Review of Annabelle: Creation (2017) by Moonman1994 — 23 Aug 2017

Annabelle: Creation does many things right and many things wrong. Starting with the things it did right the acting by the children in the movie is simply superb. They do a great job conveying a sense of terror to the viewer and when one of them eventually gets possessed by Annabelle's spirit she plays evil well and most importantly in a way that isn't campy.

Annabelle: Creation also manages to set the mood well. It never relies on the false dawn or it's-not-actually-the-monster tropes that many horror movies do and for this it deserves major props. This also helps keep you on edge the entire movie because you know that every time something goes wrong that it is Annabelle.

That being said the movie does fall into many horror movie trops/cliches. The first of which being that it relies far to heavily on jump scares and does to the point that by the half way point they don't really get you any more.

Also the film's presentation of the villain is only ok but I can't fault that because the movie is limited by its source material since it's a prequel. Lastly the ending is poor. It ends with the normal cliche false dawn of the monster not really being gone.

Once again it can't be faulted too much for this as it is a prequel but they could have easily made the wrap up more interest. All and all Annabelle: Creation is a solid Horror film but nothing special relying well on it's child actors to build tension but relying to heavily on horror tropes to be a breakout in the genre.