Review of Annabelle: Creation (2017) by Muldjord — 16 Jun 2018

There's some pretty decent scares in this movie, but that's just about all it has going for it and it quickly becomes a scare-fest with 30 sec daytime dialog scenes inbetween. Then cut to the next night and the next scare takes place. So you would sortof expect some sort of story to develop through that, but there's not really anything to grasp at here. And the scares don't make much sense. Is it the doll that's evil? Is it the girl? And why is the girl evil in the first place?

Well, you get an answer to that about halfway through the movie. The scene is about 1 minute long, and that's it. No more story, just more scares. So the entire story of this movie can pretty much be compress to 5 minutes. 4 minutes at the beginning and 1 minute halfway through. Other than that, just scare scene after scary scene.

It's not that the scenes by themselves aren't well done. But it's the lack of narrative progress between them that make it get old really quickly.

The only thing that differs is which girl gets exposed to the next scare and in what room it happens.

So I guess it's something like this: Until the nun have seen the demon, they aren't leaving the damn house. And because of that, **** keeps happening.