Twelve 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.
17 July 1996, USA
16 December 1967, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
14 January 1976, Morristown, New Jersey, USA
1987, Obregon, Sonora, Mexico
1984, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
8 October 1959
31 January 1959, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
7 November 1981, Jönköping, Sweden
8 July 1982, Alameda County, California, USA
August 14, 2017
Fans of these movies and their adjectival brethren, Insidious, Sinister and the like, know exactly what to expect and they get it here in spades, though sadly at the expense of internal logic and strong character work.
August 11, 2017
Has echoes of the original film, and works more with mood and less with cheap scares than either Annabelle or The Conjuring 2, resulting in a truly effective genre flick.
August 11, 2017
While the original Annabelle was a rather decent, well-crafted chiller, this one seems a bit more ham-fisted and less satisfying.
August 13, 2017
The set-up is promising, and it offers some decent early jump scares. But eventually the thinness of the material becomes overwhelmingly obvious.
August 11, 2017
It's proof that slower doesn't always mean better in horror.
August 14, 2017
As in Annabelle, the scares derived from the creepy-faced doll are more fun than the stuff about nebulous demonic possession.
August 14, 2017
Spooky, scary origin story...
August 14, 2017
The cast and production values lift it out of trope-heavy inanity.
August 14, 2017
The scares are nicely handled early on and director David F Sandberg breathes new life into hoary horror tropes. But the movie loses puff after an hour when it decides to show us the monster.
August 14, 2017
For the most part, though, things play out like horror-movie bingo.
August 11, 2017
It might not be another Conjuring, but [Annabelle: Creation] manages to channel the appeal of the franchise well enough to keep its blood flowing until the next installment.
August 11, 2017
Sandberg does nothing to update his horror film from some of the genre's more damaging stereotypes.
