Review of Annabelle: Creation (2017) by Tbeit2 — 13 Aug 2017

I thought this movie was horrible. First off, it was very repetitive. After a decent set up, the film kept repeating itself with jump scares and boring imaginary for the whole second half of the movie. Most of the scares rely on loud annoying music and don't have much tension, especially because they never really give a scary atmosphere. The doll in this movie is also inconsistent, and here is where the spoilers start. The Doll is actually an evil spirit that is evil for reasons (just roll with it) and the thing has force powers, throwing one girl to the wall without touching her. It has claws and can teleport and be invisible, but they seem to forget any of this when it's convenient. Why does it chase down people when it can force choke them? Why doesn't it teleport behind them? Why doesn't it use its powers which basically emp'd the house on the girls? It doesn't make sense and breaks immersion. One hilarious moment is when one of the little girls is getting chased and hits the beast with a flashlight and the thing recoils in fear. It's hard to take seriously at that point.

The characters are also stupid. At some point, they just have to stop being stupid and going in places they know they shouldn't. For that matter, the family shouldn't have invited vulnerable little girls to there place when they have an evil spirit in there, which was well kept except for when a little girl with polio managed to get in.

I could go on. The film does the Aliens thing and doesn't let us see the demon for a while and keeps it dark to try to keep suspense, but it isn't suspenseful because the thing can be anything it **** wants to whenever the screenwriter demands it. When the polio girl gets thrown down the stairs, no one can hear her then but when she is getting attacked by the demon later in the shed they all hear her. They have a cool idea with the mother ringing the bell which added some tension, but they kept using it which got really annoying especially once it was established that the mother isn't the demon in any way. The demon is also **** at being a demon, he could have killed all of the little **** and gotten away with it but he didn't because the plot demanded it.

There were a few things I did like. Some of the camera work in the first half was nice with some nice religious imagery here and there (though they stop being subtle with it later on) and the relationship between the two girls is kind of touching,though they start ignoring that because of the scares and fail to develop how it affects the non demon girl.