The third instalment in New Line Cinema’s “Annabelle” series provides a fictional portrayal of famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.
In Annabelle Comes Home, the couple, played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, bring the possessed doll Annabelle to the locked artefacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens’ ten-year-old daughter, Judy.
“Annabelle’s presence causes all these other things to come to life,” says the film’s writer and director, Gary Dauberman, screenwriter of “IT”, “The Nun”, and the “Annabelle” films. “Annabelle is the orchestrator of the madness.”
Though the story is fictional, Judy Warren — now Judy Spera — is an actual person, whom Dauberman consulted with while writing the movie.
Annabelle Comes Home will be released in New Zealand on June 27th.
