‘Annabelle Comes Home’ VR Experience Lets You Explore The Warren Artifact Room
Annabelle Comes Homehits theaters later this month. But before the haunted doll unleashes even more terror in the household of Ed & Lorraine Warren, you can explore their infamous artifact room, full of items tied to all sorts of evil entities, demons, spirits and more. You can get a glimpse at the newAnnabelle Comes HomeVR experience below. Just make sure you don’t touch anything.
Annabelle Comes Home VR Experience
The video walks through the entire artifact room, allowing you to look at the dozens of items the Warrens have accumulated from their various paranormal investigations over the years. Any one of them could spin off into their own franchise, just likeAnnabelleorThe Nun.
As you move through the room, there are also ominous sounds all around you, including a certain music box that fans will recognize instantly. But of course the real problem is that Annabelle opens the case keeping her locked up and disappears when the lights go out. After that, things get even creepier as the lights start flickering and noises amp up.
There’s a lot of potential for horror experiences in VR, and this is a decent example of what can be done. But it’s also a little too simple. There needs to be more interaction with the environment. While that might cost more money that doesn’t necessarily need to be spent when VR is only being used for a movie’s marketing, it shows that there needs to be some more engagement in this medium in order for audiences to take notice.
As the first trailerforAnnabelle Comes Homerevealed, the Warren artifact room gets a visitor who stupidly touches a bunch of items, bringing even more evil into the rest of the house, and that’s on top of Annabelle herself. Here’s the official synopsis:
Is it just me or does it seem weird that the concept of unleashing the evil of the artifact room feel like it would have been better suited forThe Conjuring’s main franchise instead of anAnnabellesequel? Sure, the doll is a good catalyst for that concept, but she was already rather menacing on her own. Will this have any impact onThe Conjuring 3at all? We’ll have to wait and see.
Annabelle Comes Homeis directed by franchise writerGary Dauberman, and it hits theaters onJune 28, 2019.
