I liked the cinematography that employs camera angles that give you the point of view of the tormented victim so that you too do not know what will happen next. You can see he has the eye for the perfect views for the most effective suspense and surprise. Leonetti, the cinematographer of "Insidious 1 & 2" and "The Conjuring" makes an auspicious directorial debut with "Annabelle." He learned very well from his his previous director James Wan, who sits as producer of this film. Her character though had a story arc which probably the only negative thing I could say about this film.John R. Veteran actress Alfre Woodard is the only familiar face in the cast, and she plays their helpful neighbor Evelyn. Wallis has an elegant beauty and her acting was sympathetic without becoming cheesy.Ward Horton plays Mia's husband John, who is a medical student, which makes a convenient excuse for him to be a skeptic and always on call during the night, leaving Mia in the house watching television or working on her sewing machine. The character's name Mia, I am guessing, is a tribute to Mia Farrow, who was the star of a horror classic of the 1960s, "Rosemary's Baby." The stroller Mia uses for Leah sure looked like Rosemary's stroller which is seen in posters of that old film. A big part of the success of "Annabelle" as a horror film is the effective lead performance of coincidentally-named Annabelle Wallis as Mia. These things also contributed to the scariness factor because of the limitation of technology that the characters have on hand.
Even the look of cutie baby Leah was vintage, like the Gerber baby. The architecture, interior design, fashion, hairstyles, television shows, pop music all captured the era so well. However, since that night, there was no more peace in John and Mia's household, especially after she gives birth to their daughter, Leah.I liked the throwback look of this film, with its faded color palette and meticulous production design. Just so happened that same night, crazy satanic cultists attack their home and there was resulting bloodshed. The fact this film has such a low score really says to me either there is something really dodgy going on with IMDb film ratings or people really do have no taste in real horror movies only the cheesy and ridiculous loud noise/cheap scare ones that are in abundance these days. I do not usually watch lots of American horror films because I find them all very similar, similar stories, similar scare tactics so I tend to watch more Korean, Japanese and French horrors but I was pleasantly and massively surprised with how well this movie was done.I would highly recommend this movie to anyone and I put it way above the horror movie comparisons on here such as Insidious and Conjuring, its not even close, this is way better. It is easily one of the better horror movies I have seen in the last 5 years. Sure the film isn't perfect, but as a horror it is beautifully paced and the tension is built up brilliantly. Even the scenes where nothing happened but you were expecting them to were done perfectly. The sewing machine scenes, the oven scene and the lift scene alone created more tension and horror than any loud noise can create, it was executed perfectly. John Leonetti did a better job with this film than James Wan could ever have dreamed of doing.The tension created without the need for outrageously loud bangs sets this film apart from all the tiresome and clichéd films that have come out recently. Yet scores so highly on here because loud noises scare people.I thought the Conjuring was much better than Insidious but still both do not come close to Annabelle.
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