Review of Annabelle: Creation (2017) by Theredsky — 17 Jun 2019

This movie is vastly superior to the original. It’s not as good as The Conjuring 2 but it still provides enough story and good character development to get through. Some negatives of this film would be that 2 of the 6 child actors don’t do a great job and the editing does feel off at times.

Some of the cinematography isn’t great but it gets better. Towards the end of the film, it starts to become over reliant on jump scares. Other than that, the film is really good. The rest of the cast does an outstanding job especially the father.

The lighting is a significant improvement from both Conjuring movies and the original Annabelle film. Most of the cinematography is great with really nice tracking shots. Up until the last 45 minutes, the scares are effective and make you jump until it overuses this horror movie cliche.

The best part of this film for me is the death of the father. It makes you squirm watching all his fingers bend backwards and hearing the bones breaking when the demon emerges. The plot is great and you are able to understand everything that is going on, why it is happening, and most of the characters motivations.

The tone remains mostly consistent throughout the film. The film ends with the attack scene from the original Annabelle film which is always a nice touch. Overall, Annabelle: Creation succeeds in everything in the original film did wrong while boosting a stronger cast, improved scares, a much more believable story at the expense of bad child actors and an overuse of jumpscares.

I give an Annabelle a 7/10.