Not since Chucky barked
out “Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?” has
there been anything quite like the lovely doll, Annabelle. She made her debut in The Conjuring and
returned as the “star” of her own film this year in
cinematographer-turned-director John R. Leonetti’s self-titled film, Annabelle.
Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment will bring home this smash horror hit on Jan. 20 as both DVD and
Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack (with UltraViolet) SKUs. The ARR comes in at 109 days and at the
local multiplexes were screams and shrieks of terror to the tune of $83.5
million in ticket sales — all of that
generated after Labor Day!
Mia (Annabelle Wallis —
as Jane Seymour in The Tudors television series) is a doll collector. You know, the sort of porcelain creations
that are not played with, but rather put on display. One of these is Annabelle, a gift from her
husband, John (Ward Horton), which is possessed … and every bit as malevolent
as dear old Chucky.
While Chucky did his own
dirty work (from inanimate toy to killer), the doll Annabelle transforms into
both spirit and human form for her deadly attacks. The shock of her transformation from doll on
the shelf to hideous creature — from an innocent little girl to drooling demon
— can be quite unsettling. If it is things
that go bump in the night you want, then Annabelle delivers that with gusto!
Bonus features include
the featurette titled “The Curse of Annabelle.” Exclusive to the Blu-ray SKU are deleted
scenes and three additional featurettes — “Bloody Tears of Possession,” “Dolls
of the Demon” and “A Demonic Process.”
Also added to Warner
Bros. Home Entertainment’s release schedule this week is the Dec. 23 Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack-only debut of director Philippe Falardeau's The Good Lie, starring
Reese Witherspoon as the unlikely mentor to three “Lost Boys” of Sudan
survivors who have been uprooted to of all places, Kansas.
Domestic ticket sales
came in at $2.4 million … bonus features include deleted scenes and the
production featurette titled, “The Good Lie Journey.”
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