Spoilers ahead for the plot of The Conjuring: Last Rites .

In the pantheon of horror-movie baddies, it’s hard to think of any figure more overhyped than Annabelle, the haunted doll who has found her way into all nine Conjuring universe installments (not to mention an Aquaman movie ). When I say “Annabelle is a flop,” I’m being literal: Her special trick is falling over — sometimes straight ahead, sometimes to the side. On her best days, she can turn her head and make rocking chairs rock, neither of which is anything to brag about. Aside from looking creepy, sort of a given with all porcelain dolls of a certain age, Annabelle doesn’t do much of anything, and yet that hasn’t stopped her from headlining her own spinoff series and getting mentioned in the same breath as far more dyn

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