Last night I went to watch the movie Annabelle. If you do not know what Annabelle is, its sort of like a prequel to the big horror movie last year "The Conjuring" because Annabelle is the doll that is seen in the beginning scene of the Conjuring and they just say that the doll is sealed away and blessed twice a month by a catholic priest because a demon inhabits the doll. Also that it is best to just seal the doll away rather than destroy it because destroying the doll will only just allow the evil within to live in another physical object or even a person.
Both movies are based on a true story from the Warren couple cases, but Hollywood changed the look of the real Annabelle to a creepy porcelain doll. The original doll was actually a raggedy Ann doll. I personally like the choice that Hollywood made because porcelain dolls are, in my opinion, just plain CREEPY, and the raggedy Ann doll just looks like an innocent doll. Obviously the real Ann doll was a scary experience to whoever owned the doll in real life because it moved throughout the apartment and scratched messages everywhere, but when the story gets retold people would probably be wary like "really, that innocent doll is the most dangerous thing ever?" It could also be understood that besides for a creepier look, the raggedy Ann company probably didn't want to loose sales if the movie was made to portray the real doll.
Besides the Hollywood changes of the dolls looks, the movie also amps up the the story to make for a better movie such as a monster at the bottom of a dark gloomy stairwell along with other spooks. I quite enjoyed the movie but I will still keep away from porcelain dolls and never purchase one from an antique store because those dolls at that type of store could be haunted since their owner is probably dead.
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