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Annabelle: Creation

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Former toy maker Sam Mullins and his wife, Esther, are happy to welcome a nun and six orphaned girls into their California farmhouse. Years earlier, the couple's 7-year-old daughter Annabelle died in a tragic car accident. Terror soon strikes when one child sneaks into a forbidden room and finds a seemingly innocent doll that appears to have a life of its own.
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Annabelle: Creation adds another strong chapter to the Conjuring franchise - and offers further proof that freaky-looking dolls remain reliably terrifying.

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Jake Wilson Sydney Morning Herald Sometimes a creepy-looking doll is just a creepy-looking doll and no amount of repetition can make the sweet old song You Are My Sunshine even the slightest bit scary. Rated: 2/5 Aug 18, 2017 Full Review Adam Nayman The Ringer The film exists simply to get us somewhere we've already been, and so the level of invention in the storytelling declines right when it should be ramping up. Aug 17, 2017 Full Review Tara Brady Irish Times For the first two acts, while Annabelle: Creation concerns itself with little girls checking under beds and investigating things that go bump in the night, it's equal to James Wan's Conjuring films. Rated: 3/5 Aug 15, 2017 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies Sure, it will still feel very familiar, but I appreciated the practical effects over digital, the keen eye for tension-building, and the patient buildup. Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 19, 2022 Full Review Fletcher Powell KMUW - Wichita Public Radio It stops being fun and starts dwelling on pain. Jun 21, 2022 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review While defusing laughter often accompanies this sort of material, it's best employed when we're not laughing at the film. Rated: 2/4 Mar 22, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Big Red Good installment to the franchise Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/21/23 Full Review stefan C Scarriest doll ever! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/06/25 Full Review Starla R This movie is garbage! Again, the ratings on here for this movie are way off the mark, it should get a zero across the board...but that just shows the intelligence level of movie goers nowadays ( just look at how they make excuses for bad movies on reddit lol). New Line Cinema is known to use cheap scares, lazy writing, lack of creativity, and making movies only for cash grabs. That is what Annabelle creation embodies. It's a joke. The story makes no sense and the characters are dumb, blind, and neglectful. How was that incompetent nun ever allowed to watch over children?! Or the fact the no one ever hears Janice scream or see her being pushed into a barn by a demon, which happened only yards from them. When the audience is left having to make up their own explanations of how things happened (talking about you, reddit fanboys) ,that's a sign of terrible writing. And the fact they make a poor orphan child suffer through being possessed only to make her then murder her adopted parents, then kill herself, just so they can connect the storyline to the first Annabelle, because they messed it up, is really disgusting and cruel. New Line Cinema aka Warner Brothers, is just another example of a Hollywood studio that cares more about making money any way they can, then about making decent movies. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/23/25 Full Review matthias s "Annabelle: Creation" gets a slight upgrade from the disaster that was the first film, but let’s not kid ourselves—this doll still isn’t delivering peak nightmare fuel. I went in with rock-bottom expectations, curious about the doll’s backstory, and yeah, it’s kinda cool to finally see the origin. Problem is, the story is paper-thin and drags itself out with way too much filler. This could’ve been a sharp, 80-minute scare ride, but instead it lumbers along, painfully predictable, and honestly… not scary at all. Compared to The Conjuring, it doesn’t even belong in the same haunted house. Still, it’s a step up from its predecessor—boring at times but watchable. Decent for curiosity’s sake, but definitely flawed. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/21/25 Full Review Brandon M Not bad, but the cast needs to be older. Children just do not have the acting skills to be the stars in horror movies Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 09/20/25 Full Review Ryan M Watching these for the first time in chronological order and I have to say this was much better than the nun. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/15/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Former toy maker Sam Mullins and his wife, Esther, are happy to welcome a nun and six orphaned girls into their California farmhouse. Years earlier, the couple's 7-year-old daughter Annabelle died in a tragic car accident. Terror soon strikes when one child sneaks into a forbidden room and finds a seemingly innocent doll that appears to have a life of its own.
Director
David F. Sandberg
Producer
Peter Safran, James Wan
Screenwriter
Gary Dauberman
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co
Safran Company, Atomic Monster
Rating
R (Horror Violence and Terror)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 11, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 1, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$102.1M
Runtime
1h 49m
Sound Mix
Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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