Annabelle: Creation Film Review - This One's a Bummer

So, you go to the theatre expecting to get the chills but come away unsatisfied. Annabelle: Creation doesn’t hold your interest as we find out in the Annabelle: Creation film review.

The plot of Annabelle: Creation isn’t entirely unconvincing. After girls from an orphanage move to live with the Mullins, they are explicitly told by Mr. Mullins to stay away from their daughter’s room. However, one of the girls, Janice (Talitha Bateman), ventures into the room and frees the accursed doll, Annabelle, after which all hell breaks loose. What is incredible though is that even after strange incidents start happening in the house, the girls stay put there.

Apart from this, the film is ill-paced. Initially, it drags and then towards the end things just happen in a rush. As far as the scares are concerned, there aren’t too many genuinely frightening moments, and you are so put off by the dumb plot that even the ones that are, don’t have any significant impact on you.

In Annabelle: Creation, the demonic presence is rather weak and doesn’t make the intended impression to sufficiently scare you. The acting is equally poor. Sister Charlotte played by Stephanie Sigman is so calm as she keeps uttering lines from the Bible all the while as crazy things are happening around her that it is almost a touch hilarious. Mr. Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia) is monotone throughout the movie, and Mrs. Mullins (Miranda Otto) is not there for half the movie until when she shows up with a mask partially covering her face. She could have been used more in the film.

As for the girls, there are just too many of them to focus on any one, and you don’t care much for any of them. Apart from Janice, the polio-stricken girl, who has the maximum screen presence, the others don’t have much to do in the movie.

All said and done, Annabelle: Creation is an amateurish horror flick. Hardcore horror fans will miss the high intensity scares and those looking for a well-crafted story will find nothing here. It’s best to wait for this one to hit Cable.