Movie Review: Annabelle Creation

Annabelle: Creation was a compilation of horror movie clichés all wrapped up into one movie. It befuddles me that this movie was positively reviewed since I don’t see any redeemable value to it except the final scene. It had a thin and weak plot. It had the double whammy of having both weak characterization, and characters that continually made one stupid decision after another—another horror movie cliché. Basically, what this movie tried to accomplish was to go really slow and quiet and then all of a sudden have a jump out of your seat scare moment where someone got dragged quickly or something popped out of nowhere. This movie was shallower and thinner than a communion wafer or a flatbread pizza for the non-religious folk out there.

It aggravates me that they took the best horror movie of the past twenty years—The Conjuring—and are trying to squeeze every last dollar out of it by making lousy spin-off movies. The very existence of this movie sullies The Conjuring. The basic premise here is a group of orphan girls from a Catholic charity live with a couple whose daughter had died in a tragic accident. Except the daughter hasn’t gone away completely. Her spirit or whatever is possessing her is wreaking vengeance on the orphans in an attempt to possess one of their souls. The only interesting thing that happened in this movie was that the final scene of the movie leads into the opening of the Annabelle movie. Skip this movie. Even for bad horror movies, this stands out.