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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Wendy Ide

Annabelle: Creation review – rampant silliness and some good scares

Annabelle: Creation
Annabelle: Creation’s orphans ‘insist on opening every sinister locked door’. Photograph: Warner Bros

Anyone who gets enraged by movies in which characters display a recklessly cavalier attitude to the forces of evil will be driven into a head-spinning fury by Annabelle: Creation. This prequel to the possessed doll series that started with The Conjuring features a toymaker whose creations seem expressly designed to chill the very soul, a demon locked in a cupboard and a load of winsome orphans who insist on opening every sinister locked door in their new home, an isolated house with a paint job the colour of sun-bleached bones. But if you can get past the utter, utter stupidity of pretty much everything every character does when faced with spooky peril, there are some effective scares here.

Watch a trailer for Annabelle: Creation.
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