A good horror that will definitely lead to a sleepless night or two!

Rating: 7/10 (27 August 2013)

**May contain spoilers** The story is mostly your classic horror story line - house haunted by a hell bent spirit who has latched on the main characters (the Perrons) and the Demonologists(the Warrens)come to help them out - with a few extras thrown in.Which is good because this leaves enough room for the viewer to focus on the things they came for - the scares! Though there were some things I felt were unnecessary and irrelevant to the story line, my prime example being the scene in which Judy Warren is haunted by the doll Annabelle, and, in fact the presence of Annabelle herself. I also felt that despite I thought her part in the film a little pointless, the director should have made Annabelle's portrayal more realistic. Annabelle the doll does exist and is in fact a large, quite cute rag doll and I feel this would have been scarier than the classic creepy porcelain type doll they went with instead. Still on the subject of the story line, I also felt that there were parts that could have been made more of, for example, more of the back story of the previous owners of the land and more of the "Look what she made me do." - especially the maid Brad sees in the house. I thought the jump scares were brilliant, my only criticism being that for me there sheer amount of jumps scares - one after another after another - made me feel almost bogged down, but others may prefer the constant 'on edge' feeling you get whilst watching a good horror. I really did enjoy the scene in which the witch first possesses Carolyn, the method of her possession was very different from the classic inhaling black smoky kind. It was close, and loud, and that whole regurgitating blood thing really was terrifying. The exorcism scene at the end was equally terrifying. The witch's face appearing in the rip in the sheet, the blood and the animal-istic look in possessed Carolyn's eyes when she goes off to get April. Over all a film filled with lots of good ol' scares - definitely a keeper.