December 6th, 2017 | Updated on April 6th, 2024
Annabelle: Creation
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Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.
Movie Review : The set-up is promising, and it offers some decent early jump scares. But eventually the thinness of the material becomes overwhelmingly obvious. Directed by David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) and apparently edited by no one, the film is a bloated grab bag of chiller clichés that throws everything at the proverbial wall where nothing really sticks. There’s possessed children with cracking, snapping double joints. There’s an old dark house with creaky doors, bumps in the night, and closets one shouldn’t go into, especially after being warned against doing exactly that. There’s old record players that mysteriously start playing scratchy old-time tunes seemingly of their own accord. And there’s maniacal looking dolls.If you junk up the screen with enough narrative hooey, folks will keep coming back to find out what it’s all leading to and what it all means. ~ Ew.com
