Annabelle: Creation



Director - David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Shazam!)
Starring - Anthony LaPaglia (Bad Blood, Tales from the Crypt), Lulu Wilson (The Haunting of Hill House, Ouija: Origin of Evil), and Talitha Eliana Bateman (The 5th Wave, Geostorm)
Release Date - 2017
Genre - Horror
Tagline - "You don't know the real story"
Format - Bluray (Personal Collection)

Rating (out of 5):

     I really enjoy The Conjuring universe for the most part but there has been a few duds here and there.  It's weird as much as I enjoy this series that I just have no interested in the Annabelle spin off series.  I just never found the doll or an origin story of the doll to be interesting.  With Annabelle Comes Home heading to shelves soon I thought I would finally visit these films to see how they hold up.  The first film has a few things I liked but as a whole it just didn't work.  I was not looking forward to tossing in Annabelle: Creation but the thought of a period piece horror flick kind of excited me some.  Sadly, it fell short as well.  

     The film follows a small group of orphans and a nun who lost their home and is being transferred to the home of a man and his bedridden wife who welcomes them in.  They lost their daughter sometime ago and have the extra room to accommodate them all.  A happy beginning quickly turns dark when one of the little girls, Janice, uncovers the Annabelle doll hidden in a room freeing the evil spirit attached to it.  Now the girls are in danger and they must stick together before the evil Annabelle can collect the soul she needs.  

     I went into this thinking it was going to be better than the first one and it was for the most part.  The movie did improve on what was established what the first movie established but what they did give us just felt half-assed.  The acting in this one is great just like the rest of the series.  The cast does a phenomenal job and bring their characters to life.  The characters are fun but painfully generic and cliched.  The story for this one takes what we got in the first Annabelle movie and adds upon it.  It does take leaps with the story with some working and others coming across as stupid.  What happens with this story is we get the origin story we should have got with the first film but now it just makes the first film seem stupid as fuck.  Finally, this one does have a little blood with some inconsistent visual effects.  We get several scenes with solid visuals while others look rushed and piss poor.  Overall, Annabelle: Creation is another miss opportunity and a low point in The Conjuring universe.