is a prequel to the Conjuring going through the life of Mia and John who live
in Santa Monica and are expecting a child. Throughout the film Mia also known as the
final Girl experiences illusions that she is being haunted by a childhood doll called
Annabelle which her Husband John found for her again. It later turns out to be that a
spirit associated with a cult is after Mia’s child wanting its young soul. However the
demons cannot just take the soul of
another, it must be offered and a soul
must be offered to the cult in order for
the cult to stop antagonising her. As the
doll cannot be disposed of Mia decides
to sacrifice her self in order to protect her
baby. John saves Mia from this act and
Evelyn sacrifices her self in stead as she
wants to get rid f the guilt from her
daughters death.

3. MOTIFS
The aspects of this film being a horror
film is that people die to demons and
also there are bloody murders and etc.
This film’s primary genre is supposed to
be a horror and they included all the
aspects of psychological thriller by using
demons and a doll which involves
paranormal activities. These
characteristics are commonly used in
other films of this genre as the Mia is the
only one who experiences these events
and makes her sound crazy when she
tells other people (used in other films).

4. AIM
A pigtailed doll possessed by a demon
threatens a young couple with a new born
baby. Annabelle is based on a true event as
the Annabelle doll already exist in real life
and is a spin off on the film ‘the conjuring’.
Their aim is to re-create the supposed events
that happened in real life but over
exaggerate it for entertainment value. Also
they put a plot with in the film to enhance
the physiological

5. FINAL GIRL
The final girl in this film is identified as being innocent and
weak. However she manages not to be killed throughout the
film. Whilst all these crazy events are happening to her, her
husband is never their to witness these events or anyone
else. People see her as crazy as she is the only person to
witness these paranormal activities that are occurring. The
fact that she is also pregnant makes her even more
venerable but typically in these types of films she surprisingly
lives. Annabelle Wallis plays Mia (final girl) is
Presented as being very venerable and
also very attractive to also express her
vulnerability as she is being objectified as
being a typical house wife, with the
husband going out to work.

6. PSYCHOLOGICAL
The film has aspects of a psychological film
as well as a horror. This is because the films
messes with your mind and especially Mia’s.
She is antagonised through out the whole
film through the use of the doll. Her mind is
severely messed, as the demons constantly
bully her when she is all alone as she is
supposed to offer up a soul. Also there are
scenes where the demons appear and
disappear which messes with Mia’s mind as
well as the audiences.

7. HORROR
Annabelle is typical horror film as it incudes
the aspects of paranormal activity, murder,
and torture. Mia is mentally tortured through
out the film. Her neighbours at the start of the
film die a bloody death which is the first event
of this horror film. Also Mia and her husband
were subject to many attacks of the demon
but the husband was only involved in the first
incident. The priest was also attacked to
increase the horror aspect of the film giving
the audience a fright factor.

8. POV
In This is because the film is designed to
scare Annabelle the point of view shot is not
used very often compared to other films of
its genre. The point of view shot is used in the
perspective of Mia and not the antagonist
which is unusually because normally horror
films implement a point of view shot, in the
perspective of the antagonist. However
using the POV in the perspective of Mia
makes the film scarier as you do not know
whether a demon is doing to try and attack
which makes it that much scarier when they
do.