Sandberg that they only show Annabelle when necessary - which is still pretty often - and as much as possible only in half-lit glimpses, while much more of the terrifying heavy-lifting is done by dark corners and eerily empty barns and little girls with unpleasantly serious expressions. And it's to the credit of screenwriter Gary Dauberman and director David F. It goes around the corner from 'dolls are inherently creepy' to 'well no, not that doll, that doll just looks fucking stupid'. The big one is a reduced emphasis on Annabelle itself: the doll prop, since its first appearance, has suffered from trying much too hard to look like some corrupt, vile, hell-spawned plaything, to the point that it's entirely impossible to take it seriously as a doll (the doll in the real-life story that inspired all of this folderol was nothing more eldritch than a Raggedy Ann there's an in-joke to that effect near the end of Creation). There are at least a couple of pretty straightforward reasons for this to be the case. It's not as good as The Conjuring, nor as good as The Conjuring 2 - a very definite familiarity has started to creep in concerning how plots in this shared universe are to be structured, and particularly to the rhythm by which they dole out their scares - but it's as satisfying as any horror film I've seen in 2017 (not a particularly impressive achievement, to be fair), and so much vastly superior to Annabelle that it hardly seems possible that they're in the same franchise. And given the repeated threats in the last couple of years that production companies Atomic Monster and New Line Cinema want to spin-off goddamn near every last paranormal entity we've seen in this series into its own standalone vehicle, it's not hard to go into Annabelle: Creation with the worst suspicions. The 2010s have produced only a scant number of horror movies more top-to-bottom objectionable than 2014's Annabelle, the flagrantly unnecessary prequel about an absurdly overdesigned haunted doll first seen in 2013's The Conjuring.

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