Annabelle: Creation

It's simply a treat to watch Sandberg's style on display in Annabelle: Creation, filled with circling dolly shots that reveal and conceal evil in torturously teasing ways, effective narrative use of practical lighting for dramatic effect, and heart-pounding sound effects and a score of screaming strings.

Like Lights out, David F. Sandberg's previous film, Annabelle: Creation is a haunted-house horror story that plays on our primeval fear of the dark.

A surprisingly effective horror film, which is to say it’s scary in all the smart ways.

Annabelle: Creation does offer several shocking moments, and manages to deliver some truly eerie imagery. Even when you can spot the gimmicks from a mile away, Annabelle: Creation hits the horror notes it’s aiming for.

There’s nothing cheap about the rest of Annabelle: Creation, so this scattered finale felt like a letdown.

Annabelle: Creation isn’t a terrible film. Not exactly. The set-up is promising, and it offers some decent early jump scares. But eventually the thinness of the material becomes overwhelmingly obvious.

It’s maddeningly unclear sometimes, the whole doll/possession/ghost story, as the filmmakers play extremely loose with the film’s internal logic. Couple that with the stale scent of well-worn dialogue. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

Annabelle: Creation brought to me fear and emotion while I watched this. It's a great movie and I can't wait to watch a next movie that Annabelle appears again.

A história não é ruim, mas achei o envolvimento com os personagens um pouco fraco e sem profundidade, tanto é que no início você tem um leve apego pela Janice, e no final nem se importa mais dela estar, ou não, possuída pela entidade maligna. Acabei não torcendo por ninguém, só para o filme acabar logo.

Not as good as the 1st. Still a good movie. Just the movie seemed to drag on more in some parts then it should've. That creepy porcelain doll still does the trick.

Bence vakit kaybı bir yapım. Bebek yok olmuyor mu yani? Madem bu kadar güçlü ve filmin sonuna göre böyle şeyler yapabiliyor neden 12 yıl beklemiş?

There are some horror films that are classics. They redefine the genre and they remain genuinely scary and essential with every viewing. Sandberg impressed me with Lights Out', a film I was surprised to enjoy. But hey, when you break it down and a writer and director invest in their characters, and give the audience someone both to identify with and root for, the scares end up becoming more meaningful because a talented team of artists had invested in their work. That approach, it's going to resonate people. Here, the approach started off decent. I was at first sympathetic to the Mullins and their loss in the opening. Then, I briefly fell for the unlikely group of orphans moving into the Mullin's household. But as the characters remained flat stereotypes doing typical dumb things and the Mullins remained drab and uninteresting, and the cliched scares piled up, I ended up giving up. Some people say, you cannot review a film until you have completed it. Nah. If I lose interest in the characters, that is part of my viewing experience and this review is related to that aspect of seeing a film. When your characters are daft and bland and the scares are the only thing holding the movie together, you got nothing. There's no steak here, just the spice and that's no reason to keep watching a film. It's not a genuine entertaining experience, more an exercise in futility. Or rather, self-punishment. Watching uninspired characters do things done better in other films is no way to spend an evening. If you plan to be forgiving and shut off a critical part of your brain, sure, give this a whirl. Otherwise, there is better fare to explore. Like a plate of spice, this is not going to fill my appetite.