Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.
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This character, created by James Wan, has received an incredible interest and we are now confronted with his second film. Annabelle, a side character in The Conjuring, seeks to show us how she was born this time. A business that benefits from Conjuring's atmosphere and deserves appreciation for its successful filmmakers. I would like to congratulate Talitha Bateman and Lulu Wilson, whom we can see more on television in the future. I can say that you should not approach with a better film and prejudice than the first film. It was not a very good movie for fear, but there were some scenes that were very good. I think it's worth watching and I recommend it to fans of horror.
Too many fake and cliched scares at first, but the film then soon turns really scary and disturbing, as you'd expect from 'The Conjuring' franchise. Evil knows no boundaries in this installment, as evil keeps haunting/hunting the children. The visual effects towards the end are really excellent. The child stars are very good. The sound effects were also really good. Stephanie Sigman was unfortunately not very convincing as Sister Charlotte. The children, especially Samara Lee and Lulu Wilson (who was also excellent in 'Ouija: Origin of Evil') carries the film. I enjoyed the setting in the big old farm house.
Alright, well first of all I can't claim to be much of a fan of the Annabelle doll, as I find it rather dull and not scary at all.And true to my assumptions, then "Annabelle: Creation", turned out to be not scary at all. But hey, didn't we all see that coming?It was sort of a very anti-climatic atmosphere to the entire movie, which took away any chance of building up a horror atmosphere. The entire storyline, however, was just so horribly predictable that it was laughable."Annabelle: Creation", however, does have some good enough acting performances and good castThe CGI and special effects in the movie were good, and that at least counted in favor of the movie.
Doll-maker Samuel Mullins and his wife lose their daughter Annabelle ("Bee") when she is hit by a car. 12 years later, they take in 6 orphan girls and their young supervisory nun when their orphanage closes. Polio victim Janice experiences strange occurrences at night, and it gradually transpires that something unspeakable may have happened to Bee after her death. If you're going to make a doll, why on earth would you make it so that it looks as creepy as possible? Because the one thing you can be sure of is that if a doll looks creepy, it IS creepy.I liked the main location here - one of those hot, arid farms where all they seem to farm is dust. And it was good to see Anthony LaPaglia and Miranda Otto playing parts which are a little off the beaten track for them. The youngsters are all fairly good, and the story meanders nicely on its way to setting up the events in Annabelle, itself a prequel to The Conjuring (which was not a prequel despite being followed by a sequel, The Conjuring 2). The destination is no surprise, but there is some interest in the view during the journey.It is, however, not even slightly horrific. There are sufficient loud noises etc. to make you jump fairly frequently, but that tends to be solely the result of a sudden assault on the senses, not because of anything inherently scary. Other than a creepy doll.