Review of Annabelle: Creation (2017) by Agj14 — 21 Apr 2019

I enjoyed the movie Annabelle Creation because I am personally a fan of a story that extends from one film to the next and that is what this movie does for its audience, while also adding a backstory to one of the previous films. Make enough movies revolving around this one little doll and you will end up in and endless loop of hearing about how no one should see the doll, the doll is bad, don’t look at the doll and also having those who watched the other movies left trying to figure out what happened in a specific movie but messing up because they are adding things that happened from the same movies about that doll into the movie they are trying to remember. The movie “Annabelle Creation” seemed a tad bit different from the rest of the Conjuring and Annabelle movies as it somewhat shy's away from the movies before it style. Annabelle Creation seemed to focus more on a story/plot while trying to throw in a few pop-up scares that the creators and directors are known for doing and perfecting so well in their previous movies. But now Annabelle Creation does not seem to be trying so hard with the pop-up scares like they use to and the horror movie lost what makes a horror movie be called a horror movie. As they lean more toward the plot it’s a sweet story with a man and a wife letting a group of all female orphans come stay at their “castle” like home. Janice: “This is our new orphanage?” Nancy: “It’s as big as a castle.” Samuel Mullins: “Feel free to use the house as you see fit.” With this movie, it is easy to notice how repetitive these horror/ghost movies have become and how easily someone can predict what will happen next to the story's protagonist. And when hearing what the characters say is a continuous noticing of Déjà vu moments that not make it suspenseful but more of a “I knew it was gonna happen” moment. Linda: “Janice says she’s seen your daughter.”.

Samuel Mullins: “My daughter has been dead for a long time.”.

Déjà vu! “I see dead people..” “you couldn’t have possibly seen them because they have been dead for 74 years.” If you overuse something then people are going to end up knowing what you’re going to spew out next.

Esther Mullins: “It’s the doll. A devil” Aside from the repetitiveness of the whole Annabelle movie collection and the little use of very well performed pop-up scares, we are left with only the plot. Which, to my personal opinion, made it worth the $12.50. The plot was the missing piece we had all been waiting for without realizing we had been waiting for it, as it connects parts from previous Annabelle movies basically summing up what happened and how they got to that point.