The Cherry Hill Chainsaw Massacre

In 1968, a pair of young nurses named Debbie (Morganna May) and Camilla (Amy Tipton) summoned the services of renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) to cleanse their apartment of the supernatural phenomena that seemed to emanate from a vintage porcelain doll named Annabelle. Gifted to Debbie by her mother for her birthday, this doll began to demonstrate signs of possession in initially minor ways: a hand or leg switching to a different position, its head looking up instead of down. But then it began materializing in different rooms, moving around seemingly by itself. Once Camilla contacted a medium, they discovered that a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle Higgins had died in their apartment and desired to inhabit the doll as a means of making friends. Out of sheer sympathy owing to their compassionate professions, Debbie and Camilla granted permission to Annabelle's spirit to move into the doll. What started as unsettling but harmless gest...

In 2004, modern genre maestro James Wan cut his teeth in the horror genre with Saw , written by his frequent accomplice and fellow horror fanatic, Leigh Whannell, kicking off the unfortunate craze of what is now referred to as the "torture porn" subgenre, which by definition emphasizes physical human suffering and bucketloads of bloodshed over an authentic feeling of suspense. Despite racking up one of the most successful horror franchises, numerically speaking, with currently ten installments, this seasoned genre junkie has only seen the inaugural installment, and I'd say that's quite enough for my taste. Six years later, the poetically surnamed Wan and Whannell would redeem themselves by shifting to a lower gear courtesy of their haunted house thrill ride, Insidious , which fell on the complete opposite side of the horror spectrum for the better. Instead of two grown men finding themselves chained in a dirty bathroom and forced to amputate their own limbs at the beh...