Annabelle: Creation

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Annabelle: Creation

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2017

1h 49m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Former toy maker Sam Mullins and his wife, Esther, are happy to welcome a nun and six orphaned girls into their California farmhouse. Years earlier, the couple's 7-year-old daughter Annabelle died in a tragic car accident. Terror soon strikes when one child sneaks into a forbidden room and finds a seemingly innocent doll that appears to have a life of its own.

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Critics Consensus

Annabelle: Creation adds another strong chapter to the Conjuring franchise - and offers further proof that freaky-looking dolls remain reliably terrifying.

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Jake Wilson

Sydney Morning Herald

08/18/2017

2/5

Sometimes a creepy-looking doll is just a creepy-looking doll and no amount of repetition can make the sweet old song You Are My Sunshine even the slightest bit scary.

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Adam Nayman

The Ringer

08/17/2017

The film exists simply to get us somewhere we've already been, and so the level of invention in the storytelling declines right when it should be ramping up.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

08/15/2017

3/5

For the first two acts, while Annabelle: Creation concerns itself with little girls checking under beds and investigating things that go bump in the night, it's equal to James Wan's Conjuring films.

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Brian Bisesi

Horror Movie Club Podcast

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3.5/5

Annabelle: Creation is one of the scarier films in the The Conjuring Universe, but like other films in the franchise, it lacks both a compelling plot and compelling characters in the absence of the Warrens.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

08/19/2022

3.5/5

Sure, it will still feel very familiar, but I appreciated the practical effects over digital, the keen eye for tension-building, and the patient buildup.

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Fletcher Powell

KMUW - Wichita Public Radio

06/21/2022

It stops being fun and starts dwelling on pain.

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Big Red

07/21/2023

Good installment to the franchise

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Carl M

@ChrisC6190 Jan 8

This movie never seemed to hit where it was supposed to. In the end it was bland and boring. I found myself checking the time waiting for it to be over. No connection to any of the characters at all. The scares were cheap and predictable using the formula of slowly creep up the scare factor, pause to silence for a second while the character looks around, then big scare! It was just rinse and repeat the whole time. Also an extremely powerful demon capable of levitating people, throwing massive objects across the house, literally ripping people apart but then had to creep around the house with a knife incapable of killing some teenagers and was thrown into the closet by a nun single handedly. That doesn’t make a lot of sense for me. Overall for this being the big bad Annabelle origin story it did not hit at all.

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Leah B

@LeahB3 Dec 15

The tightening tension and atmospheric horror is perfect. Terrifying in the best way. Definitely nightmare fuel

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Devyn E.

@D3vynKad3 Dec 1

i’m not really into the possessed and devil type movies but this one really kept my interest and had really good scares.

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Daniel C

Nov 24

A well told story of how the Annabelle Doll was created and how it became evil. The story builds up nicely with plenty of good jump scares. Good creepy movie 🎥

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Kai K

Nov 2

This movie was horrible, it did not fit in to the the conjuring universe. This movie made me laugh at how bad it was. It was lame and over the top with no backstory or purpose.

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Synopsis

Former toy maker Sam Mullins and his wife, Esther, are happy to welcome a nun and six orphaned girls into their California farmhouse. Years earlier, the couple's 7-year-old daughter Annabelle died in a tragic car accident. Terror soon strikes when one child sneaks into a forbidden room and finds a seemingly innocent doll that appears to have a life of its own.

Director: David F. Sandberg
Producer: Peter Safran, James Wan
Screenwriter: Gary Dauberman
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Safran Company, Atomic Monster
Rating: R (Horror Violence and Terror)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 11, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 1, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $102.1M
Runtime: 1h 49m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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