ANNABELLE

Happy October to the Willflix audience!  Nights are getting longer, leaves are beginning to turn to the dark side, and the weather is taking its sweet time changing over from warm to luke warm and eventually cool.  Of course it’s also that time of year where ghosts, goblins, and all their pals get dusted off for some good old fashion scares.  That fills the horror film fan in me with joy.

The release of Annabelle kick starts the month of ghouls with its release.  So of course we gathered for a movie night.  Though it wasn’t the midnight release, which I miss deeply, however it was a night before release.  (Not the same but sometimes you have to take the good with the ultra bad).  As always at these events, I cook.  The evening’s menu was homemade pizzas, which is a dish I am always proud to serve.  

To get in the mood for the night’s festivities Spider Baby was rewatched.  If you haven’t seen this gem from the late 60’s please do yourself the favor,  it’s a lot of fun and worth at least one viewing.

From there we headed to the theater, snacks in hand, the film shortly began.  After twenty odd minutes of trailers the feature presentation began.  An hour and thirty five minutes later I let go of my arm rest as the credits began to role.

Like The Conjuring this movie goes for the classic jump out behind you scares with very minimal blood use.  That made for many great scares including one frighting sequence in the basement.  I stop myself there because I don’t want to spoil anything for the uninitiated.  Many times throughout the flick I jumped with fright, as did the crowd viewing the film as well.  The audience really got into watching Annabelle and that made for a really great show.

Needless to say I enjoyed all aspects of the evening, the company and film alike.

I look forward to slowly enjoying this frightful month.