Welcome to Day 1 of Spooky Season!! It’s no surprise this is the time of the year I look forward to the most. Today, I’m starting out with the latest installment of rating horror movie characters who share the same first name. The name Anne is one of the most common in the horror genre, so I’m rating a few Anne’s today, in any variant: Anne, Annie, Anna, etc.. Reminder: I’m rating the characters themselves, NOT the actors who play them! It’s all for fun and focused on the fiction. I hope you enjoy and let me know what you’d rate these characters! (SPOILER ALERT!!)

Annie Lansing – Creepshow 2

My Rating: 4/10

Annie Lansing (Lois Chiles) was a woman thriving with her husband’s money and her lover’s ability to rock her world. As she was running home late after her latest intimate evening, she dropped her cigarette in her seat, causing her to swerve and hit a poor innocent hitchhiker with her car. Now, her affair, her manslaughter, and her obsession with money definitely dropped her quite a bit in my rating. The reason it’s not lower is because she’s pretty entertaining. I love the way she’s able to carry whole conversations with herself. Plus, the way she tried to bribe the ghost of the man she killed into not killing her was just too great. Seriously, what was she thinking?

Annie Wilkes – Misery

My Rating: 2/10

Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) was an avid book reader who became obsessed with the Misery novels and the man who wrote them, Paul Sheldon (James Caan). When Paul got into a nasty car wreck near her place, she rescued him and held him hostage, forcing him to bring the character he just killed off back to life. Annie was a deranged and sadistic soul. She abused Paul, drugged him, threatened him, and even re-broke his feet when he was starting to get better. She’s also a master of manipulation, hiding her terrifying motives behind her sweet smile. She’s a terrifying person who gets a very low rating from me!

Anne Stewart – The Others

My Rating: 7/10

Anne Stewart (Alakina Mann) was a young girl who was forced to stay in her home due to a deadly light sensitivity that her mother claimed she and her brother had. Soon after new workers arrived to help out, Anne and her family started to experience paranormal phenomena in their house. I gotta say growing up, I always thought Anne was nothing but a real brat. Thinking about it now, I feel I was a bit harsh, she was just a poor kid who couldn’t leave the house and took her frustrations out on everyone else. I like that she was an independent thinker who had no problem questioning things, she stood her ground on what she believed and didn’t believe, and she wasn’t in denial about what was going on in the house, despite her mother’s pushback.

Annie Graham – Hereditary

My Rating: 4/10

Grief and loss followed Annie (Toni Collette) her whole life. She lost her father and brother at a young age, and not long after losing her mother, her young daughter, Charlie (Milly Shapiro) died in such a horrific way. This was the death that finally destroyed her. I definitely understand that dealing with loss is not easy, but the way that she treated her family frustrated me. She was so focused on losing one child, it made her resent and neglect her other one, Peter (Alex Wolff). She blamed him for the family falling apart when Peter and Anne’s husband were the ones actually trying to heal and move on.

Anne Liebbrandt – The Menu

My Rating: 8/10

Anne Liebbrandt (Judith Light) accompanied her husband, Richard to the ultra exclusive Hawthorn restaurant for a simple romantic evening. Their quiet dinner quickly spiraled down as they learned that the restaurant staff planned it to be everyone’s last evening. Honestly, it seems to me that Anne’s biggest crimes were being wealthy, not remembering everything she ate at Hawthorn, and being married to a despicable man without realizing it. I really respect that when Anne found out her husband paid to sleep with an escort who looked like their deceased daughter, she didn’t take it out on the escort. She recognized how sick and twisted he was and when the escort had a chance to leave before they all died, she nodded to her, assuring her it’s ok to go. I really liked her!