This presentation looks at the thriller Annabelle reviewing its motifs and shots to decide whether its a horror or psychological thriller.

1. Annabelle
Motifs and Shots

2. What is Annabelle about?
John found the perfect gift for his pregnant wife Mia, a vintage
doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with
Annabelle is short lived. On one horrific night, their home is
invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the
couple. Spilled blood and death were just the beginning of their
actions. The cultists conjured an entity so evil and powerful it
possesses the doll and Annabelle is brought to life and will stop
at nothing until it claims an innocent life.
This film is a thriller but there is some confusion as to what kind of
thriller it is although it has obvious and clear horror links it also
contains clear aspects of psychological thrillers .

3. Annabelle: Horror thriller?
Horror thrillers: This is when the main characters have a conflict
that is mental, emotional and physical. The main character is a
superior force but they are or will soon become victims
themselves.
Annabelle can be classed as a horror thriller because it shares
various trademark characteristics with normal horror thrillers.
Although it is not overly gory but its does contain key elements
of horror thrillers such as the character being up against a
superior force, there is a constant atmosphere of fear
throughout the movie, also there is a clear “final girl” from the
beginning of the film.

4. Annabelle: Psychological thriller?
Annabelle can also be seen as a psychological thriller because
like horror, it boasts of various aspects of psychological thrillers
such as suspense filled scenes, mental and emotional conflict
between the main characters.
In Annabelle we see Mia get mentally tortured to the edge of
mental instability, with various jump scares

5. Final Girl
 The final girl in a film is the protagonist that survives the initial attacks of the
antagonist then finally confront them.
 The final girl in Annabelle, Mia (Annabelle Wallis) had endured all form of
mental torture and life threatening situation including considering suicide
but still surviving all these to live till the end.
 Her character was shown to be emotionally and physically frail after nearly
killing herself as well as seeing various attempts on her young daughters life,
she is also shown as defenceless due to the fact that her husband is never
around to witness the events as well as the fact that, that no one but Evelyn
(Alfre Woodard) and Father Perez (Tony amendola) try to help but to no
avail.
 This aspect of the film pushes it towards the horror thriller side but the fact
that very little violence occurred throughout the film and most of the conflict
was mentally based almost diving Mia to suicide still leaves an argument for
Annabelle being a psychological thriller.