Thank you for this Movie Review recommendation! One of those movies where you say “have I seen this?” followed by “okay I’ve definitely seen this” which is then followed by “or wait…maybe not…”. You know the ones. So it’s one of those. Which is a lot like this Annabelle: Creation Movie Review which is going to end up looking a lot like every other Review very soon. It’s a very made-for-Netflix type of movie.
After losing his daughter in an unfortunate tire changing accident, a man opens his religious home to a group of orphan children and their helicopter-parenting nun. The children, who range in age from child to older child, are fascinated by the big house and invasions of privacy. One of the children, a victim of polio somehow, is menaced by the ghost of the girl who learned how to change a tire the bad way. This menacing includes forcing the hobbled girl to wander around the house late at night.
Things get pretty spooky when the inaccessible and forbidden room is suddenly welcoming new visitors. One of the girls finds her way in and is almost immediately created by the protagonist doll. In this context, the word ‘protagonist’ refers to a possessed conduit for a demonic force hungry to feed on the flesh of innocent preteens. At one point the girl is so scared she rides an electric chair down the stairs only to fall victim to some witchcraft resulting in a head-wound and a trip to the barn. That sentence will make sense if you watch the movie.
One by one the other orphan girls start to believe that things in the creepy house might not be as they seem. Even their guardian, the nun (wonder if there’s a correlation with the other Conjuring spin-off “The Nun” here…) starts to believe things are getting a little unusual when she discovers the disfigured and horrified corpse of the home owner. Spoiler alert! So one of the girls takes the doll to the well (The Ring?) and that solves nothing.
When the scarecrow comes to life you know things are about to get real. Even the older, boy-obsessed girls are freaked out when the creature made of straw gets involved in the haunting fun. The main possessed girl starts to really ramp up the aggression and eventually finds a weapon to chase her sisters-from-other-misters around the house. All of the calamity subsides when the exorcist-performing priest shows up and offers the now docile doll for the surviving children to play with. The girls are not amused by the offering especially since one of their brethren (but the female version of the word) is missing and is only later revealed to be at a different adoption center looking for a family to take her home.
And so summarizes the Annabelle: Creation Movie Review. Overall this movie was pretty good but I wouldn’t go out of your way to watch it. If you’re bored and have already seen everything else on Netflix, sure, go for it. But there are better movies like The Cabin in the Woods or you could always read another Things I Fear post like about Starbucks, Advertising or Cooking.
